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General Subjects => General Forum => Topic started by: KentGardener on January 11, 2007, 03:03:02 PM
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Hi All
I have decided to start this thread as a result of some answers/questions in the cat poo thread!
When members have posted pictures and descriptions in the past I have often wondered about the size / location / shape / neighbourhood of where their gardens are located.
Below are some pictures that I have copied from two free internet resources:
http://local.live.com/
http://earth.google.com/
With these programmes / websites you can view your house from space (the images are usually about 3 or 4 years old though – but then they are free after all!)
I have then used the 'PrtSc' button on my keyboard (this copies my PC screen to my PC clipboard) and then pasted the result into a picture programme (or word).
You can see that I am in a tiny house with a tiny garden in a sprawling metropolis but I am proud to call it home, and have created the best garden I can with a very limited space to work on.
I would be very interested to see where other forum members are located.
(I have the feeling that this thread can go one of two ways – popular or me being the only poster…)
I look forward to seeing your situations
With my best wishes
John
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I think this is a great idea, John. A while ago, Mark sent us such a photo of our house. I'll look it out and see about marking "us" up on it, as you have done.
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John,
I am often down your way as my partner Adrian ( alias tea boy at Perth Show) lives in Meopham. Have been to a couple of shows at Rainham, will look out the dates for this year and try and get down again. Very different plants on show there compared with Perth.
Will look out for you if I am down
Susan
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Hi Susan
you will be most welcome to visit whenever you are next in Kent - the garden is small (as you can see) but hopefully there will be something showing that you can take a cutting/offset of.
If you give us a few days warning my other half is always eager to organise a BBQ at any opportunity! (No matter what month)!!
cheers
John
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Aha! A BBQ at any opportunity, no matter what month, eh? By this description your other half is Scottish, John... we Scots are well known for being daft enough to BBQ in any weather !! Here in Aberdeen, folk who BBQ in summer are thought of as rather soft! Our BBQ had to be scrapped and hasn't been replaced, we might need to come past, too!
You need to meet Susan and the fab Adrian, though, they'll make any party more fun, which is why we're trying to move him north on a permanent basis !
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Susan,
Are you referring the AGS show at Rainham (or Hardy Plant), sorry I'm not sure.
Doreen
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don't worry John it has been known for Adrian to scrape the snow off the BBQ first
Doreen, it was the AGS show that I have been to. Lots of Dionisias and european primula hybs which is something we don't see much of up here.
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Now then John my friend, it's fine for you young IT wizards to "whiz" through these kinds of things. Some of us wrinklies need a little more time. I will have a go but don't know when. By the way she who must be obeyed had a look at your examples and went away muttering about her smalls on the washing line being visible from space. Now she's gone I can say that she kids her self using the term small :o
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I found the pix and Ian has marked our house on it; here's a map etc to show you where we are so you can picture it when we tell you what's happening in the garden.
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general area
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google earth photo
Not sure how long ago the shot was taken, the car in the drive is Vera, a vauxhall estate, Ian reckons, now there's Verity, the Vauxhall Agila, bless her, the sweetest little car ever!
Looks like all the grass was gone from the garden, so my guess is around 1995, Ian says later.
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Not much good for this area, The Google photos of my garden are much older than 3 years and of very low resolution.
Brian Wilson Aberdeen
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I think this isn't that bad, Brian, I can see your fruit garden!
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Now you can tell us what you've changed!
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Where I live - from a helicopter.
The father of one of the kids in my school pilots the rescue helicopter in our area. As well as the obvious duties of rescuing those in distress there are the in between times when drills and practice flights are the order of the day. To fill in the time on these the crew sometimes take photographs. Last October they flew over my garden and photographed the area for me.
The first photograph shows the general area, close to the banks of the River Suir about two miles from Waterford City in south-east Ireland. To the left of the photograph you can see the road works which are in progress to build a new bridge over the river and give a by-pass route around Waterford. To the right is another bridge, now not in use - an old railway bridge.
The second photograph shows the garden. Look carefully and you will see a small figure in a white jacket - that is me, photographing the helicopter for my friends who were photographing my garden. A little left of me in the photograph, that black spot is my dog, Sid.
Hope you like the view.
Paddy
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Paddy - that is cheating! A lot better quality than the internet ones though. Next time the pilot needs something to do perhaps you could suggest he fly over a different SRGC members garden each week ;) ....
(Far too much grass for my liking - mowing lawns - that's not fun).
cheers.
John
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John,
I was so taken by your idea when I read it earlier that I simply rushed on a put up my own photographs. Now, that I have slowed down a bit - and been given the computer back by my son - I can look again and enjoy your gardens at greater leisure.
We all have different gardens in different locations and in these we do what we enjoy and, as you say, we call it 'home'. Surely, this is what it is about. What is different here is that we can 'talk' with other people who have their own paradises and realise that despite different locations, conditions, careers, family situations and all the other variables of life we share a common interest and thanks to this modern technology we are able to share it and enjoy it all the more.
This reflects one of the great truths of gardening, I believe: one of greatest joys of gardening is the giving and receiving of plants. There is a great thrill and delight in receiving a plant from another gardening enthusiast. Likewise, there is a great pleasure in sending a plant on to a good home.
It also reflects an experience I had about five years ago. You will all be aware of the political situation here in Ireland and can, I imagine, appreciate that there was a great reluctance on the part of southern gardeners to travel north. My wife and I decided we had been deprived long enough and set off about five years ago with our youngest for a long weekend in the Belfast area. We knew of some Northern gardeners from television and by reputation. The public gardens were easily accessed - Mount Stewart and Rowallane for example - but a private garden is always so much more enjoyable in a particular way. On impulse, we telephoned two gardeners and asked if we could come and visit - there and then. We were welcomed with open arms, treated like royalty, wined and dined and have remained in contact ever since.
Such an experience, and others similar to this, have taught me that there are areas of our lives which can transcend our many differences whether they be of nationality, politics, religion, social class or whatever. The love, admiration and appreciation of a good plant can unite the most diverse of people.
What we each have by way of garden is not the most important thing in the world. It is that of ourselves which we have invested in this space of ours which is significant. My wife has always had her own particular phrase to describe this idea; she says that she always prefers to visit 'a person's garden' rather than any public garden. 'A person's garden' will have that individuality that cannot be found anywhere else.
Of course she always also said, as we drove back in our own gateway, 'You know, my own little garden is the best of them all' and it is because it is our own.
My god, I am a windbag. So with those sentiments, many thanks, John, for a great idea, loved seeing where you and the others gardened.
Oh, and as for saying you are in a 'tiny garden' you must sometime go to Lisburn in Northern Ireland and see the small suburban garden of Harold McBride - his name wil be very familiar to many in alpine gardening circles. Here you will experience the warmest welcome you could wish to experience and see the most beautiful garden you couldn't even imagine with jewels of the alpine world grown to perfection. Small gardens can have great gardeners.
A quick comment on my garden photograph above, the second photo: you will be able to distinguish the original garden around the house. About four years ago we purchased an L-shaped piece around this to extend it. To the back left you can see the veg patch; the central area with young yew hedge is left open as it is the view out of the back windows of the house; to the right of the house are two glasshouses - one a present from Mary's mother and the other a present from my father. I am gradually filling up beyond these with trees, shrubs and underplanting, almost all grown from seed or from constant division of plants. This area is a bit on the big side for me to fill it with purchased plants. It is slow but great satisfaction.
I'm going to bed now.
Paddy
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Very well spoken Paddy It warmed the heart more than wiskey :)
Hope You will find plants to fill Your garden.
Are You growing any magnolias?
Take care
Joakim
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Grass and Magnolias, John and Joakim,
You are perfectly correct John, it is a lot of grass. If you look at the second photograph of the garden above you will notice in the top right hand side something white - this is a goalpost, need I say any more? The youngest is fourteen now, becoming more interested in guitar than football and I think the goalpost might be sent to a better home as soon as I possibly can. I have started making a garden out of this area, starting in the bottom right. I have bought only a very few very special plants, usually good trees and the rest I have grown from division, seed etc. I could not afford to simply buy all I would need for the garden. Also, when a bed is dug or border is dug out it leads to at least three years of very constant weeding before the weed seedlings seem to be exhausted. Also living in an agricultural area means that there is a constant incursion of grass seed. It is better to make haste slowly - festina lente - rather than make a job that becomes a major chore.
Joakim, Mary and I love magnolias and have a good number in the garden, mainly cultivars of Magnolia soulangiana and M. stellata with M. liliflora and several others as well. They are delightful trees and always give a great display. Occasionally M. soulangiana cultivars can get caught by a late frost here and then can look dreadful, drooping leaves and browned flowers. However, the plants have always recovered and continue to bloom again.
But Joakim, it couldn't compare with whiskey - Irish whiskey, that is(not that watery auld Scotch!)
There is an excellent garden just a few miles away from me here - I can walk along the river bank to it if I wish or drive around by the roads. This is Mount Congreve Gardens. For those who like magnolias, rhododendron, azaleas and camellias it is pure heaven. There are mass plantings of each of these plant types - never one rhododendron but, perhaps, fifty together. It was recognised a few years ago as the best spring garden in the world. The head gardener has just received a Veitch Medal from the Royal Horticultural Society for his work with rhododendrons. Amazingly, he is a local chap who went to work in the gardens as a teenager for a summer job, fell in love with the place and stayed there, gradually being promoted to the position of head gardener.
Great to see a love of gardening being recognised and rewarded - just like Ian and Maggi have been recognised with their recent reward: I have let the cat out of the bag here a little but I hope it will prod Maggi to make a new posting and tell us all about it in greater detail. I'm sure all members will rejoice in their success and join in congratulating them.
Paddy
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It's a lovely bungalow Paddy, with a lovely garden in a perfect location. Oh I do wish I had that kind of area to go at. Then I would have space for polytunnels and a state of the art alpine house and, and , and.......!!!!!!
Now to more serious things. I see you are provoking racial differences in respect of the original amber nectar. Now, being a Yorkshireman and it being a well known fact that Yorkshireman suffer from (a) a genetic mutation of very short arms, and (b) the fact that from birth all Yorkshire tailors are taught to construct garments with very, very long pockets; we are obliged to live with a pure and simple philosophy as far as the drink is concerned. This philosophy is:- "If th'all pour it, I'll sup it" "Th'all" is derived from the Old Norse and can be translated as "you will". A literal translation of the philosophy is that if someone is willing to pay, then regardless of the substance being paid for and poured it would be totally wrong not to drink it. My life has been led with strict submission to the philosophy. ;D
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Come on Maggi, come clean is it Lord and Lady Young???????
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David,
My niece is married to a Yorkshire man so I am well used to the dialect, your "th'all" and the like. I have also had the long lecture on the proper way to make Yorkshire pudding - several times!
You know, I reckon those poor misfortunates who live in Scotland are a bit like the Yorkshiremen - long pockets and will drink whatever is poured. How else could they be satisfied with that imitation whiskey that is produced there. You will have noticed that the greatest boast any advertisement for their product has is that it is made from pure mountain/spring water. Unfortunately, it still looks and tastes like the same water. Come across the pond for the better stuff.
Like yourself, I have had notions of polytunnels as I like to grow fruit and veg but she who must be obeyed likes things to be neat and tidy and polytunnels don't fit into this plan of hers. Ah well!
The old saying about the faraway hill being greener is very appropriate to our gardening discussions. We would always look in great envy at gardens in Devon and Cornwall with their mild climate and wonderful range of plants.
'Enjoy what you've got' might be good advice for us all.
Paddy
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Moved in 15 months ago. Picture appears to be 3-4 years old. Front of house is north facing, gets very little sun.
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Took me ages to get this photo downloaded OK, so I hope it displays. Here is our bit of Yorkshire: A = Fruit and veg, B=glasshouses and micro nursery. C= rockgarden, now extended, D= mixed borders. It seems to have been taken a good 10 years ago, as we now have much less grass! Gales at present blowing from the left.
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Mick,
The glasshouse seems to take up a large proportion of the garden; indicative of your particular interests?
Anne,
You have an odd shape at the back of your garden - did you acquire an extra piece at some stage?
Micro-nursery? A small nursery or a propagation technique?
Paddy
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Hi All
thank you everyone for posting - I am glad we have this thread - reading all your future posts will mean so much more to me if I can picture the garden in my mind. Hopefully more images will be added over the coming months/years.
Paddy - "1 years seeding is SEVEN years weeding" (not 3!)
Paddy - shame you are not in Co Tipp. - my brother live on the Devils Bit and gives guitar lessons.
Anne - where are the ferns located in your garden?
Anne - I hope they never build houses on the field at the back.
Mick - is that a greenhouse or shade tunnels?
regards
John
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The Google-Earth site does not seem to produce anything for here (Dyke, Forres). I can zoom in to Aberdeen and see Maggie eating a do-nut in the back garden but all we get over here is a muddy smudge. Shame.
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Really enjoying these glimpses into your gardens, John suggested that the zoomed images would be more interesting than the maps I showed, and, wouldn't you know it, he's right again, so here they are.
By the way, these show the home of the Bulb Despot and the Forum Dogsbody, Mr and Mrs Young, we have been honoured by an award from the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society, which I'll tell you all about when I have a minute, but trust me, Mr and Mrs Young are now, and we shall remain so. (If the Despot tries leaving me I'll mash his erythroniums)
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I am slightly puzzled by the "Mannofield" and "Aberdeen" captions that appear in these last two pix...Aberdeen is the whole city, as you might imagine, and Mannofield is the name for a small area around us, adjoining the "Braeside" area, ( where we get our Braeside prefix for some cultivars), though not the area where the caption sits!! Can't believe everything you read, can you?
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David,
Smudge in Moray? I think the quality of the coverage provided by Google Earth is in proportion to the population of each location, so obviously the streets of Aberdeen, for example, are quite clear but the same would not hold for fields and field boundaries. When in school I make use of Google Earth, which the kids enjoy, but it really doesn't show the area local to the school with any great detail - school is situated in the sticks.
This might explain your difficulties.
Paddy
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Paddy
I think it is rather selective. Even the town of Forres and 'city' of Elgin are smudged. And yes, in reality the populations are small compared with Aberdeen and Inverness.
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Paddy - we bought the 2 arms of the T shape from the farmer at the back at the same time as the house. The micro nursery is really just the small scruffy bit where I have things in pots waiting to be sold/planted.
John, the ferns are all over the place, but mainly in the perimeter part of D and in the shade house attached to the big greenhouse. And yes, we also hope they won't build on the airfield!
Maggi, we need a microscope to see the Young estates!
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Aha! I think I just found you on Local.Live - yours must be the garden with lots of things in it, third house from the crossroads just south of what looks like a cemetary. Yes? I'm watching you... :o
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Sorry, Anne, Young estates are like Ian; small but perfectly formed! There is a larger shot on page one, but here's a closer zoom, our house is the one in the middle of these three. Well, six, actually, three sets of semis, but we have both the middle two... it's a long story!!
Yes, Anne, that's us, and it is a cemetary, where the foxes live.
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Unfortunately John and Paddy the rafters are the roof of the garage when it was under construction. We have a new greenhouse at the side of the garage (maybe Maggi can put a link to the earlier post). When we moved it it was just grass front and back, this is gradually being eroded as the borders grow. I shall be having a Jameson's later Paddy, (the McLoughlin's originate from County Mayo).
These are the links you need:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=5.msg597#msg597
and this page on old forum : http://www.srgc.org.uk/discus/messages/1078/42592.html?1162925533
Cheers,Maggi
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And John 00Agent; Geebo, also known as Guy, lives in Co. Tipperary, if I remember rightly!
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Good on you Mick. At last a man of culture and refinment on this forum, a man who appreciates the better things of life, a man who won't settle for the inferior products of his adopted country. And I could recommend nothing better than Jameson.
Anne,
Purchasing the extra land was a good move. I'm sure you have enjoyed it greatly in the intervening years.
John,
One year's seed etc. I find that when I dig a new bed out of grass area it is quite weedy immediately but that the density of weeds declines over the following years until after three years it reaches a level and then simply continues to have the blown in weeds rather than those which were present as seed in the soil previous to digging. Just my experience here. And Mary believes completely in this and has now banned me from digging any other beds this year. She says I have neglected the original part of our garden and that I must direct all attention to it this season. What can I do but please her. The new always attracts me but sometimes to the neglect of parts treasured over previous years so I am going to tame those over-exuberant plants which are threatening lesser fellows in the beds.
Paddy
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After the talk of BBQs earlier in the week we have decided to have our first of the year this afternoon.
(How easy it is to plant an idea in my mind -I love BBQs)
John
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Not sure we should allow this heresy on the SRGC forum? Irish whiskey indeed :P
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Well, Anthony, I am inclined to agree with you, but I thought that if we allowed Paddy to build up a head of steam in his promotion of the Irish stuff, we could crack down on him later and make him buy us all a bottle to prove his point!! It's quite good enough for making fruit cakes and the like, after all!
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At least Jameson came from good Scottish stock: Alloa, where the town motto is "Look Aboot Ye".
Anthony, if we ever want to make up an SRGC pub quiz team, your name will be at the top of the list. Thinking of changing your title from Bug Buff to Trivia Meister ! M
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Maggi et alia,
I'm cogitating - a suitable reply will come in time.
Paddy
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Hi Paddy,
You are a genuin Philosopher, and I like you for that, there are a lot of possibilities around the homepart of your Garden,really mouthwatering.Living in an area with meadows that get absorbt by new houses and industrial disaster I liked the cattle surrounding your garden.I'll try to find the spot where I live and see if it could fit the Google focus.
Hope you are awake now, jan from holland
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Hi Jan,
Yes, I awoke, returned to consciousness and actually went out to the garden for a few hours in the afternoon, had a good walk with the dog when it became too dark to work in the garden - this is something I enjoy, going for a walk with the dog in the dark. Living in the countryside allows this, to get away from the lights of town and wander off through the fields. Even on moonless nights it is amazing how quickly one's eyes become accustomed to the dark and it is possible to navigate through the fields. The only noise are the birds which are coming to roost at that time of evening.
Re the cattle in the field around the garden - there is always the disadvantage that they will on occasion come into the garden and that they will always eat anything they can reach, so shrubs and trees get a little unintended pruning. Those in the photograph are cattle, bred for meat. Generally, it is my neighbour's milk cows which are there and they are a far more friendly and quieter animal and do less damage.
Looking forward to seeing your home/garden from google.
Paddy
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Great idea and fascinating to see other people's homes, sadly where i live there are no good photos I can find, all I came up with was a very small fuzzy blob (which the eye of faith would describe as my village) next to the big blob of my friendly, local, open cast coal mine.
Right, off to get my cloth cap and whippet and go and look at the leeks!
Sue
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Sue, are you sure the small fuzzy blob wasn't your cat? She must leave the stove top occasionally, and may have been "snapped" outside!!
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The cat and her other feline friend both refused to go out yesterday as it was so windy! The sofa was much more comfortable so they stayed there for the whole day until I turfed them off so I could sit down after doing so gentle seed sowing.
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Thank goodness it is possible to do some tasks, such as seed sowing, indoors in this weather.
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The only challenge is keeping the seeds and the compost in the pots when I take them outside - in the end I left them on the floor and will take them outside tonight when I get home.
The other good task is discovering that none of the (very) many gardening books I have say anything about the seeds I'm sowing and I don't have the internet accessible from home - still it gives me something to do with my lunchtimes at work!
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Just worked out how to do this. Here is a piccy of where Pam the cat and I live
Moderator's note, Mrs McEnery is Pam, the cat is Charlie
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I live in (and garden on the balconies of) a boring flat in a rather nice little town in north Portugal (Apto on the town view - the town is Ponte *de* Lima, not Ponte *do* Lima ...), but I have a wee bit of land out in the country - almost 10 acres ;D One day, after all sorts of legal etc things are settled, I hope to actually be able to rebuild the house and DO SOMETHING with the land. It's the elephant head shaped land on the last picture, including big ear and wonky trunk. The larger L-shaped house is mine and the other house tucked into the ear is a neighbour's. I hope it doesn't turn into my own white elephant ...
Chloe
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I can see lots of elephants - and no I haven't been drinking! What are the interesting circular things that look like cropmarks?
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I can see lots of elephants - and no I haven't been drinking! What are the interesting circular things that look like cropmarks?
Oh dear, can you see my elephant head? Should I have marked it on the photo?
The "cropmarks" are made large rotating sprinklers!
Chloe
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We can see a nice parrot, around the sprinklers! I think we've got your house, how far does your ten acres take you?
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We could play hunt the elephant head, Maggi-style, with a virtual bottle of Port as a prize, but ...
Chloe
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Oh, THAT elephant head!!
Pity about the port, though, eh?
Looks like a lovely piece of land, Chloe. Perhaps you could develop a camp site for sun-hungry alpinists?
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Chloe,
That is a most attractive elephant, very Portuguese!
Paddy
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I am sure his trunk is rather enlarged - maybe he has got elephantitis?
Maggie - thank you for explaining about Pam the cat - I had read it as just Ian and the cat living together.
John
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Chloe looks like a nice place :) . Do You alredy have plans for it?
What are the trees? They look to big to be citrus or olive trees (or You have some mighty ones :) )
Good luck with it, it seems to have a lot of potentials ,maybe it already is great. It is hard to say from the picture.
Good luck
Joakim
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Oh, THAT elephant. What a fantastic place, it looks like a ready made golf course! What potential! Good luck Chloe.
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No good pictures from where I live folks - more blurry pix without anything identifiable on them... Google obviously still has some work to do.
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Looks like a lovely piece of land, Chloe. Perhaps you could develop a camp site for sun-hungry alpinists?
That is sort of my idea, B&B of a type, aimed at plant lovers. Maybe camping facilities too, who knows?
What are the trees? They look to big to be citrus or olive trees (or You have some mighty ones :) )
Lots of them actually are olive trees that the neighbours laugh at and say they look like chestnut trees - they haven't been pruned for years and years. There are also lots of chestnut trees, plus walnuts, the odd oak, cherry, wildish apples, pears, and near the house peaches, oranges, lemons and tangerines, and Cordyline australis which is grown here for its leaves to be used as "string" to tie up bundles of cabbages etc for the market. And far, far, far too many brambles :( >:(
Oh, THAT elephant. What a fantastic place, it looks like a ready made golf course! What potential! Good luck Chloe.
I hadn't thought about that. It would be hill golf, as each of those fields is on a different level, the house being at the top of the land. :D
Chloe
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Hello KentGardener, image Holland07 is just 10 km too small to show your residence,think your my closest Forumneighbour in the UK. I live 30 km east of Rotterdam just under the "untitled Placemark". The area was a swamp,made into land by the ancestors.The image Reiger 10 shows under the untitled placemark among others ;house,greenhouse (2.5 X a showercabin) ,garage and 60 square meters Alpinegarden found in Front- + Backyard.The lot is cramped on a plot measuring 224 sq. mtrs, that density,that's why we developed nice negociating models in Holland, a tight lifestile end so on. What about a new topic "who has the smallest G '??? I guess the picture was taken August 2005, around noon. Hope the fitting in of the pics. will succeed, because it's stormyweather,jan (http://[img])[/img]
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Oeps KentGardener, thought so storm makes the difference, now again (http://)Holland07, jan
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Here is the eye in the sky's view of my patch. The first one shows 'Forrest Acres' (delusions of adequacy). The plot is long and narrow, which makes it difficult to set out but I am more interested in individual plants than the garden layout.
Second shows how very convenient it is for me to stroll across top the Blackpool Show, a 1 minute shuffle at most.
Lastly showing the beautiful Stanley Park where I often got to look at and Photograph the birds (feathered kind if Mrs F. is reading this)
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Jan,
It is amazing how close to England you are situated. It is something I had not visualised previously.
John,
Forrest Acres looks very well and very well situated for you.
Paddy
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A few property shots from the other end of the earth.
The first gives an idea of where my home town of Invercargill ,(pop. near enough to 50,000), is in NZ.
Otatara is a suburb some 4 kms west towards the coast.
Our 1.5 acre property backs on to the larger Otatara evergreen bush reserve.This provides for a microclimate 8) with frosts reaching a max. -3c .
Despite conditions being ideal for cultivating Rhodos ,Trilliums etc i persevere with growing alpines, ::) That explains why some sun loving gems elongate. :'(
Cheers Dave.
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Jan, I think you have at least three close forum-neighbours. Looking at your map Norwich is as close as Kent and there are two active forumists here!
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My goodness, Paddy / Tony / John....
If Johns ancestors didn't foolishly put up obstructions like British customs + North sea, I would be there in 100 minutes to start the salvage operation on his greenhouse.
My Guardian accuses me of being too involved in agricultural relations, ( In Dutch; Wife is something between wench and prostitute, so take care! ) You better say "echtgenote" , which means "female enjoying the state of holy matrimony". The more I get involved with you lot the more I need a dictionary!?! Apart from passing Heathrow airfield to Nepal or so, I didn't visit ''the UK", guess you didn't advertise your positives enough. Moreover the missis lost a Renault in your irratic and leftish ( is that right?) Traffic, so that comes to a nasty addition.
Of course I am interested in my neighbours, I must cross the "wide and deep' even as far as Ireland I am afraid. Tony I think I did all I could to make myself very unpopular on the Forum, I am afraid I'll never meet the extremely east-living 4-ummers you are trying to introduce, yes I am hopeless...
Lonely me and the mistress greeting you , jan
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Hi Jan
thank you for the coastal picture. Like Paddy, I too did not realise just how close you are to us. :)
regards
John
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Hi Jan,
Judging by the number of your fellow countrymen who have already come to live in Ireland I can only imagine that you would feel very comfortable and welcome here.
Paddy
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Right you are Paddy, Don,t be misstaken we have no hard feelings about the past,wish my english could be is good as my german . My main source of alpines is in Germany -Chemnitz ,there I buy nice Dionysia's .
It' s the nursey with the hex. pots ,there I bought as clearing of his airy tunnels very nice stuff for 1,5 euro, if you join me on the way to the conference in the Chech . Rep. we can pass the Sheakespearestr. were he lives. Hope I didn't shock the islanders jan
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Taking up un old thread
Here is where I plant in Hungary.
It is three lots one of the a double and that is the one with the big house, my parents.
The one marked is mine and above the one marked is also mine.
What one sees to the left (west) is a park/forrest and also to the east is a forrest. The road goes on the top of the ridge in north-south direction and we have the west slope. At the top are the houses and below wine (brown so I presume in spring ) and then grass and fruit trees. We also have a part east of the road.
I hope you can see the picture.
Kind regards
Joakim