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A photo taken by the under gardener. Hand must have been shaking
I think. We have quite a selection of shredders and chippers and here you can see them in action Autumn 06 as we
start to clear the bank at the front of the cottage.
The morning I took this picture the weather man said that it was
offically the start of Autumn. As summer had hardly got going this is a bit unfair. I cannot think of the onset
of winter till the 1st of October. Note in the picture the pole for apple picking by the Bramley tree. We have
a great crop each year and I cook and freeze its fruits for the winter months.
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| Cottage from the orchard. September 07 |
This picture was taken by the under gardener whilst up a ladder
collecting damsons from one of the many damson trees we have here. This a job I hate but then he does not like making jam. You
can see Clee Hill very well in this picture as well as a little of the kitchen garden. You can also see a straddle stone which
was given to us by some friends as they were leaving their cottage in Warwickshire. The under gardener collected it and it
nearly gave the three men putting it into our car a collective hernia. It quite literally dropped out of the car and
into the spot you now see it in and believe me when I tell you it will not be moving again.
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| The Gravel Garden 4th of October 07 |
This picture of the gravel garden shows just how much it had
developed in its first year. I am so pleased with the results here. We have added more plants as you will
see in other pictures and the gravel has been a wonderful medium for plants to self set themselves. These "free"
plants are carefully lifted out of the gravel and transplanted into pots to make more plants to use in other parts of the
garden or sell for the NGS. It is of course not very easy to lift and divide plants that are in gravel but it is amazing
how many of the plants from other parts of the garden manage self setting in this gravel.
