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Dissapearing window boxes in Bray

  • 14-12-2011 05:05PM
    #1
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,232 ✭✭✭✭


    Does anyone know what happened the window boxes in Bray? - they have all disappeared from a lot of the shops

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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  • #2
    PseudoFamous
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭PseudoFamous


    mango salsa wrote: »
    Does anyone know what happened the window boxes in Bray? - they have all disappeared from a lot of the shops

    Plants don't grow in winter, they wither and die, so they take window boxes down. The brackets are probably still up.


  • #3
    Ophiopogon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,189 ✭✭✭Ophiopogon


    Yeah I would presume they are brought in by the council for safe keeping/ maintenance etc.

    Wait till the spring and if they are not back than they have run out of money altough I don't see that happening.


  • #4
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 21,529 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    PseudoFamous wrote: »
    Plants don't grow in winter, they wither and die, so they take window boxes down. The brackets are probably still up.
    Not all plants die in the winter .. there are some colourful flowering plants that will grow in window boxes at this time of the year such as cyclamen and winter pansies like I have just outside of my front door right now.


  • #5
    Calibos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭Calibos


    Alun wrote: »
    Not all plants die in the winter .. there are some colourful flowering plants that will grow in window boxes at this time of the year such as cyclamen and winter pansies like I have just outside of my front door right now.

    .....sheltered from the Winter gales by your house or hedge or garden wall etc. I'd say the council/shops don't want to be sweeping up compost, shredded plants and pieces of broken planters that have blown down from their exposed positions every other week.


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