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TerryJ
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May 5 2007, 04:09 PM Post #1 |
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Hi all - just been looking at all your lovely gardens.....how do you all ever get time to do all this AND paint/wax
Anyway - here's a bit of my back garden.....you can just see the little waterfall top left of pond...... The patch on right is covered in strawberry plants now. Nearer the house, we've got a "patio" with table chairs and the obligatory brolly. And that's where I'm putting all my tubs to grow patio veg and herbs.... At the end of the garden is a HUGE conifer - it's taller than the size of a 4-storey block of flats (I know that cos there is a 4-story block of flats behind it....) but it is beautiful...... And the roses round the arch are a deep cerise colour - millions of them.... Can't do the garden myself now - so most of you know of Kev the gardener (blooming godsend I can tell you)...so I just do the supervisory bit..... ![]() Love x
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Sally
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May 5 2007, 05:39 PM Post #2 |
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What a beautiful garden Terry
Kev is obviously very good at what he does, it is so tidy and the seating area has a gorgeous view, must be lovely to sit out in the sunshine
Wish I was nearer I'd pop over for a cuppa
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justjen
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May 5 2007, 05:49 PM Post #3 |
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I always thought Kev was your hubby , Terry!! What a lovely garden Terry ..... it is hard work though isnt it ... I could do with a Kev ... Has he got a brother?? Jenx |
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Elsie
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May 5 2007, 05:50 PM Post #4 |
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Beautiful garden Terry I can see me sitting there with me bottle of red wine
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TerryJ
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May 5 2007, 07:25 PM Post #5 |
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Hi Sally, Jen and Elsie and
Jen - it's really funny - when I was married, him and his wife Sue were our neighbours...then we moved away and lost touch.I put an ad in Tesco for help in the garden and he answered it - this is 17 years on by now - and I didn't recognise his voice.....it was so funny when he came over to see the garden...and we realised who we were - so now him and Sue (and they now have two lovely kiddies)and I are friends again.... He actually isn't a gardener as such - but works shifts - so on his days off, he gets bored and does odd gardening/handyman jobs.... Me? I'm young, free and single now - with one of the words crossed out
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.....and I'm not free, I have very expensive tastes (believe that and you'll believe anything) and I'm not single, cos I like being on my own......so that puts the mockers on that one But everyone should have a Kev!!!!!!!! Er - and the garden's full of forget me nots now - so not so tidy - but I do love them and the whole garden is designed for wildlife anyway...... Love x yep - if you all lived closer you could come over and we could all watch Kev hard at work........
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ezchile
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May 5 2007, 08:22 PM Post #6 |
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Why does that statement put me in mind of that Diet Coke break advert.. ![]() x Col! |
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justjen
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May 5 2007, 08:37 PM Post #7 |
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Wow Terry... that must have been fate you lot meeting up like that again eh?? Lovely though!! Jenx |
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TerryJ
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May 5 2007, 08:56 PM Post #8 |
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JenFunny Colin - I was only just thinking the same thing a minute ago...I've obviously been thinking too much about the gardening....must ask Sue if Kev can bring along a hard hat next time
Love x
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Sally
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May 5 2007, 09:10 PM Post #9 |
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Me too
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Poppy
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May 6 2007, 10:00 AM Post #10 |
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Wonderful garden Terry, it lookes perfect to sit and painti in? Poppy |
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TerryJ
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May 6 2007, 11:32 AM Post #11 |
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Hi all.... I never paint outside Poppy - hayfever, flying thingys - all very nice - but not when they land on your hand when painting a straight line , too hot, too chilly, too windy, changing light, not to mention Willow wanting to jump up and sit on the paper or drink all the water..... And I have to say - when I'm out there - there's so much going on around the pond - I'm totally distracted...... Do you manage to paint outside??????? I potted up some lobelia (cascade) parsley and salad bowl lettuce...can't wait for all the seeds to pop up...... We're due a bit of rain this week - so that'll be good for them all...... Love x
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Poppy
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May 6 2007, 12:32 PM Post #12 |
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Whenever i get the chance i love to paint outside Terry. I find when the buddliea and clematis are out that gives me so much inspiration. My neighbour asked me why i wasn't out painting her apple blossom( mine fell down last year sadly) and i had to admit there wasn't the shading or inspiration yet of the shrubs etc to paint? I like to be secretly situated, but obviously not as she has sen me painting the last couple of summers? Besides i have to get a new table to hold my paints? I gave Jakes yellow plastic one to the baby toddler next door who is an absolute joy to watch in his garden through the shrub groweth? BUT if i had a pond in my garden i couln't sit and paint or relax at all in it?
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Sally
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May 6 2007, 12:54 PM Post #13 |
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I did some waxing last year in the garden, got the extension cable out and waxed on the patio table, it was lovely
but a lot of hassle getting all set up Sally
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TerryJ
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May 6 2007, 07:28 PM Post #14 |
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Hi Poppy and Sally.....that's the thing - it really is so distracting in my garden.....in a nice way.....the burgundy damselfly that sits on my hand, found a boyfriend yesterday and as they - er, danced? - they formed a perfect upside down heart shape.....it was really lovely (not that I was watching
)And I've got my art desk upstairs in my bedroom - so to lug that lot down, sit down and find it starts raining (catches you unawares here in Devon) just isn't worth the effort...... Love x
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TerryJ




Kev is obviously very good at what he does, it is so tidy and the seating area has a gorgeous view, must be lovely to sit out in the sunshine
Wish I was nearer I'd pop over for a cuppa
Elsie
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3:51 PM Jul 11


