Tuesday, November 16, 2010

My Friend's Garden




My friend, just loves his garden, he is retired now , he was a spitfire pilot 2nd world war.I popped in to say hi and snap snap went the camera haven't cropped or any thing. I need to go back in to town bit of a busy time you know, but hey if you like looking at photo's please do thank you

57 comments:

  1. Are these pansies, "Antique Shades"? They're beautiful!

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  2. Gorgeous Swiss chard! I haven't grown it since I was a kid, but I think I'll grow it this spring :-)

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  3. What a beautiful combination of passion flowers and roses! Do his passion flowers set fruit?

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  4. Wonderful old fashioned looking rose :-)

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  5. Does he get any monarch caterpillars on his parsley?

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  6. Beautiful lettuces! I had a salad bowl similar to this.

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  7. Looks like a lovely place to sit and enjoy the garden. Does he ever sit? Or is he always gardening?

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  8. Your friend has a wonderful garden and you have some lovely photos :-)

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  9. Your friend has such a neat garden. Lovely display and great area to relax in.

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  10. They look like pansies to me..so soft and pretty.

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  11. Old fashioned roses are stupendous. Love them.

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  12. All so healthy he sure knows his gardening.

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  13. As Amy said plus nice shot here trammie!!!

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  14. What a lovely garden, thanks for sharing it here!

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  15. yes beautiful there is a blue and white one as well

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  16. planted in a pot of his home grown compost

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  17. this is last seasons chard,feed them all winter, replacing them with new plants this week

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  18. bumble bees and roses have made good set of fruit this year, its loaed.

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  19. no, but they have swan plants in the garden, water twice a day

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  20. these lettuce are grown in a bucket of home grown compost so clean you can eat them straight of the plant , they are 3 weeks old already eating them .

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  21. sits and has his glass of wine in afternoon and his nanny nap

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  22. not bad for a 90 year old its his passion as he cant fish any more

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  23. these beautiful old fashion roses are nice

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  24. they show there pretty faces each day

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  25. growing in a home made compost, Popeye loves it

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  26. a lovely vase of these cut roses sit on table each day beautiful scent

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  27. yes i think it is, iceberg also comes in a new burgundy shade

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  28. he used to be a nursery man he makes his own compost

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  29. not bad sitting in a bucket compost 3 weeks old

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  30. you are most welcome, hope to put some daylillies in soon

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