Bare bones of Winter

9 Jul '08 11:16 am

I've just come back to 90+ F. and immediately started watering pots and plants in need. I've left a slow flow on the gunnera and a sprinkler on the lawn. So many plants are in bloom now that weren't when I left. I'm eager to get out there with a camera.

Thank you all for the kind wishes. Makes a bloke feel glad to be at home. This is also my first time on a computer in weeks. I've got to dig out the discs and film cards. Seventeen gardens visited. No two the same. Each exceptional in some way or other. As soon as I catch my breath I will post some photos.

9 Jul '08 5:37 pm

Mark, you're the man! Welcome back, veteran of seventeen gardens!

9 Jul '08 9:03 pm

Welcome back Mark. I am so looking forward to your photos.

10 Jul '08 8:12 am

Post a new thread of all the gorgeous gardens you visited - can't wait Very Happy

11 Jul '08 6:57 am

Myself, I've just returned from 5 days on the Limpopo. Very relaxing, but few photos and no dramatic trees or rivers in flood this time... We look forward to your report back!

11 Jul '08 8:19 am

Gad, welcome back to you too Jack! I hope the trip was fun and restorative. A river with a name like the "Limpopo" just sounds like it should be slow moving. Dramatic flooding? On the "Limpalongslowslow"?! No way.

I've gotten so many welcome backs and its been so long since I've been on a computer that I had to check the beginning of this thread to find out where I've been squatting. Don't worry me and the rest of this lot should have our shanty town dismantled and off the premises soon. Before I go I should tell you I did just download photos from the Coleton Fishacre garden on the coast of Devon England. Loved it. Here's my forwarding address to those pictures: http://forums.mooseyscountrygarden.com/viewtopic.php?t=1640 Okay, I'm going now. I'm looking forward to hearing more about your nre plans for your place.

13 Jul '08 4:28 am

Squatters... well, I won't call you that, Mark, which saves me the bother of having to disapprove! It was great in a rather dull time in my garden to host all the excitement. I will be scooting off whilst waiting for my pictures below to post to see your travel site, having just returned from a quick visit to Johannesburg. And then I will post a few Limpopo pictures that share the serenity of that landscape.

Here, meanwhile, are a few pics - with Mark in mind, I must admit - of the aloes which got to flowe this year before being hit by the cold....

13 Jul '08 5:24 am

Orange no less and probably a meter or two tall? Nice. I've just had a much smaller Aloe that's been crawling around my dry bed for the last several years bloom for the first time? Maybe it liked the recent heat wave. I got a couple of pictures around the garden yesterday. I've got a little work to do out there, especially more deadheading, a little pruning back and then a clean up.

Heres a cheer to encourage you to load the next batch of holiday photos:

Hey Hey
Ho Ho
Lets see more pics
from Lim po po!

Go team!

13 Jul '08 7:15 am

Grazie. More aloes and others on my Limpopo thread under Garden Tours - remembering my original title of 'Nature as a Garden'!!

13 Jul '08 7:38 pm

Those aloes are magnificent!

Bare bones of Winter

Hello and its good to be back!

Me too!

Welcome back Mark!

Thanks to Jack (& to my fellow squatters on your thread)

Thanks to my guests!

South Africa sure has some great Aloes!

Aloes etc.