Used to be three fishponds Joyce but after the children had all left home they sprung leaks so i converted them into my fernery but left the bridge there as it is a shortcut to parts of the garden. Many a toy boat was sailed on the ponds but the fish were always shortlived because of the heron population. One of them gave me a real scare in the garden. I was weeding under an apple tree and heard a fierce whirring above my head. i thought it was a helicopter but when i looked up I stared right into the eyes of a heron. He must have thought i was a frog for his lunch!
Your garden must have been wonderful for you children to explore. I enjoy seeing the different areas in your photos. . . . an exploration wondering what is round the next corner.
When we moved in in 1964 with two boys and two girls and another boy on the way the children came in from their first rec of the garden asking their father to build them a tree house. He built them one in a huge pear tree which the neighbour said had not fruited in thirty years. It was three stories.and a great success and i filled many a meal into the basket to be pulled up and consumed up there. The following year it was covered in blossom and then fruit!. all it needed was some serious pruning. The tree house is long gone but the tree still bears good crops.
Hi Marion lovely memories and I bet your grandchildren enjoy your garden too.
Do you remember my Rhodidendron in my front garden and how I asked you for advice as the leafs where going all yellow and had no flowers at all last year, well I fed it with
Lots of rain water will help too, Flumpy. Glad it is thriving now. We have had quite a bit of rain through the night by the look of my damp garden. Gloomy today too so we may be having some more.
Hello , nice to see pictures , raining in Tenby at moment, looks like weather has turned , going home tomorrow , it will be interesting to see how the greenhouse has faired
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Used to be three fishponds Joyce but after the children had all left home they sprung leaks so i converted them into my fernery but left the bridge there as it is a shortcut to parts of the garden. Many a toy boat was sailed on the ponds but the fish were always shortlived because of the heron population. One of them gave me a real scare in the garden. I was weeding under an apple tree and heard a fierce whirring above my head. i thought it was a helicopter but when i looked up I stared right into the eyes of a heron. He must have thought i was a frog for his lunch!
Quite a scare Marion!
Your garden must have been wonderful for you children to explore. I enjoy seeing the different areas in your photos. . . . an exploration wondering what is round the next corner.
When we moved in in 1964 with two boys and two girls and another boy on the way the children came in from their first rec of the garden asking their father to build them a tree house. He built them one in a huge pear tree which the neighbour said had not fruited in thirty years. It was three stories.and a great success and i filled many a meal into the basket to be pulled up and consumed up there. The following year it was covered in blossom and then fruit!. all it needed was some serious pruning. The tree house is long gone but the tree still bears good crops.
How lovely to have so many happy memories associated with your garden, Marion.
Hi Marion lovely memories
and I bet your grandchildren enjoy your garden too.
Do you remember my Rhodidendron in my front garden and how I asked you for advice as the leafs where going all yellow and had no flowers at all last year, well I fed it with
once a year, and this year! Look what's happened!
Lots of rain water will help too, Flumpy. Glad it is thriving now. We have had quite a bit of rain through the night by the look of my damp garden. Gloomy today too so we may be having some more.
Still rain in the wind but I managed to get some pics of the flowers that are triumphantly beating the gloom.
Hello , nice to see pictures , raining in Tenby at moment, looks like weather has turned , going home tomorrow , it will be interesting to see how the greenhouse has faired
Marion, the flag irises would make beautiful printed cards.
Afternoon Marion,
beautiful photos as always? Please can you share the name if the white starlike cluster It looks like a syringa leaf?
A A Milne