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[Trillium]

Have nipped over from the BBC site - thanks Obelixx for the tip.  Looking forward to reading all about your gardens and experiences.

I'm in a fit of over-excitement because my meconopsis grandis have just started flowering - my first time with them and I'm bowled over.  I've been watching them grow at Dunham Massey in Cheshire for the past year or so and just love them to bits.  I do grow veg in parts of my garden, but it's mostly a shrub/perennial garden.

If you'd like to have a look go to www.trilliumsgarden.blogspot.com

With best wishes

Trillium

[Svea]

welcome trillium :)
grab a cuppa tea, roy is on tea duty today - make mine a milk plus one:D

[Trillium]

Delighted to.  Mine's a very large mugful with a good splash of milk.  Preferably drunk outside with soil coated hands, with the sun on my back and a warm glow from an hour of steady digging.

But as misfortune would have it I'm in the office (but sneaked home at lunchtime to blog the poppies...).  I know you shouldn't wish your life away, but retirement  and life spent in the garden seems very tempting indeed...

[Obelixx]

Lovely photos Trillium.  Don't drink tea so I'll have a black coffee please or maybe a mint tea.   Trouble with retirement is you get busy.   I "retired" 16 yrs ago when made redundant and now have a 10yr old daughter plus husband, house and garden and other interests.  Don't know how I found the time to go to work.

After these last few months of general domestic upset - major house repairs - I'm beginning to think house and garden both too big.  This won't last long though.  Just need a few good nights' sleep..............................

[Roy Bham UK]

;) Hi Trillium, welcome to the mad house :o ;D it's de-caf tea and coffee when I'm on duty but between you and me I have a bottle of red under the large terra cotter pot that I use as a seat for special occasions. :-X

[Trillium]

Obbelix - the house may be too big, but the garden - surely not!  My aim is smaller house, bigger garden (at least an acre).  There's the hazel coppice for a start, then the damp garden leading to the stream, and the great meadow full of wild flowers -  leading effortlessly to the herbaceous border.  From there to a not too large formal area with box edging just for the fun of it and to the (not big) house with a large yorkstone patio/courtyard to hang around in.  Off to one side the herb garden and the vegetable garden/smallholding with chickens, geese and maybe a goat or two. 

Dreams, sweet dreams!

[wardy]

Sun on your back Trillium!  Where are you gardening?  It's been flipping brass monkeys oop t'north  ;D

Welcome to the fold.  Mine's double caffienated, quadruple sugar  ;D

Roy  glad to hear you're a red drinker too.  I'm going to take a box of wine to our shed to declare officially open.  Went to fix a broken window the other day and the pane of polycarb got whipped out of OH's hand by wind and broke in two  :( 

He put me another shelf in the other day Roy.  Soon there'll be no room to shift  ;D

[Roy Bham UK]

;D How strange I have been given a kit/wall/cab 2 day that will fit nicely in my new shed (large enough to hold bottles :o ;D)

[Trillium]

Hi all and thanks for the warm welcome.

I'm just north of Warrington, so yes, it's been nippy lately.  But the garden has a 6ft high brick wall round it so when the sun does come out it's very sheltered.

I'm one for the red as well, but I'd never get any peace if I took it to the shed as it's OH's tipple too!

BTW - photos are up on the blog of the meconopsis - fully open today - yippee!

[wardy]

Roy   Have you started your collection yet?  Sounds great!  You'll be able to enjoy a good glass of red after your hard labours.  Idyllic  :)   I'm on the lookout for old oven trays as I want to cook stuff on the lotty.  I'm going to drive folks made with garlicky, onion smells wafting over the plots  ;D

[Roy Bham UK]

;D Wardy My Barbi is a permanent resident up the Lottie as we much have fun and leasure mixed with Lottie ;D

[wardy]

Ey Roy I've got one like that.  It's a right big one!  Kettle or kettler - sommat like that.  Got it for £5. 

[Roy Bham UK]

 ;D Tee hee mine was free, chucked out with the rubbish ;D

[wardy]

You lucky thing  ;D  Hoping for some lotty freebies as a pal is having a clear out.  He says he's got some fence posts and fencing wire.