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Offline Hugo

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« Reply #600 on: April 12, 2015, 11:29:24 am »
They all look good and healthy Hollins  I like all of them but especially the one in the fourth photo that's my favourite.

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« Reply #601 on: April 12, 2015, 11:51:04 am »
The winds have been very strong today and my garden furniture has been blown over again so it's all down, to save the furniture from further damage.
The gusts seem to be well over the 50 mph predicted and my dovecote which is fixed to a small tree, has been swaying backwards and forwards just like the pendulum of a clock and the tree now looks like it will snap any moment


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« Reply #602 on: April 12, 2015, 12:12:16 pm »
It is horrendous up here too. I never saw this coming in the forecast. All the lovely things coming out in the warm weather last week are now getting blown to bits in the wind and horizontal rain.

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« Reply #603 on: April 12, 2015, 02:05:03 pm »
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The gusts seem to be well over the 50 mph predicted

Mostly around 32mph, but occasionally a little more. Our max was 33mph at 10.01.
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.  ― Michel de Montaigne

Si hoc legere scis, nimis eruditionis habes.

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« Reply #604 on: April 12, 2015, 06:38:48 pm »
I wish it was that calm up here this morning Ian.   My wooden picnic table disintegrated in the wind and all the heavy pots on top of it  fell down and broke.   The top of the garden is a right mess with soil all over the place.      :(

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« Reply #605 on: April 12, 2015, 08:56:48 pm »
Strange things Gusts; they can cause enormous damage in one street, yet leave the next untouched. But we did have almost half an inch of rain in the past 24 hours.
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.  ― Michel de Montaigne

Si hoc legere scis, nimis eruditionis habes.

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« Reply #606 on: April 12, 2015, 10:06:33 pm »
Wild up on the Orme this morning (50mph gust apparently around 11:00 am) even though the wind was from the west a direction from which we are normally protected. Early morning paper re-cycling (ours and everybody from the Orme above us) collection from around the garden as normal.

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« Reply #607 on: April 17, 2015, 05:44:20 pm »
I visited a lovely and most unusual garden yesterday. It was called Westbury Court garden in Gloucestershire. It is a Dutch style canal garden and I hadn't seen one like it before.
It almost met a sticky end in the sixties when the garden was derelict and the land was about to be sold for housing.
However in 1967 the local council gave it to the National Trust and they have done their usual fantastic job of restoring and maintaining it despite being flooded in more recent times.
It looked immaculate yesterday. Here are a few photos.

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« Reply #608 on: April 24, 2015, 01:30:58 pm »
The weather this week has been great and everything seems to have come on really well.   The Magnolia Stellata is in flower and the Spirea next to it will be in flower soon.
The Azalea that I put in a pot seems to be doing well too.

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« Reply #609 on: April 24, 2015, 02:31:54 pm »
It was great to see your magnolia flowering so profusely. I planted this one in 2008 and I think if I am lucky I am going to see my first flower this spring.

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« Reply #610 on: April 24, 2015, 06:01:31 pm »
It's a beautiful colour Hollins, what variety is it?      I've seen one variety called Susan and from memory looks a bit like yours.

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« Reply #611 on: April 24, 2015, 06:15:54 pm »
It is called Black Tulip Hugo.

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« Reply #612 on: April 24, 2015, 06:38:22 pm »
Do you have bunny issues, Hollins?

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« Reply #613 on: April 24, 2015, 06:49:39 pm »
Ha, yes Jack. Not so bad now though since the cat and her two kittens adopted us.

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« Reply #614 on: May 19, 2015, 10:09:16 am »
I visited a lovely garden at Picton Castle near Haverfordwest yesterday complete with lawnmower museum!
The place is maintained by a charitable trust and relies on volunteers. Compared to Bodnant it was more like a wild garden and it makes you realise what a massive amount of work must go in to keeping Bodnant looking as neat and tidy as it does.