Figrat, I spent many months there in 1991 working on a large house set in about 70 acres. My assistant and I used to go to the Ferryboat. I met such wonderful people there, am still in touch with one of them. I loved the look of the place also
Thanks everyone! Yes it does heat up in the summer,in fact seems to have it's own microclimate. The tree's a Japanese maple, acer Senkaki, it's growing in a pot ( though think it's rooted onto the ground as well. Lovely in leaf, but I love the red winter bark.
Chicky, liked looking at your pictures. I have a little electic GH heater, 3 electric propagaters and a sand bed with a warm cable in it. That manages to keep it about 5° warmer than outside at night and the real babies have warm feet!
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
morning...beautiful photos.. good to see such lovely colours!
-Lizzie, had problems myself with blind daffs and tulips. One cause can be compacted soil, so when they die down, lift, fork over the soils add fertiliser and re-plant into the looser soil. It worked for some of mine...others I think I planted back too deeply.
The tulips I potted and forgot about...to my surprise found them with four inches growth... hope they flower.
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Figrat, I spent many months there in 1991 working on a large house set in about 70 acres. My assistant and I used to go to the Ferryboat. I met such wonderful people there, am still in touch with one of them. I loved the look of the place also
Figrat - love all that stone - must provide a great backdrop for plants. Does your garden heat up like a walled garden in summer ?
BusyLizzie - wow - what a collection. I guess your frosts are over (or do you have a GH heater?)
Also figrat - what is the red stemmed tree by the blue door ? Stunning silhouette !
Love looking at others pictures, so here are some of my own....
The last one is my daphne - which has been flowering since Boxing Day - a whole quarter of the year ! It makes me smile everytime I walk up our steps
Chicky, liked looking at your pictures. I have a little electic GH heater, 3 electric propagaters and a sand bed with a warm cable in it. That manages to keep it about 5° warmer than outside at night and the real babies have warm feet!
-Lizzie, had problems myself with blind daffs and tulips. One cause can be compacted soil, so when they die down, lift, fork over the soils add fertiliser and re-plant into the looser soil. It worked for some of mine...others I think I planted back too deeply.
The tulips I potted and forgot about...to my surprise found them with four inches growth... hope they flower.
Want to keep this going as spring is coming! Leonard Messel is out again.
And this Brunnera seeded itself. First time flowering.