tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post1486604027533597169..comments2024-03-11T19:40:23.089+00:00Comments on Views from the bike shed: Apple Pear PlumThe bike shedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05195882998271591934noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-19861491746035269912011-03-28T10:50:16.083+01:002011-03-28T10:50:16.083+01:00Following all our building work we are left with a...Following all our building work we are left with a blank canvas for a garden. All we have really retained are the apple trees, which hopefully will crop this year although they may have suffered badly from the abuse over the last year. The designing of it gives me a bit of a headache - I'm not really sure what size and shape things will grow to - but I know that plants are easily replaceable. Good job too: we're also very good at killing them...!Catharine Withenayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06936767499911371984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-42260752353236129822011-03-20T19:49:45.526+00:002011-03-20T19:49:45.526+00:00I'm so out of touch with your (and everyone...I'm so out of touch with your (and everyone's) blog that I had not realised you had moved. Edwardian sounds lovely though and I know that you are so artistic that I bet the space is just lovely - garden or no garden.<br /><br />I liked the analogy between the sapling trees and Dylan too.French Fancy...https://www.blogger.com/profile/04941577892849157015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-36046397038283511082011-03-20T16:15:14.869+00:002011-03-20T16:15:14.869+00:00I'm just not a garden person...don't get m...I'm just not a garden person...don't get me wrong, I love gardens and being out in them I just know absolutely bugger all about plants and am not green fingered in the slightest! The house we're in at the moment has a huge garden which my Hubby and I just don't know what to do with. We keep it fairly tidy but that's about it...mind you, we're renting at the moment...perhaps I would feel different if it were our own.<br /><br />It's funny isn't it....you can live somewhere for years and it never really feels like home and other places you walk in the door and that homely feeling is intantly there.<br /><br />C xCarolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12327016337976942530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-72533716347998209792011-03-19T20:52:34.967+00:002011-03-19T20:52:34.967+00:00Your garden looks lovely. I'm sure it will at...Your garden looks lovely. I'm sure it will attract lots of butterflies and birds. It is a garden with memories already - Dylan's first camp out with his dad in the garden may be a life long memory for him. There are tastes and smells that to this day take me instantly back to my parents and grandparent's garden. Long may you enjoy yours!Paulinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15276284964859313257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-73281081474823820982011-03-19T02:55:57.291+00:002011-03-19T02:55:57.291+00:00What lovely space you have, Mark. I hope you'l...What lovely space you have, Mark. I hope you'll have many happy years to enjoy it with Dylan and your older boys.ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11376645220662546020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-30842598889330535022011-03-18T15:02:28.113+00:002011-03-18T15:02:28.113+00:00Putting down roots, as it werePutting down roots, as it wereMark In Mayennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14987723233401368368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-30144020247838903902011-03-15T19:59:29.802+00:002011-03-15T19:59:29.802+00:00I hope you get to see that butterfly this year. I ...I hope you get to see that butterfly this year. I thank you for stopping and looking at the Zebra Butterfly I had up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-22539014707341254302011-03-15T00:56:44.291+00:002011-03-15T00:56:44.291+00:00I tried my hand at a bit of gardening once. Pruned...I tried my hand at a bit of gardening once. Pruned the wardens prized orchid, when he wasnt looking. My parole board just reminded me about it. What's another ten years, between crooks?<br /><br />Re your 'word verification' thingy...When I put a spell check on it - it goes all funny on me. Got any suggestions? or is it just me?Bish Bosh Bashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01311092711040714994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-31519789380625325872011-03-14T19:07:36.597+00:002011-03-14T19:07:36.597+00:00From the pics it looks like you have some really b...From the pics it looks like you have some really beautiful outdoor space. I only have a small garden but have three fruit trees; two apple and a plum. They always fruit really well and I'm a haphazard gardener. :)The Domestic Anarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03496357005334614107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-25046251139171885892011-03-14T12:45:35.002+00:002011-03-14T12:45:35.002+00:00urgh, this all sounds horribly familiar..I am with...urgh, this all sounds horribly familiar..I am with Jane on this one.<br />I was wondering if i could adopt s couple of sheep to get rid of the ivy, elder, nettles, sedges,brambles...Kathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04003521059890699861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-67549938605769121322011-03-14T11:20:17.014+00:002011-03-14T11:20:17.014+00:00It sounds a super garden space to have 'inheri...It sounds a super garden space to have 'inherited'...I would have loved to have found a raised fish pond in any of the wildernesses we took on when moving house.<br />I hope that bees have not been wiped out in your area, as happened to us in France. So frustrating to see trees full of blossom...and very little fruit.<br />Have you checked what varieties you need for cross fertilisation...or is this something else that modern science has made redundant?the fly in the webhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04563871975125538755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-4915838052747001702011-03-14T09:50:12.744+00:002011-03-14T09:50:12.744+00:00When we moved here I must have known it was for ke...When we moved here I must have known it was for keeps as I didn't rush to clear the garden. Twenty years ago and the folk who lived here, an acupuncturist and his family, were ahead of the game, with green manures planted, totally organic with rain water collection and compost heaps. The garden was a wilderness, but we left it, and were rewarded with mature Bramley apples, gooseberries and rhubarb, various different colours of buddleia.... lots of bulbs and flowers emerged as time went on. Since then, it has been altered countless times, now in its final incarnation as regards layout, but always with new plantings. Patience is one virtue a gardener must have I discovered... and it's the one place I exercised it!<br />Yours looks very tidy and formal... ours, though tidier than it was, still looks a bit dishevelled, but we love it, and that's what counts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-66713990919853435612011-03-14T08:08:35.050+00:002011-03-14T08:08:35.050+00:00Happily when we plant and sow and grow things we d...Happily when we plant and sow and grow things we do it in partnership with nature who always supplies a comforting hand. Possibly there is a metaphor in there for the wider universe.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133900289384226725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-21497548158765990492011-03-13T22:38:34.693+00:002011-03-13T22:38:34.693+00:00Glad that you are feeling more at home now Mark......Glad that you are feeling more at home now Mark...<br /><br />Ref the backpack w/e. Do you mean April 1-3 in Wiltshire? If so- Yes I will be there. Dave Topley is leading a walking route and I am leading a short cycling route.<br /><br />-TrevorTrevorW�� https://www.blogger.com/profile/13212954091289189979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-14984104481543043072011-03-13T21:59:28.892+00:002011-03-13T21:59:28.892+00:00Good choices Mark...what a lot of work you have do...Good choices Mark...what a lot of work you have done already. Does your fountain work? The pond looks so peaceful and reflective. I actually think impatient gardeners are very good quality because... ahem..."we" want it now and not later and so work extra hard to make it happen)))). Have never liked those words.."all in good time". Pooh I say... <br /><br />You will likely be very surprised how quickly your Dylan and yourself will be able to pick fruit from your very own trees...honest!!<br /><br />Watch that ivy though...thugs sometimes.Gardeningbrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10709940044197929905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-24743158560972589552011-03-13T20:50:54.981+00:002011-03-13T20:50:54.981+00:00Don't worry, you've already taken the most...Don't worry, you've already taken the most difficult steps - what to choose and making a start.<br /><br />Don't let them fruit in their first year: they need to get their roots established.VPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02732971362066784175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-45710025588092890132011-03-13T20:50:53.671+00:002011-03-13T20:50:53.671+00:00I love fruit trees and have planted six here, alon...I love fruit trees and have planted six here, along with all sorts of other trees. They went in three years ago and are already looking more established, small still, granted, but becoming trees rather than sticks. Espaliers will be quicker! Great choice.Elizabeth Musgravehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09473705107636868753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-42305049267813364342011-03-13T20:22:20.658+00:002011-03-13T20:22:20.658+00:00A delightful garden,full of writing inspiration an...A delightful garden,full of writing inspiration and natural light. I'll be there by Wednesday.Jimmyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06876631508280097974noreply@blogger.com