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  • #16
    Ooooh, cheese plants!!! They were in the back of my mind all along but I couldn't quite picture or place them!

    Great suggestions everyone

    Claire
    I was feeling part of the scenery
    I walked right out of the machinery
    My heart going boom boom boom
    "Hey" he said "Grab your things
    I've come to take you home."

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    • #17
      Originally posted by Alexx View Post
      When i think of the 50s i imagine aspidistra plants.

      I have a 50s piano in the house if that's any good
      What sort of Aspidistra is a 50s piano?

      I split my Aspidistra plant up a few weeks ago and now I've got 7 of 'em. Trouble is I can't bring myself to throw any of them away.
      Anybody want one (or two, or three)?
      I you'st to have a handle on the world .. but it BROKE!!

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      • #18
        Busy Lizzies, coleus, begonia rex, mother in laws tongue, cacti, spider plant, tradescantia (that's definately the one) known as wandering sailor or wandering jew (are we allowed to say that) . For me that epitomises the period.

        From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

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        • #19
          While we are on a nostalgia trip what about those awful porcelain shire horses with carts??? Everyone had one!
          Never see those any more......wonder whether there's any left....probably pop up as collectors items!

          PS Just looked again at this...must have been in irrelevant mode last night! eek
          Last edited by Snadger; 23-06-2007, 08:12 AM.
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          to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

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          • #20
            A chap I know of reasonable vintage stated to me that the only plants he grew during the 60's had leaves growing in bunches of three and thrived in the airing cupboard... He spent a lot of time on Eel Pie Island as well...
            Let's go diggin' dirt....

            Big silver bird, come land low and slow
            Cut your engines, cool your wings,
            You've taken me home...

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            • #21
              Snadger, all the china horses with wooden carts ever made are currently gracing the bay window of one of my neighbours!

              Madmax... perhaps NOT!

              Claire
              I was feeling part of the scenery
              I walked right out of the machinery
              My heart going boom boom boom
              "Hey" he said "Grab your things
              I've come to take you home."

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              • #22
                We always had African Violets in pots in our house. We also always had a rubber plant which stood in a corner for yesrs doing nothing but it did grow very tall eventually. Spider plants, tradascanthia, umbrella plants and ferns. Thats my memories anyway.

                And when your back stops aching,
                And your hands begin to harden.
                You will find yourself a partner,
                In the glory of the garden.

                Rudyard Kipling.sigpic

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                • #23
                  My mum always had African VIolets but no other house plants but then Dad did have 5 greenhouses full of other stuff
                  Last edited by nick the grief; 24-06-2007, 05:46 PM.
                  ntg
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                  A large group of professionals built the Titanic
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