I decided today that once this wedding is done and dusted I’m going to let the garden go fallow , natural and wild. Hmm. Probably not but just now that seems like a plan.
Good news is lots of the bedding plants and filling out. We’re still dead heading to keep the blooms at bay but that stops next week to give them a three week run to the big day, hopefully our timing is exact… And the rain hasn’t stopped us either.
Still as we’ve already agreed there will be a lot of green stuff with different structures so to the untrained eye it will probably look ok.
For the wedding planner – apparently there is one; I thought we were winging it – I climbed onto the roof and took this.
Actually it was from the attic but still. I definitely think we have reached peak lawn, it’s down hill after this.
We’ve allowed ourselves some colour.
A few dahlias – which recently I’ve taken to calling geraniums, goodness knows why. Fortunately the Textiliste realises and can interpret my ramblings.
There are daisies, some geraniums, cosmos, godetia and the occasional rose.
As usual dog sniffs out the best smells; most of his days seem to be head down. At least he’s not burning brown piss-circles into the lawn.
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It’s looking glorious! Can’t wait to see it all blooming on that special day 🥰
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Here’s hoping…
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😊
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It looks so amazing! It could win prizes for the best garden in the world!!
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Oh now that’s ott. Top three perhaps….!
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Looking wonderful. That lawn is a work of art.
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I hope it holds its value…
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Love the diamond mowing pattern on the lawn! Alice Through the Looking Glass-esque
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In a way the whole thing feels fantastical and surreal. If only I could script the ending, too….
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There must be a competition you can enter it into. It looks smashing!
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Most anxious father of the groom?
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That’s amazing – I can’t see any sign of dog’s nappy (diaper)!
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No, he’s a burier…
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Magnificent!
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Dog, or the lawn?
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nudge, nudge, wink, wink say no more
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I see through you!
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What a lovely place for a wedding.
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If only I’d thought to charge….
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Looks great, Geoff
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Thanks
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It’s look lovely, jubbly!!
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Wow…it’s perfection! Like something out of a movie (or even better:)
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Well, I hope we don’t have to photoshop it at the end, though much more stress and I might just send my hologram to sub for me on the day…
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Looks fabulous and that lawn is lush.
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It is at the mo….
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A beautiful garden! It’ll make the perfect setting for the wedding
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Thank you Sadje. We are keeping everything crossed
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👍👍👍
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I think you’re pretty much locked in now. After you put in all these hours making it look beautiful, it’s hard for me to imagine, things will change that much after the wedding.
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I’m not sure if it’s a thing in America, Pete, but that’s what we call a commentator’s curse….
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I know about that curse. Television announcers here are famous for saying things like, “He’s made his last thirty-seven free throws in a row, or it hasn’t rained in forty-two days.” We all know what happens next.
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Exactly. My wife knows how tense some sporting event has become but my incoherent fury if they say how A or B has it in the bag, just before the meteorite hits….
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Peak lawn it is. I sometimes have fellow fallow feelings
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I’m sure Jackie beats them out of you, much as Linda does me.
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🙂
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The attic shot is brilliant! 😀 … Dog probably reckons his life isn’t worth it. 😀
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Oh I think dog appreciates his essential importance to the family glue. And I probably should take more shots from on high…
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Your garden is gorgeous, Geoff!
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Thank you kindly.
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Your shot from the roof shows the glory of your garden. If ir rains on ‘the day’, will you have tents outdoors or move inside…or shoot yourself?
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Ha! No guns. We have a marquee which rather defeats the lawn work of course. If the forecast is fir rain they we may add covered walks to the French doors so guests can use the house too. Hopefully only some elderly rellies will want that shelter as, in the heat, it is the coolest place.
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Good plan!
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As if you would ever let your marvelous yard revert to a “natural(ie weed filled) look” Here we are plagued by rabbits, as are all around us. They are eating every flower in sight, including so called rabbit resistant ones. May you be spared.
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Not a rabbit within miles. Foxes though remain their own challenge.
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We could use a few foxes to get the rabbits.
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Ah if only we could send you a box..
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I will trade you a woodchuck for a fox.
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Not sure what that is… I shall go and research. But if its as fertile and aggressive as the pesky parakeets we now have in droves I think not…
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Your guests are in for a treat!
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Well, in a way I hope they just have an overall wow and don’t check the details,…
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I’m glad you weren’t really out on the roof – that’s going a bit far for the wedding planner! Dog seems to find lots of good smells out there!
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He’s become a sniffoseur in his dotage
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🙂 🙂
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Looks fabulous. All that hard work has paid off in spades 😉
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Well, I keep saying ‘so far’ and we are where we wanted to be, so in that sense it’s doing well, but in reality we’re only at the quarter finals…
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Haha, Geoff, the Dog is waiting for the week before the wedding to piss brown circles on the lawn. He has conspired with Murphy. You garden looks splendid and you are a great dad to go to so much trouble for your son’s wedding. Note to self, never agree to a wedding at home.
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Oh if you need a note to excuse you, let me know. Mind you, you’ll have enough of a handful with 6 sets of new in laws to deal with…!
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Holy Hannah, Geoff! It’s posi-lutely gorgeous! I’m awed. I was wondering about the source of view for those photos. Then I chuckled to imagine you up on the roof taking pictures. I’ll bet your wife was having a fit. LOL. Take care. Hugs on the wing!
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My wife tends to try and pretend I’m not having one of my badly thought through ‘good ideas’… I never was very good at ‘if A then B…’
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