FABULOUS STAINLESS STEEL 10L MILK CHURN. PLEASE LOOK!!!!

.. and Jenny and Loli bark orders advise on the best way to approach things.

 

SS - I've just had a You will be moving around the time of shiney's open day. Now, it's a bit of a trek (granted), but, wouldn't that be an interesting way for you to sell off some of your treasures? (With a % going to shiney's charity fund?)

Sorry, I'm waffling, but I'm just trying to think laterally

 

they will have the both of us big time thats me and you

 

Oh I'm not scared of Jenny and Loli

I can bribe loli with fertilised duck eggs (for hatching or eating) and I can bribe Jenny with some freebie edible eggs

Them be power in eggs at Easter - ooh ahh!

 

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Hi Spruce,
Many thanks for your kind wishes.
We live on the edge of a small rural village, half way between Newport and Caerphilly.
About 10 miles North of Cardiff. With wonderful rural views. Great for birds as well.
Many of plants I can remember exactly where we bought them. So know exactly how you felt about the Magnolia.

I thought of doing what you did, dig stuff up and sell it....but not so easy when Acer roots grow into the roots of Oaks, that provide the overstorey.

I had hoped someone would be prepared to continue our work, add to the garden. Gardens do not stand still they evolve and change, which as it should be.
Plants die, get blown over etc .Each hole is a new planting opportunity.

I couldn't bear to live in the neighbourhood and see all our hard work being reclaimed by nature. Hence the move.... a long way away!
I shall miss the huge windows, the light, the views as well as the garden.
Cheers
S S

 

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Hi Palustris,
Thank you for your kind wishes.
When we bought this place there was a small wood.
It was so overgrown with brambles, it was impossible to walk through it.
The rest was not much better... like yours weed infested.
Hence getting the goats. Brilliant at clearing brambles and huge fun as well.
3 huge old greenhouses and glass cloches meant broken glass in heaps.
Took a huge skip to get rid of most of the glass.

We were given good advice a few years ago... move before you get to 70.
After that you will not bother... and will watch it decay around you.
I couldn't bear to watch that happen.

We took that advice!
Getting old yes... but getting out now before knees knackered!
Cheers
S.S.

 

Good luck with the move Silver Surfer. I envy your move to Scotland, but it must be a wrench to leave your wonderful gardens, a hard decision to have made no doubt. I don't think I could ever live without some form of garden, even just a small one, but everyone has to make a decision about the road ahead and what best suits their situation.

 

if i had the spair cash i would want Your Garden all 4.5 Acres of it Good luck with the move and the sale of your milk churm

I Hope you are Happy in your New Home All the best Nick

ps any pics of your Garden Please??

 

Hi Sheal,
Thank you for your good wishes.
Yes.. tough decision taken over a few years.
Thought about that. Plenty of NTS gardens that must be desperate for volunteer help.
Best of both worlds.
No pressure.. if not up to it then garden will carry on... with other.
No guilt... eg. Nice day... oh dear, cannot go out for a walk, as flower bed needs weeding/ grass needs cutting etc! Pressure always there to be doing something.
Self inflicted pressure... from a nerdy perfectionist.
Too old to change that now.
S.S.

 

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Hi Nick,
Thank you for your kind wishes.
Wish we were rich enough, not to worry about the money from sale and could instead give it cheaply to a keen young gardener.
But we aren't ....so have to go with who ever puts in best offer.
Cheers
S.S.

 

My inlaws, now in late 70's, say the same thing. During their retirement they have "holiday'd" anything up to six times a year, and they did all the long haul in the early years of their retirement, and are looking to only do short haul from now on.

Great forward planning on their part to be financially able to travel that much in their retirement ... and to have done the long haul first Shortly after retiring they downsized from decent sized house and large garden to a semi detached 2-bed with tiny garden that they could easily lock up and go away for weeks at a time.

 

I would like to add my good wishes too SS. I know that you have always been there when I have needed an ID. There seems to be nothing you don't know about.
We have got used to a postage stamp - back and front. It takes a while to adjust but I'm sure you will. We have friends of a similar age who are starting to dread the fact that they will have to make that shift before too long.
Enjoy all this precious new time and these new experiences. And don't forget to tell us how it's all panning out over the next year 'cos PLANT ID wouldn't be right without you,
Jenny namaste