lizzie your garden is breathtaking! kef and pd i'm in s yorks too...promised sun not here yet, little one didn't want to go to playgrou[p today so other screen has nursery rhymes on, good job you can't hear us singing away while i'm typing!
KEF I don't have a ceanothus - that was just a picture from the internet!! I have failed to grow ceanothus on two occasions. Don't think the soil round here suits it. I hope your mecanopsis fights back! BusyLizzie your garden is just beautiful - so green and natural looking. It has inspired me for when I go further into the 'wilderness'. What I have so far is built from recycled stuff on 2 ft of solid iron ore, not green enough really.
Sorry, yes, lily. It's an old stone French farmhouse with beams. Like the garden, when we bought it in 1990, for what the English would think was a ridiculous price, it was in a state, burst pipes, mould growing like fur on the beams, filthy. Hadn't been lived in for 6 years and before that was a holiday home. But now it's lovely. Was a lot of work, but I was younger then, under 40 instead of 27!
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Sounds wonderful Lizzie, my OH wanted to move to France a few years ago, but I can't leave my boys. We have friends with a 2nd home in France, its lovely its 3 stories and also made of stone with beams and beautiful fireplaces. I don't think the garden is as big as yours but its very pretty. We have had a few holidays there, its always so peaceful there.
I have French marigold babies, I know I that won't make you all envious as they are so easy to grow, but that's my only boast for the day and we should do at least one good thing a day
tres bien that's all i can manage! i have a french brother in law but that's nothing to be envious of!! i hope my new eglanyne rose will be something to envy by summer , tracey i'm envious of you large garden with so much scope you're going to have so much fun over the next few years, sorry if you've already said have you recently moved?
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lizzie your garden is breathtaking! kef and pd i'm in s yorks too...promised sun not here yet, little one didn't want to go to playgrou[p today so other screen has nursery rhymes on, good job you can't hear us singing away while i'm typing!
KEF I don't have a ceanothus - that was just a picture from the internet!! I have failed to grow ceanothus on two occasions. Don't think the soil round here suits it. I hope your mecanopsis fights back! BusyLizzie your garden is just beautiful - so green and natural looking. It has inspired me for when I go further into the 'wilderness'. What I have so far is built from recycled stuff on 2 ft of solid iron ore, not green enough really.
Oh Lizzie, your garden is absolutely beautiful. Do you have an olde worlde stone house. I am so envious.
Sorry, yes, lily. It's an old stone French farmhouse with beams. Like the garden, when we bought it in 1990, for what the English would think was a ridiculous price, it was in a state, burst pipes, mould growing like fur on the beams, filthy. Hadn't been lived in for 6 years and before that was a holiday home. But now it's lovely. Was a lot of work, but I was younger then, under 40 instead of 27!
Gorgeous garden Lizzie
My garden is south facing too Louise......sorry 
Sounds wonderful Lizzie, my OH wanted to move to France a few years ago, but I can't leave my boys. We have friends with a 2nd home in France, its lovely its 3 stories and also made of stone with beams and beautiful fireplaces. I don't think the garden is as big as yours but its very pretty. We have had a few holidays there, its always so peaceful there.
I have French marigold babies, I know I that won't make you all envious as they are so easy to grow, but that's my only boast for the day and we should do at least one good thing a day
We got a brand new lawn mower today and I also manage to sneak in 8 plants too
Nice one Lily
tres bien that's all i can manage! i have a french brother in law but that's nothing to be envious of!! i hope my new eglanyne rose will be something to envy by summer , tracey i'm envious of you large garden with so much scope you're going to have so much fun over the next few years, sorry if you've already said have you recently moved?