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Picked this morning
Lulu The Lurcher
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Roses are still in bud and blooming in the garden. I picked these this morning to save then from being blown to bits.
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Lulu, I was just looking at my Rosa Bonica - absolutely covered with half-open blooms - fortunately it's in a fairly sheltered spot and I can see them from the dining room window
In the garden on the farm where I grew up we inherited a rosebed - all different types of hybrid tea rose bushes - one I'm sure was Peace, and it always always had at least one bloom on Christmas Day - it would be picked o Christmas morning and put in a little vase for the tea table
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
How lovely. It must have been wonderful to grow up on a farm
Lulu, thought you might like to know, my neighbour had his lawnmower going this morning. The small of fresh cut grass wafted o'er me as I picked and ate the last ripe tomatoes in the greenhouse (although the plant stems are brown and brittle now).
Keep lurching.
It was Lulu - I was very lucky - apart from knowing that I must keep away from working machinery, and shut stock gates etc, I was allowed to more or less run free from a very young age - by the time I was 10 years old I had a radius of a mile or more of countryside where I could wander on my own, playing in woods, spinneys, fields and streams. I knew every square inch and the plants that grew there. As we grew older my friends and I wandered the footpaths or cycled to the next village, knowing that my parents would not worry unless we were late for a meal
Farms are different places nowadays and parents, even country-dwelling ones, are much more anxious. My nephew and nieces have not had the wonderfully free childhood that their father and I had.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Roses here too, and, while visiting a house for sale, I saw a patch of daffodils in full bloom.