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General Subjects => Travel / Places to Visit => Topic started by: ranunculus on June 19, 2009, 12:23:49 PM
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A series of images captured yesterday on the day after presenting a lecture to the Norfolk Group of the A.G.S.
Some were taken during a fleeting visit to West Acre Gardens, near King’s Lynn and the rest in the lovely garden of my very hospitable hosts; Phil and Diane Blyth of Norwich. My thanks to them both for their friendliness and generosity.
It was a pleasure to talk to such an enthusiastic group and my thanks to forum member Tony Goode for his kind invitation.
The observant among you may notice that the sky has been enhanced in one or two of the images. :D
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Enhancement of the sky? In Norfolk?? Where the weather has been good enough for the Eremurus ( A16 -A17) to be in full flower? :o I'm incredulous, I tell you!
We really need that elusive button for scent on the forum forthat gloriously rich red moss rose in A2 .... bet it was yummy!
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Another thank you for another series of gorgeous pix Cliff ! 8)
The white Delphinium in a11 is impressive !! :o
Thanks again Sir ! ;)
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Excellent, Cliff. 8)
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Great photos, Cliff.
I would love to be able to grow the eremurus but my soil is too wet for them.
Paddy
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Great photos, Cliff.
I would love to be able to grow the eremurus but my soil is too wet for them.
Paddy
We haven't had long-term success with Eremurus, either. We put it down to not enough sun and heat for them to make flower buds.... they do hang on, just :'( I don'tthink that ours were in too wet a site....so perhaps there are lots of reasons for failure....... oh dear, I'm not sure whether that is any comfort or not? :-\
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Still in West Acre Gardens ...
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How fortunate that you were there on the day of the "how many bees can dance on one flowerhead?" competition ? Hotly contested , I see.
I was not expecting to see a stand of Epilobium in a border :o ....... one man's weed...... again! :D
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There was a huge stand of white fireweeds as well, Maggi ...
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Last few from West Acre ... we'll move on to the Blyth's garden next...
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Good to see other entrants in the bee on a flowerhead comp!
I take it these are all outdoor shots, so that Loasa was growing outside,too Cliff? the red one in Pic A42?
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Everything thriving outside in these lovely gardens, Maggi ... the Loasa growing against a high sheltering brick wall and beside a large; 'Beware, I sting!" sign. My first visit to these free to enter (not free to leave as the nursery is so good) gardens and they are a must if you should be in the area.
Before I post some images of the plants in flower in the Blyth's Norwich garden I will ask you all to don your shades, adjust your screens, put out the cat (if it is on fire) and half close your eyes for the next two batches of images ...
I was born and raised in West Sussex and one of the joys of my childhood (apart from sticking things in my ears, the Eagle comic and Marmite) was to see enormous fields and hillsides covered in wild flowers - I relived my formative years near Swaffham on the journey home and had to stop the car on five or six occasions as the vistas became redder and redder ...
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WOW !!!! How fabulous a sight is that? 8) makes me feel thirty years younger and a hundred times more cheerful - a real delight.
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What amazed me, Maggi is that people were simply driving by without giving the fields a second glance ... perhaps all the locals have grown accustomed to such a spectacle ... ?
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I would hope never to become desensitised to such a wonderful display but I have seen a similar disinterest in other spectacles and I have a sneaking feeling that folks are so used to fakery, trickery, computer generated images etc in film and TV these days that they do not really believe anything they see and therefore have lost the capacity to be enthralled by magnificent nature. I believe it is why so many are inured to violence too . :'(
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I definitely WOULD make a halt to admire these exceptional views Cliff ! 8)
Fabulous !
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As a further aside, Cliff: I trust your camera batteries are well-charged up for the Pudsey Show tomorrow.... for plants and pilgets alike, I hope??!! ;D
Thank goodness for folks like you, Luc ...... those with a true appreciation of the wonders of the world around us.
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Cliff,
without words. A wonderful field. :P :P
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Great set of pics as usual Cliff, thanks for posting them.
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Wow, Cliff, I've never seen so many poppies. Paddy
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Thanks folks ... I hope your eyes have recovered?
Now for the images taken in Phil and Diane Blyth's lovely garden in Poringland, Norwich ... it was extremely windy so the images may not be quite as clear as they might.
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Oh, isn't that last Echeveria the one Mad was searching for the name for the other day........ :-\
( in the second last batch A81)
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It was Maggi ... well spotted!
The final image from this thread.
... Back to Turkey (or Pudsey)?
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Cliff, your poppy fields beat every bulb field around here in Holland. Made me speechless!
Did you only make 17 pictures out there? 8) 8) 8)
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Cliff ,I think this is your best ever batch of photos. :o :o :o
And belated birthday wishes too.
Eric
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Very many thanks gents,
Luit, I took twenty four shots in the poppy fields - six of them in quite meagre fields before I drove past the magnificent one (there were only two poorly flowered ones, then one good [but split] field and finally one exceptional area) ... the other image is simply a duplicate. I am most satisfied with the shot that features the enhanced 'stormy' sky. (A53).
Eric, you are very kind ... many of these were taken in rapid succession as I was anxious to continue my long and tiring journey home ... I actually spent just over an hour at West Acre and much of this time was spent perusing and selecting purchases. ... and thanks for the birthday wishes, it seems weeks ago! :D
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Fantastic, Cliff. Some amazing shots in there. Bumblebees look like they must be so cute and furry in person. ;D
Is the a71 in the Blyth's garden an Asarum? Lovely leaves.
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Thanks Paul ... yes, an asarum it is!
As always I seem to have by-passed a few shots in the bedlam that is posting ... all from the Blyth's garden ... and, just for Luit, three shots from the poorer poppy fields ... I would have been quite content with these at one stage on the journey. :D
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Cliff, I would have been satisfied too with the first places to see.
But for the field on A52 and A53 (THE VERY BEST OF ALL INDEED) the only possibility is an emergency stop ;D ;D
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Cliff (or anyone watching),
Any ideas as to which Asarum it is?
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... perhaps all the locals have grown accustomed to such a spectacle ... ?
accustomed yes, the area round Cromer is known as Poppyland.
Although we are accustomed that doesn't mean that we are not delighted to see them every year.
Many thanks for making the tiring journey across the country Cliff, it was good to meet you and I for one was delighted with your presentation, now back after a long weekend away it seems weeks ago that we saw it!
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Somewhat late, I know but what fantastic poppy field shots, Cliff, it's great to see them en masse like this instead of just a few skirting the fields where the spray hasn't reached.... English landscapes like this are unique and I love the poppy fields with dramatic skies overhead that you captured - will return for another dose when the day is grey.... 8)
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Many thanks, Robin ... so glad you enjoyed them!