Hi Keen- just read this thread. Don't listen to Verdun - he's just jealous of my wings...
I was 27 before anyone else too- but I'm still younger because fairy years are different....
Lots of great people on here and tons of expert knowledge available from them - not just about gardens and plants as you will soon find out...cake's a strong topic!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Hi all. Will try again but be more brief - is there a limit?.I said thanks for all the kind comments and explained a little about my plant favourites and combinations etc. Foliage is the main thing with me, colour, shape, height, contrast etc.and packing them all together as someone said into a picture. I mentioned two gardeners, the late Mrs Margery Fish and her wonderful garden at East lambrook Manor in Somerset ( may I suggest looking it up on PC). The other is Mrs Beth Chatto and her beautiful garden near Colchester. Both have written several very interesting and informative books. I have after my early days and once the bug had really bitten followed their style and the plants they grew/grow - to a much lesser degree of skill of course but very pleased with the results nontheless. Ref (Salino ) the shrubs I grow pse see next post.
Hi. Ref Fairygirl thought I had better say I do believe in fairies - sometimes see them at the bottom of my garden - usually after a few Guinnesses, if you happen to turn up give me a wave and have a drink with me. Ref shrubs and Salinos question - although main interest is HHP I have always grown a few for height and a framework to the garden and to provide screens to walk round (create corners) to avoid the "seeing it all at once" thingy. Mostly of the "usual" type such as Forsythis, Weigela including Florida variegata, Deutzia, Hypericum ( Hidcote), Buddleia ( 4 especially for the Butterflies and Bees etc), old single Roses, a few Rhodos, an Osmanthus and these found growing here when we moved in two most beautiful mature specimens of Viburnum tomentosum plicatum - a picture when in flower with their horizontal branches absolutely weighed down with flowers. There is some others whose names escape me right here, one with very nice yellow foliage.
Keen 1,... I note you've been to East Lambrook Manor - I went there once and enjoyed it very much, if it's the same one I'm thinking of, I get them mixed up sometimes... there was this gorgeous potager area I admired too...
I had a book by Beth Chatto - I gave it away, but enjoyed it very much... she developed the 'dried up river bed' look for her acreage there in Essex and I've tried that a little where I am, in a very small way.... some of her plant choices I like and other's I don't, but that's what gardening is about, personal preferences...isn't it..?
I'd like to know what old single roses you grow.. if you have the names... if not then no problem... I don't have Forsythia or Weigela, quite like Deutzia and the Viburnum family... perhaps you'll show us all a photo or two, in due course.... we can run our critical eyes over them...
Hi. Ref my garden. We live right alongside a mixed Woods of Pine, Oak, Ash, Beech, Robinia , others and also a lovely 50ft Larch. Between that and my garden there is a strip of land I am allowed to use as garden and this I have attempted to make as "woodsy" as poss with a framework of shrubs round the outside and Fruit tree down the centre with beds around. Did attempt to plant these up with suitable plants including Hostas but Deer jumping the fence ate the lot - now only the Shrubs, certain variegated Grasses, some clumps of culinary Rhubarb and theTrees remain but still looks good.The garden (plot) proper is roughly 80/90 feet square. When we moved in the front was dreadful with the many many Moles hereabout using it as a hunting ground - nothing would stop them. This also applied to that area at the back nearest to the woods so both were cleared, sheeted over and 3 inch layer of threequarter shingle over all - this has stopped it but it only leaves the other third immediately behind the bungalow for plant cultivation - this has some grass, a border round ( mostly shaded), a Pond, raised bed for Alpines and a largeish square area for planting.
Hi Salino. Thanks for that. As I said I am a great follower of Margery Fish, her plants and books and that garden at East lambrook Manor - it probably was the one you visited - its very famous as is she. The single Roses I have no names for and I did in fact grow them from seeds from Haw collected when seeing them growing about in garden hedges etc., a white, wine coloured and a deep red - they are really nothing more than Briars I suppose but the flowers are large, lovely and that perfume knocks you over. Ref Mrs Chattos garden the "Dry Garden" is only a part of it at the front, just gravel and plants left to get on with it. Her main garden at the back has three smallish, longish lakes down its centre with the land sweeping up from them into wide borders of many choice plants and woods etc. Over to one side is a terraced area with again dry land plants growing in variety. All very lush and green - a super garden over all. Pse see next comment re photos.
Hi Salino. I must stop or will be getting told off. Ref sending photos I am a very interested photographer ( Plants, Birtds and wildlife mainly). The snag is I am not all that clever with PC's and find this resizing of pics befor sending beyond me. On my old XP I had a good resizer but Win 7 has none so far as I can find out/see. If someone can put me right I would be very pleased to share as indeed I look forward to seeing those of others. I use Picasa mainly and can send them to individuals from there but do not know if I could send from there to the site. Also they are in Windows Libraruies but are always miles oversize if sent direct from there.
Hi. Thanks. I have tried Paint and did succeed for a while to resize them but as I said I am a duffer at this PC'ing and lost the plot somewhere. I will try and send a pic and see where I go. Thanks again.
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Hi Keen- just read this thread. Don't listen to Verdun - he's just jealous of my wings...
I was 27 before anyone else too- but I'm still younger because fairy years are different....
Lots of great people on here and tons of expert knowledge available from them - not just about gardens and plants as you will soon find out...cake's a strong topic!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Hi all. Will try again but be more brief - is there a limit?.I said thanks for all the kind comments and explained a little about my plant favourites and combinations etc. Foliage is the main thing with me, colour, shape, height, contrast etc.and packing them all together as someone said into a picture. I mentioned two gardeners, the late Mrs Margery Fish and her wonderful garden at East lambrook Manor in Somerset ( may I suggest looking it up on PC). The other is Mrs Beth Chatto and her beautiful garden near Colchester. Both have written several very interesting and informative books. I have after my early days and once the bug had really bitten followed their style and the plants they grew/grow - to a much lesser degree of skill of course but very pleased with the results nontheless. Ref (Salino ) the shrubs I grow pse see next post.
Hello Keen1, I'm the sensible one here as you'll no doubt observe
and I'm only 26 & 1/2
ish.
Hi. Ref Fairygirl thought I had better say I do believe in fairies - sometimes see them at the bottom of my garden - usually after a few Guinnesses, if you happen to turn up give me a wave and have a drink with me. Ref shrubs and Salinos question - although main interest is HHP I have always grown a few for height and a framework to the garden and to provide screens to walk round (create corners) to avoid the "seeing it all at once" thingy. Mostly of the "usual" type such as Forsythis, Weigela including Florida variegata, Deutzia, Hypericum ( Hidcote), Buddleia ( 4 especially for the Butterflies and Bees etc), old single Roses, a few Rhodos, an Osmanthus and these found growing here when we moved in two most beautiful mature specimens of Viburnum tomentosum plicatum - a picture when in flower with their horizontal branches absolutely weighed down with flowers. There is some others whose names escape me right here, one with very nice yellow foliage.
Keen 1,... I note you've been to East Lambrook Manor - I went there once and enjoyed it very much, if it's the same one I'm thinking of, I get them mixed up sometimes... there was this gorgeous potager area I admired too...
I had a book by Beth Chatto - I gave it away, but enjoyed it very much... she developed the 'dried up river bed' look for her acreage there in Essex and I've tried that a little where I am, in a very small way.... some of her plant choices I like and other's I don't, but that's what gardening is about, personal preferences...isn't it..?
I'd like to know what old single roses you grow.. if you have the names... if not then no problem... I don't have Forsythia or Weigela, quite like Deutzia and the Viburnum family... perhaps you'll show us all a photo or two, in due course.... we can run our critical eyes over them...
Hi. Ref my garden. We live right alongside a mixed Woods of Pine, Oak, Ash, Beech, Robinia , others and also a lovely 50ft Larch. Between that and my garden there is a strip of land I am allowed to use as garden and this I have attempted to make as "woodsy" as poss with a framework of shrubs round the outside and Fruit tree down the centre with beds around. Did attempt to plant these up with suitable plants including Hostas but Deer jumping the fence ate the lot - now only the Shrubs, certain variegated Grasses, some clumps of culinary Rhubarb and theTrees remain but still looks good.The garden (plot) proper is roughly 80/90 feet square. When we moved in the front was dreadful with the many many Moles hereabout using it as a hunting ground - nothing would stop them. This also applied to that area at the back nearest to the woods so both were cleared, sheeted over and 3 inch layer of threequarter shingle over all - this has stopped it but it only leaves the other third immediately behind the bungalow for plant cultivation - this has some grass, a border round ( mostly shaded), a Pond, raised bed for Alpines and a largeish square area for planting.
Hi Salino. Thanks for that. As I said I am a great follower of Margery Fish, her plants and books and that garden at East lambrook Manor - it probably was the one you visited - its very famous as is she. The single Roses I have no names for and I did in fact grow them from seeds from Haw collected when seeing them growing about in garden hedges etc., a white, wine coloured and a deep red - they are really nothing more than Briars I suppose but the flowers are large, lovely and that perfume knocks you over. Ref Mrs Chattos garden the "Dry Garden" is only a part of it at the front, just gravel and plants left to get on with it. Her main garden at the back has three smallish, longish lakes down its centre with the land sweeping up from them into wide borders of many choice plants and woods etc. Over to one side is a terraced area with again dry land plants growing in variety. All very lush and green - a super garden over all. Pse see next comment re photos.
Hi Salino. I must stop or will be getting told off. Ref sending photos I am a very interested photographer ( Plants, Birtds and wildlife mainly). The snag is I am not all that clever with PC's and find this resizing of pics befor sending beyond me. On my old XP I had a good resizer but Win 7 has none so far as I can find out/see. If someone can put me right I would be very pleased to share as indeed I look forward to seeing those of others. I use Picasa mainly and can send them to individuals from there but do not know if I could send from there to the site. Also they are in Windows Libraruies but are always miles oversize if sent direct from there.
I've got a programme called 'Paint' which is very simple (like me) it resizes and crops in a very straightforward way.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Hi. Thanks. I have tried Paint and did succeed for a while to resize them but as I said I am a duffer at this PC'ing and lost the plot somewhere. I will try and send a pic and see where I go. Thanks again.