Wednesday 12 June 2019

A Garden Tour

This was last Sunday - the day when there were a few hours of sun in between all the awful weather of Saturday and Monday.

 If this works it should be a tour of the garden round the house. I eventually (always have to re-remember how to do it!)  managed to load it to youtube and it was OK there so should be OK here.
Watching it back I noticed that I called the beetroot "red beet" that what we called it when I was small to differentiate from beet - which was the sugar-beet grown in the fields all around our house.

Sorry it's a bit wobbly, I need to learn how to hold the camera steady while walking.

Please ignore all the long grass and weeds around the edges. Col's brother should be coming over when he has some spare time to do some strimming for me. I can manage most of the work myself but not using a big strimmer. The raspberry cage that Colin built when he was still well enough is also a bit  of a white elephant. I do have all the netting to cover it but that's another thing impossible for one 5 foot 5 tall woman to do on her own! I can't take  the cage down either as it's so well bolted to a wooden frame.





Thank you for all the comments about the Olive Herb. Researching things for blog posts is one of the things I love doing.

Back Tomorrow
Sue

60 comments:

  1. I'm in awe of your garden, Sue. I know you and Col together did a lot of the construction work, but what you've achieved (and continue to do) by yourself is nothing short of amazing. And your garden is beautiful, I love it.

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  2. I agree with Sooze, you should be proud of yourself.

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  3. The garden is a delight, all your hard work will be rewarded with the produce you reap from it. I loved your enclosed patio and the gorgeous shabby chic ladder.

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  4. I don't know how you manage all that by yourself! Mine has all been cleared of the raised veg beds and chicken houses since my husband died, even then I have a gardener comes every week to keep it tidy. You do very well to keep it going so well. Can I ask where you got your fig tree from?

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    1. I've searched back on the old blog and found the fig came from Wilkinsons in 2017 just before we moved here, planted in a pot and brought here where Col lifted a paving slab to make a sunny space for it

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  5. Gosh that’s huge, well done. My gardening mojo has disappeared -again, really must find it.

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  6. Lovely garden,a lot of hard work and great credit to you.Nice to hear your voice and Suffolk accent!

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    1. Yes a bit of Suffolk accent creeping in now and again, not as broad as my BiL

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  7. What a brilliant garden 'tour'. Thank you. I'm amazed at how much you've managed to fit in - it looks really productive. Is your funny yellow shrub a Jerusalem Sage? We had one in our previous house, and they do that odd thing of having a flower head seeming to grow out of another flower head.

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    1. Yes the weird perennial is a Phlomis or Jerusalem Sage, it spreads like mad. I keep pulling bits out

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  8. How wonderful to see your garden, which is huge, and to hear you. You have a very calming and pleasant voice indeed. I don't envy you mowing all that, and if mine looked half as good as yours I would be happy. So much hard work you've put in, but just look at what you have achieved.

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  9. You have an absolutely awesome garden and I am filled with admiration. It puts mine to shame. How lovely to be able to pick, cook and eat such a variety of stuff.
    And I just love that ladder.
    xx

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    1. I love growing stuff to eat more than flowers really.

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  10. HOW many Courgette plants?!!! I bought two from a recent car boot sale and know they will be holding me to ransom when they start producing!

    Your garden is so well-organized. Mine isn't. I have one big veg plot (most of it under plastic to hide the long grass). It probably won't get dug over this year, but Tam did the uncovered bit at the front for me. Well done with all your hard work.

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    1. Too many courgette plants! EXCEPT for the day in August when I need 3 matching to enter in the Produce Show! Method in the madness :-)

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  11. Yes - you must really like courgettes! It's the only thing you're not ahead of us with. We have two - more than enough. Don't you have to cover the raspberries? Our blackbirds love them once they've finished the mahonia berries. Unidentified shrub - Deutzia possibly? Lovely garden. Must keep you very busy.

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    1. See above for the mad courgette planting! I shall check out the shrub name

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  12. Lovely big garden! I'm envious of your space, but not of the work needed to keep it looking good. Hats off to you and Col for establishing a productive garden and to you for keeping up the maintenance on your own with occasional help from BIL.

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    1. Its a small garden compared to the 5 acres of land we had at the smallholding!! Brother in Law is so busy I have to book him up weeks in advance!

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  13. When we got our fig (2005), we were advised it would be 4 yrs before we had fruit. In 2009 we got figs - one every day throughout the summer. In 2015 we relocated the pot to Norfolk. NOTHING! but this spring we've noticed filets appearing. Hoping that after 4 years in Norfolk it has settled and will bear fruit again. Your garden is splendid - you've worked hard and it is a fine and lasting tribute to Col.

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    1. Just had a search back on the old blog and the fig is only 2 years old, so the figs might fall off rather than grow!

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  14. Thank you for doing the film your garden is big and it's lovely, I could see the Jerusalem sage and I hope mind look as good as yours. Your ladder looks pretty. Thank you Sue I am so pleased my garden is not has big has yours but I am so much older than you but I still love pottering in my garden.
    Hazel c uk

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  15. I admire your fortitude and your energy Sue. You have certainly managed to keep going through the first awful year without Col. x

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  16. It's looking wonderful Sue. Wow, you have achieved so much and kept it going wonderfully well. I had to laugh at the courgette plants though ... I hope all the family like courgettes :-)

    With all the veggies and fruit trees in such good production you should be able to fill your freezer to capacity ready for Winter. Oh and well done on the filming, it's something I am only just getting into too.

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    1. The answer to the courgette glut is above, I grew the plants and had the space and thought might as well plant them!
      Just takes me ages to remember how to load the film to youtube

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  17. Your garden is looking lovely. Mine has got rather battered with all the wind and rain. I popped my head around to see what the damage was this morning. Not too much thankfully and what has taken a knock I'm hoping will perk back up once this bloomin rain has done is worst and gone away.

    Mx

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    1. The rain is a pain! So much to do and not enough dry days to do it

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  18. Lovely tour. Good to hear your voice. I cannot imagine how you have time to do have the things a garden that size requires. Bravo!

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  19. What an amazing property you have. I had no idea how much you were caring for. And such a wide variety of plants and trees. How long have you lived there? Much was there when you came or are all the garden beds your doing?
    It was nice to hear your voice too!

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    1. Been here 2 and a bit years, most was here. We planted the apricot and apple trees, gooseberry bushes, made the strawberry and new raspberry bed and added one more veg bed.

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    2. So beautiful! I love reading your blog. So different from my life in NYC. Can't even imagine having so much land. I had a small plot in the senior garden and it seemed a lot of work. I'm amazed at all that you accomplish.

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  20. Thank you for posting the lovely video, Sue. Your garden looks amazing and it was great to hear your voice, not to mention the beautiful birdsong! I think those unusual yellow flowers in the quarter bed are phlomis - I found some in my garden when we moved here to Reigate and it took me ages to identify them. apoarenylt the birds love the seeds.

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    1. Yes you are right Phlomis or Jerusalem Sage - they spread too quickly

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  21. Your garden is wonderful. You do so much! I love Phlomis and wanted to grow it after seeing Christopher Lloyd mention it many times in his books but northeast Ohio is just too cold for it. I didn't realize it would spread so much.

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    1. I have to get quite violent with it, pulling out from all round when it spreads

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  22. Your garden is lovely, The birdsong was beautiful, fig tree looks so lush. Thank you for sharing.

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    1. Love fresh figs so hoping to get a few this year

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  23. Beautiful garden... nice video, I love to hear your voice :)
    I know I don't usually comment but I always read your blog.

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    1. Thank you for reading, and for commenting today

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  24. What a fine garden you have. Nice to hear your voice and all the bird song.

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    1. I was surprised when I listened back just how many birds were singing happily all round.

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  25. Lovely garden. I am impressed with your video skills mine all have a shake and sweep at the end.

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    1. Made me feel a bit dizzy watching it! - I need to move the camera more slowly

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  26. Really enjoyed your video Sue, it is lovely to see your garden and all your wonderful produce. What a lot of work that must be, good for you.
    Pam in Texas.x

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  27. love the video & hearing your voice

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  28. You have done a lot of work there, well done you for managing it all on your own. I too always grow too many plants in my greenhouse, but after I fight my way in come August its always wonderful to bring out lots of fresh veg! Lets hope this summer picks up soon or I fear the veg will curl up and die with cold! x

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  29. What a gorgeous (and huge) garden! It must keep you very busy!

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  30. I loved seeing your garden and hearing your voice! I'm totally amazed at all the work you do and all the wonderful results you are getting. You are a very talented gardener!

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  31. Your garden is lovely. You are getting great results.

    God bless.

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