Softies Garden

PA Day for the kids - no school. A day's holiday from work for Huffle. But it's NOT a Bank Holiday Grandad!

After a slow breakfast, we all went to a nearby garden of 10 acres full of loveliness. MrsM had a present to give to the lady of the garden, so she gave it to me to take so I could give Grandma and Grandad a Tour of her garden. Huffle and I went to see it a couple of years ago in the middle of Summer and it was beautiful.

The garden was created from nothing, in 2003, except a few trees here and there. Softie created the garden in 2003 and has every plant imaginable. There is a pine walk filled with hostas, heucheras and day lilies where she will add 40+ Halloween masks on the fence facing the road. There was a colour wheel garden which had got slightly out of hand but was still full of colour. Huge hydrangeas, lilacs and a multitude of tropical plants which she will have to dig up and take inside the house. There was a big pond full of fish (the boys found them), a golf hole, a boat and a pedalo. There were so many bees in the garden we were surprised when she said she didn't have a bee hive though I think her husband was wanting to do one.

Cupcake cosmos. Hydrangeas. Roses. Hibiscus. Raspberries

More hydrangeas. Squash. Dry stone walling and more hibiscus

It took us two hours to have a tour but she talked to us about nearly every plant. At the end I had a lesson on pruning hydrangea peniculata. She gave us a Day Lily and Grandad and I got a bag of seeds of four o'clocks. She also collected a load of persicaria seeds for me. It gave us lots of ideas for future garden projects. We had a lovely time and the boys got to have a good run around. We left because we were all starving but promised to visit in the Spring.

Dahlias. Hibiscus. Ipomoea. Hydrangeas. Leonitus. Walled veggie garden

Rams horn willow. Pond. Dead mans fingers. Hibiscus and roses and a lovely peeling bark tree that I forget the name of

Relaxing and hydrangeas

Dinner was out in Whitby and was lovely and we started a game of Monopoly Deal but couldn't finish it as our meals came too quick. Fish and chips, pizza, grown up grilled cheese, chicken club and chicken fingers. We came home and the boys played football. Grandad sat and pondered new paths and we had a cup of tea in the garden on the patio. Today's weather has been just nice. Not too warm, not too cool and not wet, though it did rain during the night.

Basketball practice before the football

This evening we relaxed and watched TV. XFactor and Gardeners World and a little bit of Gardening from Above.

Nice day but it did feel like a Saturday.

 

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