No IKEA summer sale this year (2015)
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Comments (49)Hi defrost…another early bird. :-) I'm adding to my houseplant collection this winter, which is pretty depleted. Some winters, I just have no interest, but this year I do, probably because this summer my garden time was minimal. Right now, I have some succulents that need repotting and I'm looking for decorative, ceramic probably. I'm going to try to find some shallow pots in a small to medium size for now. I have larger ceramic pots, but they seem like the wrong shape and size. By the way, if anyone knows who sells the best houseplants, besides Logee's in CT, because I haven't got time to take a trip there. I usually end up at Russell's and I stay away from Mahoney's, so I'm looking for somewhere new to try....See MoreSecret Santa Seed Swap 2015 ( 8th year)
Comments (641)Wilsha, I love your beautiful card with the little chickadee sitting on a snowy branch and surrounded by red berries. I really appreciate your words of encouragement! gardengirl37232, thank you for the beautiful card depicting the magic of Christmas with animals of all sorts, predators and prey, at peace with one another. I'll enjoy growing the oregano for my new herb garden. xiangirl, thank you for the sweet card with Santa holding an armful of greenery and wishing "Merry Christmas!" Thank you as well for including packets of two of your favorites -- Gaillardia 'Lemon Queen' and Allium nigrum. Both of those will be welcome additions to my garden! canyonwind, I love the brightly colored card with the festive snowman. I appreciate the good wishes as well. Thank you for the seeds too -- Nigella sativa and one that I must have lost the label from. It will be a fun surprise when it grows! tessie83856, thank you for the beautiful card with the snowy exterior of a home, showing the wreath on the front door, Christmas tree, and sled. An old-fashioned Christmas for sure! I'm delighted with the seeds you shared as well -- California poppies and Salvia 'Coral Nymph.' Diknownana, what a precious card with the little girl carrying a basket of goodies, likely to a friend, and accompanied by her dog and cat. I appreciate the gift of seeds as well -- Gaillardia 'Tokajer,' Celosia 'Forest Fire,' Dianthus 'Cheddar Pinks,' and Agastache 'Apache Sunset.' All of those are perfect for my garden! lorabell, your card is just beautiful! It's red with metallic gold framing a grapevine wreath entwined with poinsettias and holly and the single word "Joy." I'll enjoy all of the seeds you included -- Chrysanthemum 'Cockade,' Poached Eggs 'Spanish Omlette mixed, and Gypsophila ' Elegant Rose.' Thank you! nottougly, I love the pretty card with red and green ornaments and a bit of sparkle. I had some ornaments similar to those with the indentions until my boys pushed on the center of a couple to see what would happen. There are two left, and I'll leave one to each someday. Thank you for the seeds of Marigold 'Moonsong Orange.' I love marigolds, and they do really well in our hot, dry summers when so many flowers give up. redthreaddiy, what a sweet card with the little boy trudging through the snow carrying a wreath with a big red bow and followed by his puppy! You really gave my herb garden a big boost with seeds for lemon balm, thyme, dill, parsley 'Green Pearl,' fenugreek, Christmas basil, fennel, and catnip, which one of my cats discovered this morning and tried to abscond with the baggie! She thanks you, as do I ....I'll have to grow the catnip in a protected spot for sure!...See MoreRoses Unlimited Summer Sale thru 6/14/17
Comments (71)Lily I made a mistake about the thistles. I have two kinds, Canada Thistle and Purple thistle. The latter is the kind that grows 10 feet tall, has really thick stalks like pokeweed and puts out those big spikey purple "flowers." Canada is the lower spreading kind that over takes lawns. Both are very invasive though. Thanks Virginia, I hadn't heard of that one but will check it out. I've tried various weed gadgets and even torches, but thistle have obnoxiously deep roots and if you don't get it all it's a waste of time.... like pokeweed and docks. At my other place, which was brown clay, it was a little easier to dig weeds, but here I'm red clay on rock. Being in the foothills of the mountains gives me the rocky layers with a helping of that famous bright orange Carolina red clay on top. Hard as cement when dry, sticky as glue when wet. When the excavation team was here for some work, I was surprised at the boulders and rocks they unearthed. Very pretty though and the smaller ones, wagon to barrel sized, are in front of the house as my bed edges. Big bed edges...lol! The larger ones were used to shore up an old bridge on the lower part of the property. I have to cross a year around creek to get up my driveway and had a new bridge installed along with re-contouring the drive, but saved the old bridge for backup. I digress... the Canada thistle is mostly a nuisance for the moment. Hundreds in what would be the "yard" area and I mow them for now. The purple thistles are the ones I'm trying to keep from going to seed. They are dotted all over my acres, like you would see in an unkempt pasture. All those neat idealistic pictures of yellow finches sitting atop a huge purple thistle flower are pretty to look at, until you see the wickedness of the rest of the plant. I haven't mentioned my clay rock base much because I guess I don't really think about it. I've already learned how to make my own good soil with composting layers and have been doing my gardens that way for years. The concept of digging into typical ground and just plopping a plant in is a foreign concept to me. A pile of horse, goat, chicken, or alpaca manure is pure brown gold to me. Hmm... I'm not sure what that says about me.... Fancy new shoes and a designer handbag or a pile of compost?? Um, compost please!...See MoreIKEA'S 25 year warranty - fact or fiction?
Comments (64)I am so unhappy that I ever trusted IKEA for my whole kitchen, and even more upset that I referred them to friends. And to JJ Cape on Cape, I have no idea how to directly respond to you since your posts are from 2 years ago, but I would love to know what happened since I currently have the same problem you faced back then. The warranty in my personal opinion is as good as if it were written on piece of toilet paper. First of all, I have their Adel, or Akurum cabinet doors. The exact same thing happened to me. The cabinet door below the sink started to expand eventually and peel. There was no flooding in my home, and I am not near any body of water. Even though I had a 25 year warranty, I was more than willing to pay for another door at my own expense just to avoid the anticipated aggravation that IKEA would cause if I had to turn to their warranty department. Well, let me tell you, all my worst fears were justified. They decided to just stop making the Adel cabinet doors, and any company that makes one like it is 3/4 inch thick while the original Adel is 5/8 inch thick. How can they justify a 25 year warranty and just stop manufacturing the product they are supposed to cover. Had I known that I never would have purchased a kitchen from them. Here is the run-around I got from IKEA. First email to them I explain the damages, and send proof of purchase and photos of the damages, with all my contact information. I wait home all day for a phone call, but they never call. I called them the next day only to get told the case was closed because I didn't answer their phone calls or send any photos or documents. So a new case was opened and it was round two of the same run-around I got the first time. Then a 3rd case was opened with another associate, but this time I asked her to forward my email to them since they ignored the emails that came directly from me. Just got off the phone with them today and was told that their so called "warranty" does not cover water damage. The associate refused to send me anything in writing today, and added that she couldn't help me and was only reading off what they said. She refused to give me any person I could contact to escalate the matter. She also had a very condescending attitude and really couldn't care less. There was a big fat zero degree of customer satisfaction. I am not sure what my next steps will be, but I would love to hear from anyone else that had similar complaints with IKEA. As a final thought, one of their responses to my email about the damaged cabinet door that in my opinion should be covered under warranty was that I might be able to take care if with an Allen Wrench! (And then they closed the case)....See MoreAdam Harlan
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