It's the retirement dream of a couple of friends who bought a 1 hectare/2.5 acre sloping, wooded plot about 9 years ago and set about clearing it to make a garden and build their forever home. They spend a great deal of time, thought and money having fun in and with their garden as well as researching plants that will be good doers - no prima donnas.
The soil is heavy clay except for some sandy pockets at the top and is acidic. They spread a truck load of compost on every winter and every time I visit there's a new bed or a new feature. They buy each other sculptures for Xmas. It's fabulous and great fun to explore.
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)."
LP - perhaps you could resize your pix on the computer before posting them. If you hover over them it'll give the size they are. If you use something like Windows editor it'll have a resize function, or you can right click on them and that should bring up a resize option. I have the opposite problem in that many of mine are too big.
The upload thingy seems a bit inconsistent too - at the moment I can't get anything bigger than 2mb to upload at all. Most of the garden pix are less than that though.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Thank you for an enjoyable tour Malcolm. . . . flora and fauna. . . loved the hedgehogs.
Garden group meeting yesterday - http://s211.photobucket.com/user/Obelixx_be/library/160510%20Fleurisart?sort=2&page=1
It's the retirement dream of a couple of friends who bought a 1 hectare/2.5 acre sloping, wooded plot about 9 years ago and set about clearing it to make a garden and build their forever home. They spend a great deal of time, thought and money having fun in and with their garden as well as researching plants that will be good doers - no prima donnas.
The soil is heavy clay except for some sandy pockets at the top and is acidic. They spread a truck load of compost on every winter and every time I visit there's a new bed or a new feature. They buy each other sculptures for Xmas. It's fabulous and great fun to explore.
How are you all getting your photos to upload to a normal size?
i am getting tiny little things and of course now we can't enlarge them!! Grrrrrrrr
A A Milne
Lily Pilly mine were coming out small when upload and some not loading, I tested a pic and when posted came out big so try yours
same here about enlarging them
My Trillium, of which I am very proud, as it has taken me several years to get it to grow.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Favourite Tulips this year - Ballerina.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Spring Green is a beauty. Wish I could say I was upright for a long time!!
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
LP - perhaps you could resize your pix on the computer before posting them. If you hover over them it'll give the size they are. If you use something like Windows editor it'll have a resize function, or you can right click on them and that should bring up a resize option. I have the opposite problem in that many of mine are too big.
The upload thingy seems a bit inconsistent too - at the moment I can't get anything bigger than 2mb to upload at all.
Most of the garden pix are less than that though.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Forget to say - lots of lovely recent pix here. Makes you feel good
Lp - this pic looks small when you upload,but it's fine once you post it.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...