"Bye Jove He's Got It".

A bag of cheap discount supermarket daffodils.

I never thought any of our lads would become obsessed with gardening like yours truly and me, myself and I.

Number 2 son moved a couple of hours away last year.

We weren't happy bunnies and it's the same feeling most parents have to experience and all little birds have to fly the nest some time.

One day we visited them and somehow I was talked into digging off a big border of gravel courtesy of a borrowed shovel from next door and pulling up a big sheet of polythene.  The gravel was deposited on top of gravel on another border.

I pulled out any weeds and was impressed with the rich and fertile soil.  He was going to make a flower garden.

I visited him again and gave him the left over plants from a close by car boot sale we had just visited.  Then we arranged them on the border and guess who got the job of planting them?

He also bought bedding plants and a rose tree and we gave him some more plants.  Especially my Cape Daisies and Shasta Daisies.  Daisies are my plant autograph and you always know when I have planted up a garden.  It will contain my Daisies. 

He purchased some ornamental bark and a lot of his neighbours commented on his 'new' garden and how they would like a garden like it.

He's actually taken an interest in gardening and he even grew lettuce in a hanging basket.

I can't persuade him to put his name down for an allotment yet but he does want to container garden next year and grow vegetables.

Now we text each other about his garden and the latest plant offers in Aldi or Lidl.

I told him he could get a big bag of daffodils from Lidl for ten Euros.  

The other day he drove home and presented me with a quarter of a bag of daffodils.  He said he'd got tired planting his ones.

I have planted them in one of my old decking plank raised beds.

When I was planting them I thought:

"Bye Jove He's Got It!"

At least one of our lads like gardening!