I’m not sure, if I had, told many people, because I had a “gagging order”, but now I can say, “We are delighted to announce that a grant of almost £24,000 has been secured from the Big Lottery Fund’s Local Food scheme and we can now begin to action the plans for community allotments in the village……”
read more here at the Gravel Pit Allotments Website
I’ve always liked Peonies, I think they are wonderful plants, fantastic green foliage with super red blousy flowers, but maybe my fascination with them stems (sorry about the pun there!) back to the Peonies that were planted in my Grandparents [Poppy and Grandma] house in Bristol, in the 70s. [Lindsey hates peonies!].
Well, I’m very lucky to have part of that very same plant that was in my Grandparents back garden in Bristol, 30 years ago.
When my Grandparents left Bristol, the Peony plant was dug up, and moved with them, eventually to Wales. My Grandma passed away a few years ago, and the tuber was split into three, my Parents, Grandfather (other-side of family!) and me, got thirds of the tuber.
It’s taken 2 -3 years to flower, but here it is
So it’s nice to have a reminder of my Grand parents [Poppy and Grandma] in my Garden, and a link to Bristol!
So Heritage Peony, Andy’s Peony, or maybe ‘My Grand Parents Peony‘ is more fitting.
Okay, severe lack of blogs recently, so this month I’m going to try the Blog every day challenge!
So as this is the 1st Day of Summer.
We wil kick off with a picture of Angus, that’s found a new cat basket!
Angus on HP LaserJet 2100N
It becomes a little difficult to retrieve print jobs!
Lets say the magic word – “Herbidacious”, and welcome to my New Secret Garden …
I’m very fortunate, I’ve been after some land, to grow vegetables on for a while, we still await the outcome of funding for our local allotment association.
A neighbour in the hamlet has kindly agreeded to let me have part of the garden to cultivate and grow vegetables, because the garden is very large and it’s too much for them to maintain. This area of the garden used to be culivated and used as a vegetable plot, 10 years ago.
I’m very excited, don’t know, when I’ll find the time, but it’s very close to where I live. It’s going to be a lot of work, but follow the journey here, it starts now…but well worth it I’m sure.
Maybe this deserves a new blog, but I’ll keep it here, coming soon …
Andys Secret Garden pictures shortly…
Yesterday we dug out a casualty of the hard winter frosts we had, where the ground remained frosted for many weeks, lots of garden Hebe’s around this area have died in the area due to the hard winter frosts. Lindsey was thinking of replacing it anyway, because it had grown too large and straggly.
Dead Hebe, frost damage
After removing the dead Hebe
We spent some time out yesterday at Burnby Hall Gardens, home to a National Collection of Hardy Water Lilies – the biggest such collection to be found in a natural setting in Europe. Here are a few pictures of some of the collection.
Chilli plants in July in the porch
These chilli plants have been grown from seed, I did think I would lose them all at one time, but since transplanting into larger pots, they started to do very well, and signs of flowers haved started to appear in the last few days.
A few people have asked what the flower looks on our rambling rose Rosa filipes ‘Kiftsgate’. At the time of the last post, when I removed the sucker it was only in bud.
Here’s a picture in flower.
Rosa filipes 'Kiftsgate' in flower
Blue Delphinium
Geranium
Cheery flower for this mornings post. Blue Delphinium and Geraniums growing in the front garden border.
Sorry about the cane!
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