Month: October 2020

Are you sitting comfortably? August 2020 – no 24

Post author By greenbenchramblings
Post date October 30, 2020
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It has been a while since I wrote a fresh post about garden seats because of the long period of lock down and shielding, so it is great to be creating a new one. As usual enjoy looking at the seats and consider what it would be like to rest awhile on them to enjoy the garden and its viewpoints.

The first photo below shows Jude, the Undergardener with our granddaughter Arabella enjoying the seats between two patches of meadow plants. To the right are the same seats with no sitters!

The next four are of seats we found in an NGS garden in Powys our neighbouring county in Wales.

And this set is from another Powys NGS open garden

Wherever our travels take us next in search of gardens to enjoy I will be keeping an eye out for seats!

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The Tree of Life

During lockdown we were also shielding because of my vulnerable status due to a blood condition and COPD so during that time we were unable to meet up with others. Towards the end of that period we were due to celebrate our 50th Wedding Anniversary with friends and family. Sadly this could not happen but we do have a special gift from Jude the Undergardener’s mother, Sheila which has now taken pride of place in one of our sitting areas.

It is a corten steel relief sculpture of a Tree of Life, which looks wonderful against a newly painted brick wall. It features three birds enjoying its branches.

This beautiful silhouette can be seen along a long view down the central path from the .bottom of the garden. Lovely to look at as we walk up the path back towards the house.

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Crocosmias – the brightest stars of the mid-summer garden

Post author By greenbenchramblings
Post date October 9, 2020
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When wandering around our garden in mid-August we were surprised by how many crocosmias were flowering even though the earlier varieties such as C. ‘Lucifer’ had already faded and were producing their rather beautifully structured and coloured seed heads which will last for months and provide good cutting material. The gallery below features those crocosmias that we enjoy in our garden through August, September and into October for their flowers and then onwards through winter for their stuctural seedheads.

So I decided to wander around the garden with my camera and take photos of each different one, for you to enjoy as a gallery. As usual click on the first picture and then navigate using the arrows.