31 - March 11, 2009 10:12 pm

Name:

Don

Location:

California

Comments:

Great Page

32 - March 11, 2009 10:09 pm

Name:

Private

Location:

Private

Comments:

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33 - January 26, 2009 10:29 am

Name:

Sofia

Location:

Texas

Comments:

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Reply: Hi! Nice to hear from you & thanks for signing my guestbook! Had to remove your link as it wasn't appropriate, sorry!

34 - October 31, 2008 7:06 am

Name:

sean Cunningham

Location:

coleraine

Comments:

Thanks for an informative site. I am new to exotics and was finding it difficult to get info on plants for NI. Your site was a god send. I tried to e-mail you for further advise but it failed to go.

Reply: Hi Sean,
Thanks for the positive comments! You have to remove the 'IHATESPAM' from the email address provided by the 'email me' link - sorry about this but it's a necessity otherwise I will get bombarded with junk mail!

35 - October 15, 2008 2:25 am

Name:

Jyothi

Location:

India

Comments:

Hi
Your websites is the best one, its not easy to do such a wonderful work.

Reply: Thanks for the comments! Had to remove the link as I didn't feel it was appropriate, sorry!

36 - August 5, 2008 8:44 pm

Name:

Gregg Stelzer

Location:

Winston-Salem,North Carolina, USA

Comments:

Just happened to find your web site and I thought that your plants are fantastic! We are a bit colder in the winter than your area, but we do grow about 90% of the exotics that you grow. Our HOT and Humid summers do give the plants a healthy shot of growth. I was surprised not to see some Fatsia Japonica growing in your garden, although not a palm, quite tropical looking and is very popular in North Carolina as an accent plant near palms. I enjoyed every pic of your wonderful plantings! Bye Y'all Gregg Stelzer

Reply: Hi Gregg, I've been to South (not North unfortunately!) Carolina in summer and I know all about the heat & humidity! Saw lots of palms there though, mostly hardier species such as sabals. Could use some of your hot weather right now! Oh BTW I do have a fatsia :-)

37 - January 5, 2008 7:55 pm

Name:

Surfing

Location:

USA

Comments:

You have an awesome web site, Thanks for allowing me to sign your guest book. To the evangelist, pastors, teachers, and other outreach workers, who have been looking for material to win souls and build church growth, go to fishingforsouls.com where you can print over 135 English (KJV) & Spanish (RVR) Tracts online for FREE. God Bless.

38 - February 3, 2007 5:07 pm

Name:

Philip McErlean

Location:

Belfast

Comments:

Very impressed with your plantings and very envious of the Jubaea in particular! (Must update my own web pages, having seen yours - too ashamed to give the URL!)
Philip

Reply: Hey Philip, I've seen your site and it's not half bad :-) nice trachies.....

39 - July 29, 2006 12:40 pm

Name:

Brian Lowe

Location:

Larne,County Antrim

Comments:

40 - March 18, 2006 1:25 pm

Name:

Eileen Calder

Location:

north belfast

Comments:

I was looking at your exotic plants pages thinking I was looking at plants grown in Florida or at least the south of England imagine my shock when I realised where you are. It has been very inspirational. I have a very small garden but am very fond of tropical looking plants. Thankyou

Reply: Hi Eileen,
Glad you enjoyed my site, hope the info was useful!

41 - January 7, 2006 8:42 am

Name:

Jacques RAJADE

Location:

Montferrier sur lez 34980 France

Comments:

Hi Gavin,
Try to use the email of your site, but it does not work
Please email me your new email
Thanks
Best wishes for 2006
Jacques

Reply: Bonjour Jacques, et meilleurs voeux pour 2006! Il faut supprimer 'IHATESPAM'

42 - January 4, 2006 3:36 pm

Name:

Gavin McCormick

Location:

Belfast

Comments:

Just upgraded my guestbook, entries will once again appear immediately. The new version incorporates some protection against abuse of this facility. Go on, sign it, you know you want to....

43 - December 21, 2005 6:23 pm

Name:

Private

Location:

Private

Comments:

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44 - September 19, 2005 10:48 am

Name:

Janine

Location:

Jersey

Comments:

Great to read of your enthusiasm, I'm on the same route as you, but perhaps a little luckier with the climate?! I agree that it is the winter wet that gets them in the end. Have you tried any of the Cordylines?

Reply: Hi Janine,
Yes the Channel Islands must have one of the best climates in the British Isles! We're not too far behind here though, probably losing out more on summer heat if anything. I have a few cordylines (they were the first exotics I grew). Cordylines are everywhere here & I would personally like to see some true palms becoming more widespread too!

45 - August 10, 2005 7:02 am

Name:

Andy Queen

Location:

Bangor County Down

Comments:

Hi there Gav, excellent to here of another Palmaholic here in Norin Iron.
Great Website and great Garden.

You are more than welcome to visit my place in Sunny Bangor.

King Regards Andy.

Reply: Great to hear from you Andy! I may take you up on that when I get a chance! You garden looks very impressive from the pics I've seen :-)

Update (Oct 08): Having now seen your garden Andy I can say that photos on an internet site don't do it justice. You are welcome to visit my place also!

46 - July 9, 2005 10:35 am

Name:

ady

Location:

Comments:

i enjoyed my 10minutes of browsing the site, not sure how i got here tho=|

47 - June 25, 2005 4:06 pm

Name:

Gavin McCormick

Location:

Belfast

Comments:

OK... My ISP have launched a new CGI platform which should have corrected the previous problems. This entry has appeared, therefore it must be working! Once again, if your entry was lost due to the previous disaster, could I ask you to re-sign it.
Many thanks :-)
G

48 - April 22, 2005 9:11 pm

Name:

Pamela

Location:

New York

Comments:

I just came across this website and was fascinated by the section on exotic gardening. I just love palm trees but I don't seem to be able to grow one - perhaps my window box just isn't big enough? Or maybe the winters here are too cold? Do you think I should try to wrap my electric blanket round my tree on cold nights??
I look forward to hearing from you. Keep up the good work !;)

Reply: Hi sis!!

49 - April 15, 2005 6:53 pm

Name:

G. McCORMICK

Location:

Belfast

Comments:

IMPORTANT NOTICE
My ISP has let me down badly by losing all of the data of their CGI server. I had a backup but it's 4 months old :-(
So I have lost all guestbook entries entered since about mid-Dec. If you signed my guestbook since then would you be so good as to sign it again?

Thanks & sorry for the inconvenience.
Gavin

50 - December 3, 2004 5:34 pm

Name:

Jonathan Bacon

Location:

Glasgow

Comments:

Thanks for your tranasmitter info. I am thinking of setting up an aeriel system in Girvan in Ayrshire with a view to receiving digital Freeview signals from Divis. Will a Group A aeriel be sufficient for Freeview as well as analogue? When I lived in Ardrossan in Scotland I use to be able to pick up the Divis transmiiter (analogue) if I pointed the aeriel toards N.Ire (over the horizon) when weather conditions were good. PS Good to see you are part of the met Tab - God Bless , Jonathan

Reply: Hi Jonathan,
A group A aerial may get some of the digital/freeview channels from Divis, however some of the channels use different parts of the band. I don't have freeview but I think they recommend a group E or W or something. These are more wideband aerials which means less gain. Also the transmitted power is much lower for digital so you will probably need a bigger aerial to get it in Scotland, if at all... best of luck!
Great to hear you've heard of the 'Met', you're not by any chance in any way associated with a certain sister church of ours... ?? :-)

51 - October 23, 2004 4:41 am

Name:

Jay

Location:

Kelowna BC

Comments:

Love your palm pics and hardiness info. =)

52 - October 17, 2004 11:05 am

Name:

Martin

Location:

Penrith (Cumbria)

Comments:

Nice site, Gavin, plenty to inspire!
Found it via the webcam on metcheck.com
Good use of frames (for some reason some people regard that as a bad thing - not me!)
All the best ...=)

53 - September 27, 2004 5:53 am

Name:

john

Location:

uk

Comments:

nice one just starting.. cheers=)

54 - September 20, 2004 3:01 pm

Name:

Robin sheeran

Location:

Ballyclare, Co Antrim

Comments:

Gavin

Your house must be fairly bristling with dishes. I wonder if I could ask you for a few words of advice. I have been trying to access Slovak and Czech radio stations on my Sky digibox. I've managed to get them up on "other channels" but the audio quality is appalling (partly due to the dreadful weather). I presume this is because my bog standard Sky dish is too small. Is the standard Sky dish for Northern Ireland 80cm? I haven't been up there to measure it. Would swapping it for a 1m dish make much difference? I wouldn't want to spend money on this and find I still couldn't get the radio stations I want. Is there any way of checking? Finally, do you know of anyone in these parts who could supply/fit a bigger dish? Apologies for peppering you with all these questions.
Regards
Robin Sheeran

Reply: Hi Robin,
Thanks for signing my gb. Standard sky dish for NI is 60cm. This is fine for sky but I think the Czech/Slovak channels are on a different beam which doesn't cover the UK so well. So if you're getting video/audio breakup (esp. in poor weather) I think the answer would be a bigger dish, although some of these channels can just have poor audio to begin with! Check the Astra website which should give you some idea as to the size of dish required, I would have thought at least 1m. Not sure about dish suppliers in NI, I mail-ordered mine...

55 - September 13, 2004 9:21 am

Name:

Dieter FELLNER

Location:

USA

Comments:

Hello,

Found the site searching for information on Satellite. My
wife and I are moving to England and want to keep up with
some of the US TV programmes. I have not the faintest idea
where to start...... =( Any suggestions would be wonderful.
Thanks in advance ! Best wishes

Reply: Hi Dieter,
You won't be able to get US channels directly from US satellites as these will be over the horizon in England. The main satellite package in the UK is Sky Digital, which offers "some" of the major US channels (CNN, Fox news, etc), not all of them available without subscription. If you were to get a system capable of receiving multiple satellites (such as a motorised dish) you would get some more choice. Of course if you're mainly interested in the usual US progs like the Simpsons etc, you'll find most of these on sky and on some British terrestrial channels...

56 - September 6, 2004 3:59 pm

Name:

residence corse

Location:

corsica

Comments:

bon travail continuez !

un visiteur de corse

Reply: Merci de votre visite et de vos remarques...

57 - August 13, 2004 7:58 am

Name:

Private

Location:

Private

Comments:

View private message (Admin only).

58 - August 4, 2004 11:40 pm

Name:

Ralph &Patsy Quinn

Location:

Australia

Comments:

Hello Jim Mc Connell we have been watching your progress over the years and some of your staff alough a number would not remember
us as the founders members. the Lord has been good to us all over the years. continue the good work your fellow workers in the masters service
Ralph&Patsy quinn.

59 - July 28, 2004 9:09 am

Name:

Geary Mandrapilias

Location:

Charlotte, NC, USA

Comments:

Found you by accident...looking for info on Opuntia 'Green Burst'. Know anything about it? I'm zone 7b.but have a green house if nescesary.I'm there are folks like you who seem to have time to garden and do computers!

Reply: Hi Geary,
Sorry I don't know too much about the opuntias. I'm just trying cacti for the first time as garden plants - the ones I've planted are supposedly hardy throughout the UK (roughly zones 7b-9b). I expect they won't appreciate our moist winters too much, so perhaps very well-drained soil is a must. Try www.desert-tropicals.com as they seem to have quite a lot of info on cacti (among other things). The person who started the site is in Phoenix so I guess his climate is a bit drier than ours :-)

60 - July 21, 2004 5:25 pm

Name:

John Carter

Location:

Comments:

Nice site.... Keep up the good work!

John Carter
www.astrosat.info