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Hi Everybody...

Mr and Mrs "@shiney are a formidable partnership.. Hehe! Must have a look at this autistic gardening programme.

Visited Mosley Hall - a most fascinating place where Charles II hid himself to avoid capture by Cromwell. The lady guide told us a lovely piece of history and I was hooked by the intrigue and plotting.

Here is the parterre and a water pump for @martin-f to compare notes



Another visit to Wightwick Manor. Boy - how I love the place. The 3rd time I have been to this place and yet I just love it no end. Everything about it sings

The building is most exquisite and so is the interior ..

Just love the details


Some lovely flowers in the garden

I have the feeling that these are rudbeckias, but I could be very wrong.. Someone nice to enlighten me ..

Wonderful achillea .. too far away to capture.

A well-chiselled masculine clematis.. Any kind person knows its name?

Some statuesque eremurus..

Some wonderful roses..

 

Lovely pics @alp , you've been very busy.

Yes do try and catch The Autistic Gardener, its fascinating to see his ideas and plans and in general how he views the world .

 

Hi alp, did you get to Ashwood Nurseries as you were at Wightwick ?

 

Thank you alp, my pumps more of a water pistol compared to that , thank you for sharing your day what a lovely place i can see why you keep going back .

 

Morning all

 

Good morning to all -

@martin-f I love your pump. This one is just too long.

Going to be a very busy day..

My first cosmo sulphureus

Echinacea Pallida and a beautiful yellow tanz


I also have a red one, don't know if it is going to flower

fragrant double lilies




Lovely dahlias

Speckled mixed.



Love the last collarette - very pastely ..

My very first spider



@Upsydaisy Will watch Autistic gardeners on C4. Yesterday, I watched the very voyeur Handmaid's tale... pretty disgusting stuff ..

Have a nice day ..

 

@alp When did you get back, did you have a good holiday? Amazing pics. Got to plant some cosmos today and maybe do some more weeding.
Here's some roses

 

Good morning folks
Cool feeling and overcast

 

Hi everybody, hope you're all bright eyed and bushy tailed this morning!!

Gorgeous pics as usual from our @alp.

Just showed them to my hubs, asking him ' why can't I take stunning pics like this'? He did mention something or other that my little camera lacks having........think he was just being kind in not mentioning my inadequate camera skills

Lovely roses @Logan......can almost smell their fragrance!

Hope you had an enjoyable walk this morning @Verdun

I off, my hoover is beckoning me!!

Hope you Monday is a Magical one!

 

@Upsydaisy thanks. Been planting some cosmos. Had to dig it over first, grounds so hard and dry. Got rid of some other plants so i can have a big patch of cosmos.
:rasp:

 

@shiney they look great.