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Forgot Summer...
Apologies, I thought I took more photos of my garden this year - I started well with a couple of snaps in February and then completely forgot until I got a new camera in September.
In February I can identify the Snowdrops, and then I have a picture of some sort of pink affair - haven't a clue what it is and the photo isn't helpful as it's a bit blurry.
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[It's a Camelia, Ms Scarlet. And a rather vibrant one at that - IDV]
From September I have some nicely overexposed pics of my glorious scarlet geraniums - brought indoors to protect them from the frosts:
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For October I have my potted Hydrangea [a creamy variety], followed by some snaps of a Daisy thing, and a Mauve Daisy thing:
Thought you might like some wobbling Snowdrops as well....
It is okay, I am not expecting any prizes!!
[Which is just as well, as the Garden Photos Event is NOT a competition!]
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Triffid pictures... As peculiar as I can make them:
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[These 'Triffids' consist of sweet chestnuts, fir cones, and cyclamen leaves]
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Gardens of Yore...
Finally, here are the pictures of the garden I grew up in, though it didn't look this lush until I'd moved out and my mum had the time to look after it properly. I've included the pond, and the greenhouses where my mum collected fuchsias! And one of the pics shows a pollarded willow that came down during the 87 storm (I think!).
Anyhow, my mum's gardening skills put me to shame - I didn't inherit green fingers, sadly.
[Look! An actual Big Bronze Cock!]
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Thank you, Ms Scarlet! You may have forgotten Spring and Summer, but you really excelled yourself with your 'Gardens of Yore' photos - they're exactly the kind of thing I was envisaging!
Next up we have Savvy. Yes, she made it! And in plenty of time too.
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Your geraniums are stunning, Miss Scarlet!
ReplyDeleteAs for the pink camelia, are you sure that's not Mr. DeVice's “pink loofah/body mop/nylon netting shower pom pom on a string thingamy?"
No ducks? Perhaps they have wandered off camera.
Thank you, Ms Mistress! They are still blooming away in the conservatory.
DeleteYes - the camellia does look like something Mr Devine would use in the shower! No ducks I’m afraid - but I did once live somewhere with a peacock - I will see if I can find those pictures. The same place also had a pond with Moorhens. I have an affinity with Moorhens - I don’t know why.
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We don't have Moorhens across the pond so I look forward to your pics.
DeleteIs it me, or has MJ a newfound fascination with ducks?? Course I have no room to talk, what with my love of cocks. Pea or otherwise.
DeleteYes, I think you're right - Mistress MJ must be developing webbed feet! Sadly, I don't have pics of the Moorhens as at the time I was obsessed with the Peacock.
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Did you Bitches miss my contribution to the Garden Photos Event? It was a duck standing by a half-eaten tulip.
DeleteCome to think of it, you were probably distracted by all the dandelions on my lawn.
DeleteGoldfinches love Dandelions! I have more Dandelion than grass as well - all the best people do.
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"nylon netting shower pom pom on a string thingamies" as immortalised by the much missed Princess.
DeleteI wonder how Prinny's garden is growing?
How does Prinny's garden grow? With silver bells and COCKleshells, perhaps? Her disappearance from Blogsville is one of the great mysteries of our time.
DeleteThose bath tubs! *cackles*
DeleteOh, yes, weren't they wonderful! I have two up the allotment - one had a swamp in it (I've recently cleared it out), and the other is full of green algae. Bleeeeuch!
DeleteLove it! Forgot summer, indeed - you were too busy gallivanting because it was so dry there was no mud for a change 🤩🤩🤩! Anyway, what you have captured is lovely - and now you've remembered you have a camera, let's look forward to the glories of summertime in Devon this time next year...
ReplyDeleteYour Mum's garden certainly looked a treat. I love the fact that there was nowhere to sit down, because every bench and every surface had plant pots on it; especially fuchsias - my kind of gardening! Jx
PS The first Daisy thing is indeed a Daisy (,em>Bellis perennis), and the Mauve Daisy thing is my least fave flower ever, the Michaelmas Daisy or Aster.
I don't know what I was doing all Summer - I have a lot of photos of landscapes in my photo library, and little else - so I must have done a lot of walking - so yes mud free gallivanting!
DeleteMy mum's garden was gorgeous, considering it backed onto the A20! Yep, every surface crammed with blooms - she used to sit in the conservatory and gaze out at her work.
The new people ripped it all out - even the trees at the back, which means the A20 probably sounds even louder.
Thank you for the Daisy identification!
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Nothing beats those net frillies, pink or otherwise for a good froth-on in the shower.
ReplyDeleteI call them geraniums too, I leave mine in the ground over winter, if they turn to mush, I chop them down to ground level, they do come back, bushier and less leggy.
Love the Gardens of Yore photographs I've always wanted to live in a place with a split door, Clegg had one in Last of the Summer Wine.
In the 3rd Garden of Yore photograph, is that pampas grass I spy in the foreground? *purses lips*
Over here, we call those double doors "Dutch doors." I grew up in a rural area. My childhood friend had a Dutch door that led from her kitchen to the backyard where the horses were stabled. Her pony used to trot over to the house, sticking his head in the top open part of the door for carrots!
DeleteMitzi - I don't think it's Pampas Grass? I think you mean the Iris's that are in the pond - my mum loved blooms, and I don't think she was interested in grasses. Is Pampas Grass bad?
DeleteMitzi & Mistress MJ - Oh yes - the split door! We always wanted one when we were kids as my Aunt had one, and the birds used to perch there for my Aunt to feed that. My mum's birds never became that tame! I blame the dogs!
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Mitzi, take Miss Scarlet aside and tell her about the Pampas Grass.
DeleteNow I want a split door so I can feed the birds from it, too.
*Looks furtively around* psst psst
DeleteMJ, I call those here a glory hole....its just the reverse here. Top is closed with the bottom open to receive.
DeleteAhhh - yes, now I remember the discussion about Pampas Grass - no, my mum had no truck with that sort of thing - BUT, the next door neighbours had a large display on their front lawn. Who'd have thought it?
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Maddie - I hope you have a protective helmet as you don't want to knock yourself out on the top half.
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Hahaha!@Maddie.
DeleteThat garden is as cute and quaint as Ms Scarlett herself! Just what I picture from her.
ReplyDeleteI too LOVE geraniums and their scent. I brought mine in over the winter, the first time, last year, and they actually did very well, then took them back out when May hit. Their good size now. I also love the Camelia. Does that have a scent?
I'm shocked that Scarlet didn't share her big pink bush?
Mistress M - I know! What happened to my big pink bush???? It bloomed and I missed it! Admittedly it wasn't as vibrant this year, and I'm sure it didn't bloom for long.
DeleteI love Geraniums - they are so happy, and easy to grow - plus they put off flies and wasps.
I will sniff the Camelia next year and report back!
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Is "sniff the Camelia" a euphemism?
DeleteIf it wasn't before, it is now, Very Mistress!
DeleteYou've reminded me that I need to get my order in for Snowdrops! You're Camelia is similar to mine, but I don't know what the variety is.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful garden to grow up in! I hope my son will appreciate all my work someday.
Mels - I'm clueless regarding plant name - the best you get from me is 'pretty pink flower' or 'nice blue thing in the corner'!! I know what snowdrops are though - the time of year they bloom and the colour of them is a tremendously helpful!
ReplyDeleteYes, it was a lovely garden to grow up in; my mum used to grow more vegetables back then - all compost heaps and coal bunkers back in the day.
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Love this. I'm sure there are a number of gnomes living among all that delicious flora. I dated a gnome once. When we'd go to restaurants people would mistake him for the pepper mill. Needless to say, I was known to give him quite a nice grind from time to time. Kizzes.
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DeleteYes, Mr Upton, there were a couple of gnomes hidden around the pond - and some bits of pottery that I made at school - anything my mum didn't want in the house she hid under the flora by the pond - less cruel than rejecting my efforts completely, I suppose!
DeleteNo grinding in my mum's garden! There is a useful alley adjacent.
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An alley or your mother's NEIGHBOUR's garden, apparently.
DeleteYou're not alone Scarlet. When I was a child, I bought my mother a Christmas present, it was a lovely, framed print of a pride of lions laid in the shade of a baobab tree, feasting on a zebra carcass while vultures circled above, it ended up on the wall in the downstairs toilet, keeping company with my sister's stylish souvenir ornament of Blackpool tower and a plastic violin clock, they got 'lost' in the move.
DeleteMistress MJ - It all went on in that cul-de-sac! I even had some interesting moments myself up the alley. Less said, etc!
DeleteMitzi - When I was clearing mum’s sideboard I found two ‘rustic’ vases I made pushed to the back - she couldn’t quite bring herself to throw them out - I had no such qualms!
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"The new people ripped it all out..." Horribly familiar!
ReplyDeleteLove those cheerful red flowers(pelargoniums) and the camelia is a great stand-in for your bush.
I didn't realize that Miss Scarlet's bush had an understudy.
DeleteMistress MJ and Dinah - Ack, the camelia is pretty, but doesn’t have the thrust of my big pink bush!
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Dinah - I know - it breaks my heart to see what 'new people' do. I always try to embrace the handiwork of a previous owner, unless it's completely batty, I mean all those plants that 'new people' destroy probably cost a fortune - they're also destroying habitat.
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THANK YOU, MR DEVINE for hosting the Garden Event!!!! It's been lovely to potter down memory lane, though also a little sad.
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You're very welcome, Ms Scarlet! Thank you for taking part - memories, big bronze cocks, and bottom-opening glory holes and all!
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Loved looking around your garden Ms Scarlet, your Mum's garden is a joy and her Fuchsia collection, fabulous.
ReplyDeleteThose green bench shelves look jolly useful, I wonder where I could buy some.
All your flowers are fab, I particularly like the outrageous pink camelia.
As for your Trifid, I think the Dr. Who maggot one is rather spooky.
Thank you, Madam A! Blimey, yes, those shelves would be great in your garden - mum was fond of garden catalogues, but there were also many garden centres nearby - I wish I knew what happened to those.
DeleteI liked my Dr Who maggot too! I will have to use a different filter for my Halloween pics next year as Mr Devine wasn't as spooked by my efforts as he was last year!
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