Ravendale House

I seem to have been travelling down memory lane a lot recently what with teenage holidays in Wales and Sunday School concerts. I suppose that’s one draw-back of growing older, your single track road turns into a 3 lane motorway of memories to choose from.

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Well, to be more accurate, it’s really the tale of about a dozen sunflowers, but 2 different varieties.

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Don’t you just love ’em?

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In 1986 we moved into our first house that had a proper garden. It had belonged to a keen lady gardener who had sadly died, and we bought the house from her son.

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Here’s a good wheeze which I got from my good gardening chum, Sylvia. Sow dahlia seeds in Spring and treat them as annuals. Pity it’s taken me all these years to do it!

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Thought it was about time I posted some pictures, just to show this year hasn’t been all gloom and doom in the garden.

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Isn’t nature a wonderful thing? If I was ever in any doubt, what happened yesterday would have changed my mind.

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You don’t realise how big something is until you come to cut it down. The old tree was a good example of that, but this time I’m actually talking about my buddleja globosa which is another casualty of the harsh winter.

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It’s still probably a bit early to do this, but today I’ve been counting the cost of the harsh winter.

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Back in November I wrote with pride about my lovely red geraniums and how they were still flowering. Then in December I wrote again about how they were suffering from a combination of geranium rust and extreme cold. In short most of them looked dead.

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