A garden really worth seeing....

Don't Forget our Open Garden 13/14 Sept 12 noon to 5pm

Please pass this email on to your friends who may be interested

The wonderful Rossendale Community Ladies Choir will

be singing for us.

Please can you help

If you would like to donate a cake please contact Susan Tel 01706 213934

or email susan.conway23@yahoo.co.uk 

Thanking you in advance for your kind generosity.

We look forward to seeing you at 

23 Dalesford Haslingden BB4 6QH

Jefferson and Susan Conway

Trouble with photos

Anyone following this blog may have noticed the photographs suddenly fell of the page.  No, I have no idea why.  Even my techie husband agrees it is nothing I have or haven't done.  Indeed if you scout around it seems to be a problem with Blogger that has been around a while and has no solution.

It will be impossible to put them all back in.  Can't tell if I am cross or upset right now!

There are a few of the Garden and the Lotty in albums (links in the left-hand column) but that won't cover half of what's gone missing.

Another open garden near us

This isn't one I have been to and sadly we are away this weekend otherwise we would have gone.

Badger Corner

11 Brockclough Road

Whitewell Bottom

Rossendale

BB4 9LG 

Sunday 10th    11am to 4pm

Once again Dawn and Ken Taylor will be opening their Rossendale garden, with the invaluable help of friends and family, this time to raise funds for the Rawtenstall Remembrance Parade.

The extensive garden in Whitewell Bottom has been cultivated over many years and is an oasis on several levels with steps and slopes, lawn, ponds, a woodland walk, stream and is packed with a variety of shrubs, trees, vegetables and plants, together with accompanying wildlife. 

Many people come year on year and find there is always something new to see.  The event is an opportunity to meet old friends and make new ones as well as to appreciate the results of many hours ofvery hard work. 

Tea, coffee and biscuits are included in the entrance donation of £3.00, child entry is free, but they must be accompanied at all times by a responsible adult.  Home-propagated plants, home made cakes and Auntie Viv’s Strawberry Cream teas will be on sale. 

Disabled parking area only – please park at Whitewell Bottom Community Centre, just a short walk away. 

Kind regards
Dawn 
07866 081839

Truly a garden visit worth doing - inspirational

Jefferson & Susan invites you to our Open Garden for Charity 

13 & 14 September      12 – 5pm

23 Dalesford Haslingden Rossendale BB4 6QH

We have a young but very interesting garden on many levels

English and Mediterranean Style, Long Borders and Interesting Features. 

Japanese Garden, Outdoor Chess, Gold mine. 4 Ponds.

Steel Sculptures Art Studio.and Plant Sales

In past years we have held our Open in July, this year we are Celebrating Autumn

Let us hope the Autumn colours are as good as last years

Rossendale Community Ladies Choir will sing for you, please support them.

We are supporting:

Rochdale Hedgehog Rescue –Air Ambulance & The Smile Train

Please Donate £3.00 pp

Café:  Tea/Coffee & Cakes       Sorry no Dogs  - Strong Shoes 

Please forward these details to Friends and Groups who may be interested.

Scarecrow Festival

Scarecrow festival

BRANDLESHOLME
Scarecrow Festival

12 - 21 September 2014

IT'S BACK and it's BIGGER...

Following the success of last year’s inaugural Brandlesholme Scarecrow Festival, meetings are already underway between members of All Saints Church and Brandlesholme Methodist Church, the Library, Residents Association and Community Group, Woodbank Cricket Club, Councillors, local businesses and others to plan a Festival again this year.

The Festival will run between the 12th and the 21st of September, with a special event on the Sunday to close the weeklong trail and to present prizes to the winners.  It is hoped to run a number of different categories this time, and initial interest promises to make this year’s Festival even bigger and better than last year.  Watch out for more information soon!

I have 'borrowed' this from the Brabull - http://brabull.org.uk - the online voice of the Brandlesholme residents Association.  If you don't know about them, check out the site.  

My first husband and I were once upon a time the editor/printer general factotum for them but that was many years ago.  Nevertheless I remain a staunch supporter and reap the benefits of my £1.50 membership each year by borrowing the lawn scarifier and other bits and bobs of kit I neither want to buy nor store.  Well worth doing if you are a handyman/gardener type person.

Recording your garden

Those who know me know I have a passion for recording things, family tree, endless blogs, photographs, journals, diaries, writing of any sort so it is no surprise I have gathered 'data' on my various gardens in many homes over my lifetime.  

This is one thing I do every year in June.  I try to find a dry day around the middle of the month to record my garden so I can see how it changes year on year.  I have just done this year's record and thought I'd share the idea with you - doesn't take five minutes and you'll always have a record of what you did.  Looking at them today, we were saying we were surprised I had a vegetable border for four years, we thought it was only a couple and we were reminded of the caravan we had and the barbecue we never used!

I take eight photographs one from each corner diagnally across to the other corner and one in the centre of each side directly across from the opposite border - pretty much eight points of the compass in our garden.  Here's the record of one of the corners.  This one faces North-east.

2007 - we had just moved in and had got the patio down.  We had a small decked area in the corner with a couple of seats.  I wanted it because the other corner of the garden was lobbed off diagonally and I like things to balance.

2008 - we have added a summerhouse in the corner and the tree seems to have gone missing from the bottom border?.... but we have gained a pot on the patio.  The box hedge around the patio is just showing above the concrete.  The irrigation system is in - I can see a line to the pot.

2009 - the tree has reappeared but the side border has turned into a vegetable garden.  the patio pot seems to have had a baby

 2010 - looks more settled.  The bottom border is looking good and the veggies are thriving.

 2011 - the year I forgot to do the photos so had to find something that would do.  Quite glad I did as this one shows the lovely noisette rose doing its thing on the patio with its feet in lavender.

 2012 - now everywhere looks as though someone lives here.  The summerhouse was my workshop that summer

 2013 - I've moved back into the house to work and the vegetables has been replaced with a flower border and tree.

2014 - So here we are right now with the conservatory being built so it will all look very different next year!

If you are interested the best way to view these is to click on the first photo which will set it to full screen and then you can flick through and see how much it changes each year.