Glad you like the pics. I'd wanted to go to Levens Hall for years so dragged OH and SIL there when up visiting BIL that year. It was empty apart from a Dutch couple.
I have two conifers in borders and which I have recently trimmed to tidy up the shape and keep to size but I don't have any topiary ambitions myself as it would become a bind to maintain when I'm old and doddery.
Quite like to see it done well though and I am learning the value of well placed, low box hedges in my own garden but that's my limit.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Posts
Glad you like the pics. I'd wanted to go to Levens Hall for years so dragged OH and SIL there when up visiting BIL that year. It was empty apart from a Dutch couple.
I have two conifers in borders and which I have recently trimmed to tidy up the shape and keep to size but I don't have any topiary ambitions myself as it would become a bind to maintain when I'm old and doddery.
Quite like to see it done well though and I am learning the value of well placed, low box hedges in my own garden but that's my limit.
Beautiful photo's Obilixx especially when i put each one on full screen, thank you for sharing, only wish I knew how to do it.
Frank.
Thanks Frank. It was a damp, grey day so they've turned out reasonably well despite the flat light.
OblelixX , nice pictures , never been there ,
looking foreward to the rest of the programmes
Gardening Australia , is that the one with Ant & Dec ?
I enjoyed it, although I would not regard it as a gardening programme in the traditional sense. Better than Strictly Come Wallpaper hanging though!
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Lovely photos obelixx. It's a very long time since I was there - girls were very small - and I remember walking inside the hedge.
I love topiary and formality. It's very soothing and peaceful. Great stress reliever - unless you're trimming it!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Snow, if you don't want to read my posts, please feel free to click on the handy "ignore" button. I shall be , in no way , offended.