And Now For Something Completely Different.

Big change are take shoes here in the blooming garden and difficult decisions have had to be made . I have n’t blogged for a long metre as I have n’t had the affectionateness to spell about the garden screw that we will be leave behind it and as each new bloom open I knew I was seeing it for the last time . So I found it painful to compose about it .

Readers of my web log will remember my boy , Bertie’sjetty gardenat Pin Mill . Bertie and his lovely Beatrice impress to a beautiful part of south west France two long time ago . We visited them and fell in love with the place too . So we have grease one’s palms an ancient mediaeval house there – well , to be precise , we have buy a mediaeval ruin which has caused phratry and Friend to reckon we are crazy . Perhaps we are . We are Francophiles and have always dreamed of having a home in France and now having our loved ones there is the time to do it . Throwing myself into this projection unhinge me from the deduction for the garden here . After three weeks away during a drought this summertime it looked dreadful , so leave behind it for weeks or more at a clip is unthinkable . So I have had to do all the genial and excited gymnastics want to lend myself to the place where I can leave our endearing home and garden . I never thought this would happen . But the new proprietor are enthusiastic about the garden so it will preserve to be well loved .

Looking for somewhere new in the UK , was disheartening . Throughout the summertime here , house prices corkscrew and there was a bidding warfare for any desirable properties . The whole buying and merchandising outgrowth has been long drawn- out and stressful as these affair tend to be . But eventually , we were lucky enough to find and stop up a house that we think will accommodate us very well . The garden is quite modest and it needs a set of work to get it as I want it ; but that ’s OK , I love a projection . The front garden will be my wintertime garden ; at the moment it is just gravel . The back garden has just a big , misshapen magnolia , a few ugly conifer and a large clump ofPhyllostachys , the invasive sort of bamboo which care me rather . I love bamboo , but only the nice , well - behaved , clump - forge ones . And there is a Leylandii hedge . And there is a large surface area of decking . So all in all , passably awful . I will show you photograph when we move and all hint will be welcome .

So in January we will be leaving here . I shall finally carry on with my web log . Although the garden we have bought in France and the one we are buy here are not blooming at all , of course , in time they will . It will be different because I have an acre at the mo and I turn loads from seeds and cuttings and I buy whatever select my fancy , as I have plenty of space . Readers of my blog will cognise that the garden here is wad full of plants so that I have gorgeous blooms all year around . I have n’t bought any plants for nearly a year so I have backdown symptom . Prowling pear-shaped nursery is my favourite job , so I am look forward to choose plant for my new garden . I may have to ask for advice , as I have never garden in a little space before . I presuppose you have to be very disciplined and only mature the choicest and the best . Anyway , I shall show you both my new gardens when the fourth dimension comes , or the spaces where my gardens will be , and will welcome proffer . I might even give you a peek into my fresh houses .

In the meantime I am busy as there is so much to see to and endless categorization out and give away . I got held up for some weeks because I fracture my ankle by cycling too tight down a narrow lane and end up in a ditch . So instead of packing I have been reclining on a couch asking the Pianist to peel me grapes . It took him a week to clear out the loft in between grape peeling . harness the shed drum full of a mountain of plant stack was a incubus , I wrote about the shedhere . I have no approximation why I think I might ever postulate yard and G of works pots . We had to get a skip for them and all the other plenty of rubbish we seem to have accumulate . And the garage was a horror story too . But getting rid of all your detritus is very liberating , I have bemuse away clothes that I have n’t wear for twenty years and I am baffled as to why I keep them so long . Piles of salutation cards from loved ones have been ruthlessly fling . Theatre programmes from long forgotten carrying into action , horticulture magazines going back thirty geezerhood ; it ’s endless the stuff I have collect . Getting disembarrass of so much light ballast is skillful for the soul , but it read ages . wad now takes up all our time and Christmas here is going to be spend walled in by boxes and boxes . We are have sempiternal treatment about each other ’s ridiculous hoarding habit . I interrogate his suitcases full of cables and CDs that he can not play because he has nothing to play them on . He require to know why I have nearly 400 horticulture Holy Writ and four big box of jugs . Between you and me I am a routine puzzled about all those jugs myself . And then I have a serious succulent addiction ; the house is disappearing under seas of succulents as it is too cold for them alfresco . And then I have nightmares about all the plants in the greenhouse ; I have no theme how I am go to move all these plants .

Anyway , I will see you all on the other side in my novel gardens . Have a wonderful Christmas and a joyful New Year and I am look forwards to catching up with you all once the move has occur .

In the lag , here are just a few of the wonderful plants that I am very sad to say goodbye to .

48 Responses toAnd Now For Something Completely Different.

Dear Chloris , Happy Christmas ! I loved reading this blog – shades of “ drive over lemon ” by Chris Stewart ! Have you take it?Sorry we did n’t get to meet again after I brought you the albuca Frizzle Sizzle institute . Will you be able to take them to France with you ? The albuca you kindly gave me is fly high in my indoor garden . Is it Nelsonii ? I forgot what you said!I am staying in Queensland with my blood brother and family for Christmas and New Year , and wo n’t be home until 18 January , by which fourth dimension you will likely have set forth Crown House 😪 .I look forward to hearing about your mediaeval ruin in France ! All the best with your newfangled adventure!Best wish , Fran ( Gregor -Smith )

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Changes , changes ! It ’s always hard to say goodbye , but it sound like you have some not bad architectural plan ahead , too . felicitous Holidays and best compliments during this changeover prison term .

Coincidentally , I was wondering where you ’d catch to earlier this calendar week . Moving is alternately traumatizing and freeing , as you ’ve discover . It ’s more than a small overpowering when you ’re in the midst of the appendage . I shed many of the things you ’re in the process of discarding myself 12 years ago this calendar month when we last moved . Books were the biggest hurdle for me – while I kept most of my garden ledger , I jettison almost all the respite and have gayly adjusted to a digital library . I ’ve no doubt that you ’ll have loads of play with your 2 new garden once you ’ve made the chemise . honorable wishes with the changeover and I hope you bask the holidays despite the affray . I front forward to see your new story unfold .

Oh it ’s good to study a post from you Chloris – I had been wondering where you had got to . You must be filled with mixed emotion but you have so much to look forrader to . Maybe you will be able to take a few cuttings , air division and come with you if not to France to your new house in the UK . We need a major sort out too even though we are not planning a move but we have both gather a batch of dust over the last 35 class or so . I have a pile of pots and horticulture magazines too and as for himself ’s garage – that is another story . Good chance with your movement and look forward to hearing about your raw garden next year ,

And Now For Something Completely Different.