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Offline Hugo

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« Reply #750 on: October 27, 2016, 12:49:16 pm »
Thanks for posting those photos DVT as I was wondering how things were looking now especially in the Acer garden.
We went there at the end of October last year and it was spectacular.     $good$

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« Reply #751 on: October 27, 2016, 02:34:33 pm »
DVT,......Excelent photos,.....  $good$


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« Reply #752 on: October 27, 2016, 07:11:18 pm »
Thanks for the comments - the acers have really shown well this week, so hopefully the good weather will continue for a while longer.  Plenty of colour elsewhere also, defies the calendar!  From Tuesday (1st) the entry fee is halved (good) and you can also bring your dog (arguably not so good!).

I'm there Monday 31st and Wednesday 2nd this next wee, then back to Wednesdays and Thursdays from thereon.  Say hello if you're there, I'm the one with Dave T on my badge!

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« Reply #753 on: October 28, 2016, 02:34:50 pm »
Lovely to see your photos of Bodnant DVT.
We are back from a holiday to find the acers looking great, but also, quite amazingly, the delphiniums!
We watched Monty Don on Gardeners World saying that if you cut them back after the first flowering you could get a second crop. I never would have believed this result though on 28th October.
We mustn't have had any frost yet.

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« Reply #754 on: October 28, 2016, 09:53:24 pm »
Autumn is such a lovely time with all the trees and bushes changing colour and those Acers are brilliant.  The Crafnant Valley was looking good when I saw it very briefly the other week and I bet the Lledr Valley is also looking good at this time of the year.



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« Reply #755 on: December 29, 2016, 10:06:09 pm »
It's still December and the daffodils are out in Bodnant!  It's a variety called "Cedric Morris" and they're in the Winter Garden.

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« Reply #756 on: January 07, 2017, 10:05:52 am »
Brilliant photos and excellent article about the Bodnant Winter Garden in the February 2017 edition of a magazine named "The English Garden" ... yes, English - the editor needs geography lessons!!!

Strangely the cover photo is almost identical to one I took a couple of weeks ago ... no, it;s not my photo in the magazine.


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« Reply #757 on: February 05, 2017, 09:40:18 pm »
Some gorgeous things out at Bodnant today despite it being early Feb.

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« Reply #758 on: February 17, 2017, 04:57:47 pm »
Signs of spring.

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« Reply #759 on: March 06, 2017, 03:21:54 pm »
A lovely spring day.

Offline Hugo

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« Reply #760 on: April 03, 2017, 01:20:13 pm »
It's a good sign of Spring when the Daffs and Magnolias are out but the Magnolia Stellata has already started to lose its petals in the winds we are having now.

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« Reply #761 on: April 05, 2017, 09:44:02 am »
So pretty, those magnolias Hugo.

A different type of gardening here, not gardening as we know it!
Back to supervise action man in our garden tomorrow.   ;D

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« Reply #762 on: April 12, 2017, 06:37:44 pm »
There was a very nice clip of Bodnant Gardens on the ITV  Wales news at 6.00pm and the garden looked in fabulous condition.      Was it DVT that was getting interviewed?        $good$

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« Reply #763 on: April 12, 2017, 08:35:25 pm »
Yes it was me, guilty as charged!!!

Spent all day yesterday in Furnace Wood, then all day today - will be there again tomorrow signing autographs (!!!)  ;)

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« Reply #764 on: April 12, 2017, 11:02:48 pm »
Famous at last DVT     $good$