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Subject Topic: Trespass, or just ignorant ?
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09/5/2017 at 11:18am
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You lot are quite bonkers. Imagine if we all sailed on the same crossing. It would NOT be boring would it.

It may be worth mentioning that the fence issue has been going on for a year now.

Said neighbour watched me plant up 30 box plants, then said " the fence is moving because the original owner had placed it too far over and he had lost 4" of garden.
There was no consultation and he replaced the fence and realigned whilst we were on holiday in Italy last August. WHY didn't he say something when I was planting it up!!!!!!!

THIS IS WHAT I AM DEALING WITH.

A very ignorant man all round.

I had to laugh...one of my fellow choir members was looking at some pictures and she said " is that an allotment"...no it's a garden tat just looks like one said I.

Anyway I am giving the man credence by continuing my objections...so end of story. My garden looks good and I can no longer see orange because it has been painted Farrow & Ball 'Tanners Brown'. Not ideal but it goes with the dark post running along the bottom of the fence.

A Ceanothus 'concha' is placed in front of each of the 4 posts, inbetween is a young box plant. Eventually the box will grown up, an the Ceanothus will spread to become a glorious blue each spring. Ceanothus is part of my planting scheme already and it will mature into a lovely 'show' in a couple of years.       

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10/5/2017 at 9:23am
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The hedge is planted...phew 32 box plants in, and its a relatively small garden.

So giddy this morning my azaleas are coming into bloom. They so remind me of the huge planters full of azaleas in the Uffizi Palazzo and San Lorenzo Chiesa last spring.

     

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Quote: Originally posted by BobCat10 on 10/5/2017
The hedge is planted...phew 32 box plants in, and its a relatively small garden.

So giddy this morning my azaleas are coming into bloom. They so remind me of the huge planters full of azaleas in the Uffizi Palazzo and San Lorenzo Chiesa last spring.




You should have used Leylandii


10/5/2017 at 11:28am
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Funny you should say that Bob61, this was my husbands suggestion too.

I'm happy with the box, its easier to tame,although it smells awfull!!!   

STET to my reference about the azalea. It was in the Palazza Vecchio that we saw them. I guess that rhododendron and azalea would have been brought back from the 'Grand Tour' and planted in the gardens of the grand houses in England. They are so beautiful.     

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Favourite areas: Provence, French Alps, Savigny (as a stop over for Southern France: Rhein valley as a stop over for Italy.   78



     


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Sorry to report Cat, absolutely no problems whatsoever with our neighbours this week. Mainly on account of the fact that neither side give a t*ss about gardening or even being in them.

So apropos nothing much really, here is our news.

This week we contented ourselves with pottering in the back. Got more italian cypress. Given that 3m high examples are £150 a pop, it'll be a while before ours get like these - view down to Shipley Glen and the Aire valley beyond from our back fence:



Not quite Second Chance Summer Tuscany, but still, a valiant effort by Baildon

Also been dressing the back door potting up jasmine for summer scent and a clematis for colour as we go in and out. Not everone's taste but we like them:



Scratch n Sniff



We like to saucer our summer pots but has anywhere got the matching ones for the NT pots? No chance. We've had to make do with something else. So if anyone sees any 30cm saucers in the proper NT taupe kindly ring nine double nine immediately as apparently the lack of the right ones is a national emergency

Never noticed the box smell. We've a pair of pompom box by the front door. Will have to go have a sniff.

This week's been "which garden centre today?". Discovered another for your list - Swincar at Guiseley. Well worth a visit.

Enjoy the weather

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Lake Annecy Aug 2017


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11/5/2017 at 9:42am
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Wow pom pom box are a fortune, I was looking at a really small one yesterday, it was £75, but there is a lot of work and quite a few years growth. I have my Cypress tree style instead of the ball's I had, as they are more Italianate.

I don't even know where Swincar is. It would have to good to drag me away from Woodbank at Harden.

To be honest I don't NEED anymore plants. I have shrubs which just need to grow in. I will of course constantly have a battle with slugs, so need pellets and plant food which can be bought anywhere.

I really fancy a 'crab apple' tree, a mature one that produces white blossom.

I'll 'google' Swincar and see where it is...thanks for the tip.

Are you coming to 'Night At The Opera' at All Sainst Parish church, Bingley this Saturday?     

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11/5/2017 at 11:13am
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Cat, I'm sorry, I think I mis-spoke. On reflection I think pompoms are one or more balls on a bare trunk? The fronts are ball box. We'd had pyramids before and fancied a change.



But yes, the price has to reflect years of care and maintainance, more so with the shaped ones. What I call our italian cypress are tree style - but about 1/20 of the size we could see in the classic Tuscan vista from the medieval villa we honeymooned in.



Swincar is http://swincarnurseries.co.uk/. Excellent for shrubs but we couldn't really do it justice last week. It was so bitterly cold I couldn't think straight.

Seen loads of lovely crab apples out and about - "malus"? Daleside at Killinghall is good for the smaller speciment tree. Helen wants one.

Can't make Bingley on Saturday. Off to see The Commitments at the Alhambra. The music brings back a time when I was a little mod tearing round Leeds

What a shame. That sounds like a great selection.

https://www.bradfordfestivalchoralsociety.org.uk/concert/springsummer-concert/

Good luck with it

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12/5/2017 at 11:23am
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Talk about diverse Mike....I'm in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at the Alhambra from 22nd - 24th JUNE!!!!

We had some publicity shots taken for the T&A last night. so shattered. Rehearsed from 7- 10:15. Last night we were setting the Tango scene, so it was full on dancing most of the evening.
http://www.bradford-theatres.co.uk/whats-on/dirty-rotten-scoundrels

Yes - the box you have are balls not pom poms...look lovely. The pots are beautiful, they look like National Trust.

I bought some Cypress style box from the chap on Henshaw Lane, Yeadon. I paid £35 each and the same ones in S Smiths were £75. They look spot on. If I knew how to attach a photo I'd post them.

Enjoy the show. Our concert is purely crowd pleasers not in the least high brow; Brindisi, Carmen, Nabucco... the only one that is less well know is the Lament (Dido - Purcell). I prefer to sing in Italian or French if I'm doing opera.

We start 'Dream of Gerontius' next week for the Autumns season concert; now that is 'high brow'...lovely to sing though if you're into classical choral, which I am.

Its all go for us.
Saturday - Concert rehearsal at 2, perform at 7:30. Sunday - Concert at St Monica's in Cottingley for the SVP (afternoon)
Sunday evening - Dirty Rotten Scoundrel singing rehearsal until 8pm.

The concert on Sunday is with the chamber choir I'm in (Chordiality)...you could come to that and have a glass of fizz in the afternoon.
http://www.chordiality.com/events.html

     


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Favourite areas: Provence, French Alps, Savigny (as a stop over for Southern France: Rhein valley as a stop over for Italy.   78



     


15/5/2017 at 3:43pm
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I was contacted on Saturday by someone who is involved with Calverley in bloom - they want photo of the garden for the 2018 calendar. I think this may have a direct link with the fact that one of the committee was in lmy local on Friday and saw the photographs (including the photograph of the ORANGE modification by my loevly neighbour).

I have also been asked to supply the lavender for Calverley Candle Company......

Sweet justice after all that :)

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Garda..perfect for MTB, Kayak, SUP and fell running training.
Favourite areas: Provence, French Alps, Savigny (as a stop over for Southern France: Rhein valley as a stop over for Italy.   78



     


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