Florist or flowershop?

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Mrs.Green wrote: Mon Jan 25, 2021 9:34 am <…> unfortunately their cacti quite often come with their own pets or pests <…>
Each new plant is potentially with bugs.
There's a rule to free each new plant from old soil and care it from the top to the end of the roots with insenticide as it's already with pets/pests without referring to it's origin. Anyway I have some plants from Plantagen (TM here) and all of them are very healthy and nice.
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anttisepp wrote: Mon Jan 25, 2021 11:09 am
Mrs.Green wrote: Mon Jan 25, 2021 9:34 am <…> unfortunately their cacti quite often come with their own pets or pests <…>
Each new plant is potentially with bugs.
There's a rule to free each new plant from old soil and care it from the top to the end of the roots with insenticide as it's already with pets/pests without referring to it's origin. Anyway I have any plants from Plantagen (here) and all of them are very healthy and nice.
It wan’t my intention to downtalk Plantasjen as I have encountered this fenomen ( bugs) in many shops. Regardless of origin, I do expect pestridden plants to be spottet and dealt with, not coming back a month later and see the same plants still there. Only difference is that the bugs have doubled in numbers.

As already mentioned, I think part of the problem in many ‘specialist’ shops are that the staff don’t know enough about the ‘products’ they are selling. As an example; I once visited a petshop where they had only four species of birds for sale, all very common as pets. I asked the staff about the price for one of the species and the reply was; can you show me which of them are the birds you are asking about.. When dealing with live ‘products’ I think its crucial that the staff has at least basic knowledge of their care and needs. Personally I think the buyer should read a lot about the species they buy BEFORE they buy it, but as we know, it doesn’t work that way and therefore its important that the staff can guide the buyers.

Back to Plantasjen again; I have bought a lot of plants from them too and obviously, if I wasn’t very happy about their ‘products’ I wouldn’t have done that :)
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One Windowsill wrote: Sun Jan 24, 2021 8:01 pm As a noun, a "floral" may mean a fabric with a flowery design or a dancer at the Roman festival called Floralia, in honour of the goddess of flowers, Flora.

Perhaps Ruth is a pagan.
Perhaps she is and I should stop in for a chat..I come from Wales and my DNA says 15 percent Viking...probably due to their incursions into the southern parts of England.

But there might also be some pagan or Druid blood in me since Sir Winston Churchill was a member of the Ancient Order of Druids in Britain....and is a cousin, my 9th cousin once removed.

After all my favorite pagan holiday is the Winter Solstice...mainly for the 2 minutes of daylight returning daily until mid summer.

Queen Victoria is also a cousin ( through Sir John Stewart's lineage )...but I don't believe she was a pagan.
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Steve-0 wrote: Mon Jan 25, 2021 4:28 pm Queen Victoria is also a cousin ( through Sir John Stewart's lineage )...but I don't believe she was a pagan.
Queen Victoria is claimed to have the god Woden (Odin/Wotan) as an ancestor, from the lineage of Alfred the Great.
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One Windowsill wrote: Mon Jan 25, 2021 8:00 pm
Steve-0 wrote: Mon Jan 25, 2021 4:28 pm Queen Victoria is also a cousin ( through Sir John Stewart's lineage )...but I don't believe she was a pagan.
Queen Victoria is claimed to have the god Woden (Odin/Wotan) as an ancestor, from the lineage of Alfred the Great.

Fascinating! Learning something new everyday.
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Most Brits if they go back far enough can trace their ancestry to so called Royals. However the DNA obtained from King John's body when they exhumed it from under a Leicester car park where he had died in battle proved Victoria and her line were not related to the original kings of England.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... n-ancestry

Also as Victoria married a German some claim Britain's Royalty has a better claim to the German throne that to the British one. It was also claimed an Australian who died a few years ago from his DNA had a better claim to the British Throne than the present incumbents had.

Nearly everybody in Italy is a Count of some kind therefore it depends how far removed from the central Royal line you need to be to become just plan Mr and Mrs again since in theory all humans came from the same original source therefore we are all distantly related.

https://www.theguardian.com/whats-in-yo ... o-consider

Another myth people like to sell us is a family Coat of Arms, particularly American Web sites, when there is usually no such thing. Coats of arms or Armorial Bearings were usually only issued to individuals and not families therefore died with them. A family in it's history can have quite a few individuals who had their own Coat of Arms and if you want to pay you can buy your own personal one.

https://www.thoughtco.com/family-coats-of-arms-1422009

Basically these days modern Coats of Arms are meaningless since even firms can have them, no need to display your prowess on the battlefield.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13127328
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This thread strayed a liiitle bit away from the original topic but a big thank you to everybody and DaveW especially. :) Very interesting facts and thoughts about the heritage, not only the royals but also the mere commoners. I see that in one of the links DaveW posted false paternity is guessed to be only 1-2 %. I have a feeling thats a very low estimate..or maybee we in Norden/Scandinavia are a bit mor into spreading our genes? ;) Estimates I have seen earlier suggests about 10 % uncertain paternity.

Antiisepp; about Plantagen; you wrote (TM here) what does TM stands for?
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Mrs.Green wrote: Fri Jan 29, 2021 10:35 am Very interesting facts and thoughts about the heritage, not only the royals but also the mere commoners. I see that in one of the links DaveW posted false paternity is guessed to be only 1-2 %. I have a feeling thats a very low estimate..or maybee we in Norden/Scandinavia are a bit mor into spreading our genes? ;) Estimates I have seen earlier suggests about 10 % uncertain paternity.
Why breed heirs if you can get your servants to do it for you?
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One Windowsill wrote: Fri Jan 29, 2021 7:05 pm
Mrs.Green wrote: Fri Jan 29, 2021 10:35 am Very interesting facts and thoughts about the heritage, not only the royals but also the mere commoners. I see that in one of the links DaveW posted false paternity is guessed to be only 1-2 %. I have a feeling thats a very low estimate..or maybee we in Norden/Scandinavia are a bit mor into spreading our genes? ;) Estimates I have seen earlier suggests about 10 % uncertain paternity.
Why breed heirs if you can get your servants to do it for you?
Exactly! :D That’s the reason I personally don’t find genealogy very interesting. The idea of it is interesting but there is far to much uncertainess in such a research in my opinion. If you can’t be sure , why bother?
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These days paternity is easily settled by a DNA test, but it is noticeable many so called "Royals" do not want to take one!
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DaveW wrote: Mon Feb 01, 2021 10:26 am These days paternity is easily settled by a DNA test, but it is noticeable many so called "Royals" do not want to take one!
In light of a rather well known recent event- I don’t think the ‘Royals’ DNA are what should concern them most..a shocking lack of furniture in the top floor is a much bigger reason for concern..in my point of view..
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