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.
Friday, 29 August 2014
Tuesday, 5 August 2014
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.
Kind regards
Dawn
07866 081839
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
Saturday, 2 August 2014
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.
Saturday, 5 July 2014
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.
Thursday, 19 June 2014
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.
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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.
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.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.
Friday, 13 June 2014
Out now
Here's what's out in my garden this week.
James Gallway.
This is a nice tough rose but can't decide if it is a climber or not - more a large bush that needs support.
It has lovely glossy leaves and seems to resist rust and blight and bugs pretty well.
The wrong poppy - this is a rogue red which comes up year after year - it has been pulled out, dug out and even poisoned!
I've decided to learn to love it.
The pretty little white thing flirting round it is called Bowmans Root (Gillenia Trifoliata). Well worth having if you can find it.
I love this iris. it is just about starting in the garden after three years! We dug it up from a B & B where some friends were staying - with permission! hey had stunning borders absolutely choked with it. My two little bits have struggled to get going in a north facing border (they do like to be sun-baked) but finally we are seeing some flowers.
It is an unusual one and could be Iris Spuria
Pretty common but no less nice for that and a real doer - this is masterwort (astrantia - probably major) - no idea what variety.
It will flower most of the summer. Not spectacular but incredible if you get up close and personal.
The white is the beginnings of the False Goats Beard (Astilbe) just starting to come into flower another stalwart.
The peony i have in a tub - thin it bneeds feeding as it only seems to manage two not huge flowers a year so far. There again, when my sister gave it me about three years ago it was only a few inches high so its doing OK.
This is a sentimental plant as it is from my sis before she decamped to Canada and in memory of my mom and the red peony of her home.
I can never get a photo of this odd little primula to do it justice. I think it is the capitata part of the primula family. it starts out covered in white farina (looks like it is covered in talcum powder) so it looks very odd, but then it progresses to this.
This is a really tough sweety - why oh why didn't I note its name. It is a very small white shrub a friend bought me in a pot last summer. I tucked it into a corner before we left for the winter not really expecting it to survive. When I was home in December it still had a few flowers on it and as soon as it could get going this year it is off. it is another one where you have to really look at it to appreciate it. The pretty little white flowers have an even prettier centre.
Let me know if you know what it is.
I don't do any good with roses - mine are always scabby with rust and covered in greenfly and more bald than leafy and the flowers get smaller and smaller and less and less every year. The exception to this were the two beautiful and bountiful Blush noisettes that I had on the patio. These are the two that we have had to dig up for the forthcoming conservatory.
Right now it looks as if the younger of the two might have survived the move but the other one has given up the ghost. If one makes it through to next summer I will buy another to replace the dead one. Fingers crossed.
I suppose roses should be regarded as fairly high maintenance; they need spraying several times a year and feeding often and I never seem 'to get round to it'. Maybe now I have a gardener every couple of weeks?????
James Gallway.
This is a nice tough rose but can't decide if it is a climber or not - more a large bush that needs support.
It has lovely glossy leaves and seems to resist rust and blight and bugs pretty well.
The wrong poppy - this is a rogue red which comes up year after year - it has been pulled out, dug out and even poisoned!
I've decided to learn to love it.
The pretty little white thing flirting round it is called Bowmans Root (Gillenia Trifoliata). Well worth having if you can find it.
It is an unusual one and could be Iris Spuria
It will flower most of the summer. Not spectacular but incredible if you get up close and personal.
The white is the beginnings of the False Goats Beard (Astilbe) just starting to come into flower another stalwart.
This is a sentimental plant as it is from my sis before she decamped to Canada and in memory of my mom and the red peony of her home.
I can never get a photo of this odd little primula to do it justice. I think it is the capitata part of the primula family. it starts out covered in white farina (looks like it is covered in talcum powder) so it looks very odd, but then it progresses to this.
This is a really tough sweety - why oh why didn't I note its name. It is a very small white shrub a friend bought me in a pot last summer. I tucked it into a corner before we left for the winter not really expecting it to survive. When I was home in December it still had a few flowers on it and as soon as it could get going this year it is off. it is another one where you have to really look at it to appreciate it. The pretty little white flowers have an even prettier centre.
Let me know if you know what it is.
I don't do any good with roses - mine are always scabby with rust and covered in greenfly and more bald than leafy and the flowers get smaller and smaller and less and less every year. The exception to this were the two beautiful and bountiful Blush noisettes that I had on the patio. These are the two that we have had to dig up for the forthcoming conservatory.
Right now it looks as if the younger of the two might have survived the move but the other one has given up the ghost. If one makes it through to next summer I will buy another to replace the dead one. Fingers crossed.
I suppose roses should be regarded as fairly high maintenance; they need spraying several times a year and feeding often and I never seem 'to get round to it'. Maybe now I have a gardener every couple of weeks?????
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