Good on you Hogweed My maternal grandmother (the gardening one) took strongly against the last Prince of Wales (the one that abdicated)... she blamed him for the decline in the fashion for gentlemen wearing hats and the subsequent demise of the family straw hat factory ... she would have approved of you and Monty
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks for all the suggestions, still no luck finding the hat although there were some similar ones. I suppose it would be easier to search if I knew the name for this type of hat. It looks like something which might have been worn by some farm worker 100 odd years ago. It could be fremch. I'll keep on looking!
For some reason it reminds me of Vincent van Gogh and "self portrait with a straw hat"" - no help to you I know Susie, but it always strikes me as a "foreign style" hat
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Yesterday at 22:37
what's Peruvian Willow?
Willow from Peru?
I have to confess when we saw it we both rolled with laughter and shouted
" what the "flip" has he got on his head??"
Maybe he bought it at the Gulag bring and buy sale where his blue suit came from?
To each his own.
Might be willow from Peru Hosta. Did a google and came up with an aquatic plant related to Oenotheras.
In the sticks near Peterborough
As someone whose family fortunes declined along with the Luton straw hat industry, I say, 'Go Monty!!!'
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I say, 'Go Monty!!!'
He still looks an eejit.
I bought a straw hat in the spring. How about that for optimism. I live in Scotland. And no I haven't worn it yet!
Good on you Hogweed
My maternal grandmother (the gardening one) took strongly against the last Prince of Wales (the one that abdicated)... she blamed him for the decline in the fashion for gentlemen wearing hats and the subsequent demise of the family straw hat factory ... she would have approved of you and Monty 
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks for all the suggestions, still no luck finding the hat although there were some similar ones. I suppose it would be easier to search if I knew the name for this type of hat. It looks like something which might have been worn by some farm worker 100 odd years ago. It could be fremch. I'll keep on looking!
For some reason it reminds me of Vincent van Gogh and "self portrait with a straw hat"" - no help to you I know Susie, but it always strikes me as a "foreign style" hat
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I think that's where I got the French impression (did you see what I did there?) from too, Anni.
Each to their own indeed, Hosta - I like almost everything Monty wears! Love a bit of crumpled linen on a man... or a woman.