Cheery Pics

I've had to chop most of this off to make it small enough, but hope it still brings some cheer. The bees are enjoying the heather, toadflax & daffodils too...

Thanks for the help Tweetypie!
 

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Really must get out with the camera more. Found this from last Autumn at Sezincote (lovely gardens.)
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Lovely, very uplifting.
Here is a snap from Kew's orchid festival
 

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Lovely pics, nature is so soothing. I love the way the magnolia is framing the whole image, what a great photo Icemaiden. Is that an acer Rick? I'd never heard of Sezincote, so I've just looked it up. Reminds me of Brighton Pavilion! We used to stop off for a few nights in Singapore en route to see my bro in Australia and I always made sure we went to the public gardens, one of them specialised in orchids, a special place. I am not very good at keeping orchids although I love them. My elderly MIL, in a nursing home, can still keep them on the go from one year to the next.
 
I never managed orchids until I read about keeping them in old fashioned goldfish bowls. The curved-in sides of the bowl hold the aerial roots out of the water and support the plant as well as adding humidity around it. You put a bit of gravel in the base plus the orchid compost it comes with to give some stability, and add rainwater up to where the aerial roots start. A very weak solution of orchid flower food when the bud forms is also good. Previously I could never get the watering right - it was either drowning or drying out. Now it goes a week or two before needing more water.
I nearly killed this one last summer but once in the bowl it was much happier.
Sorry this has come out sideways!

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Aha - perhaps when all this is over I can try it as I'm not sure if goldfish bowls are on the list of essentials!
 
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Aha - perhaps when all this is over I can try it as I'm not sure if goldfish bowls are on the list of essentials!
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Dozens on ebay amazingly cheap. Apparently people buy them in large numbers to make centre pieces for wedding receptions (in the olden days when there were more than 5 people per wedding and they were allowed a reception.)
 
Love all the flowery photo's and Icemaiden - the magnolia is amazing!
 

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Thanks Tweetypie :-)
The magnolia is two storeys high now. It rather crept up in size without us noticing! It is beautiful though...
 
Its near Morton-in the-Marsh and Batsford arboretum Icemaiden.
https://www.sezincote.co.uk/
An inspired 'company man' built it in Mogul Indian style. The house is lovely (as the gardens) with an uncomfortable realisation that you are looking directly at the fine spoils of the East India Tea Co but it is presented very humbly as a piece of history and is very moving. Sezincote and Batsford are a stones throw away from each other and would make a journey for the day well worth while.
The staircase inside is a very early experiment in cast iron - it floats!
 
One for the list when we can go out again Rick
How about this a flying Peacock
 

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Here is another one. A friend sent them to me.
another friend has a peacock, Igor on her farm, by Mildenhall. One day they noticed his eye was shut and puffy so a trip to the vet was in order. Now you can't get a peacock in a pet carrier, the tail just gets in the way. So they put a collar and lead around his body so he couldn't fly, got him in a car.
Then walked him into the vet, to say he created a sensation was an understatement.
The vet's was a normal 3 bed semidetached 1930's style house, so that gives you an idea of the waiting room. She walked in and a little girl said "she' beautiful, can I touch her" to which my friend said " it is a boy and you can touch his back gently, at which point Igor realised he was somewhat a celebrity and out came his tail, and full display mode, which filled the room, plus a few peacock shrieks, it scared the dogs witless, and the vets face who opened the surgery door at that minute was a joy to behold.
Problem was nothing more than a grass seed under his eye lid, but he insisted on full display mode in the surgery. She said it was worthy of an entire episode in All Creatures Great and Small
 

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