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LOOK THROUGH ANY WINDOW

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Look through any window – what do you see (showing my age now I guess ?)
In my case as I was in the middle of my ‘Conifer collections part 1’ blog the weather outside started to clear a little, so I opened the window (office where computer is situated and I have been residing most of the day) and stuck my camera out and started clicking, plus a couple of zoom shots. The following pics give a good indication to a large slice of the layout of my garden here at Foxhollow, always been a bit reluctant to do this sort of photography in the past as it takes away any perceived mystery that the garden might have had.

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Absolutely beautiful.... through any window :o)

24 Oct, 2009

 

You've got a lovely, well designed garden :-)

24 Oct, 2009

 

What a beautiful garden.

24 Oct, 2009

 

Really lovely Bluespruce, so neat and tidy - even the grass!
I haven't mowed mine for a few weeks and it looks terrible!

24 Oct, 2009

 

Smiling faces all around
Rushing through the busy town
lol

You have a lovely garden

24 Oct, 2009

 

Hollies fan! Hywel ?

Skillen - supposed to be a better day tomorrow, here in the south anyway, time to get that mower out ?

24 Oct, 2009

 

Your garden is Absolutley Gorgeous BS, All that colour without Flowers, Amazing.. and the Lawn is Perfect too. great design and planting, A Massive Well done ..

24 Oct, 2009

 

I grew up in the 60s Bluespruce. :o)

24 Oct, 2009

 

Hi again dee :0)
The lawn isn't so perfect when you get close, mainly couch, and other assorted weeds.
Hywel - possibly a little behind you - school in the 60's, excess in the 70's :0)

24 Oct, 2009

 

I was in school in the 60s - like you then. I was a teenager.

24 Oct, 2009

 

Hopefully I will though i'ts pretty sodden.

24 Oct, 2009

 

You are rightly proud of your garden BS, it's gorgeous either with or without the couch! You must spend an awful amount of time with the clippers in your hands?

24 Oct, 2009

 

what a beautiful garden bluespruce. you clearly have the passion.

24 Oct, 2009

 

I love it - thanks for showing us the whole thing! Great photos of a great garden. Do you allow visitors?? (hint, hint...)

24 Oct, 2009

 

you have a beautiful garden :))))

25 Oct, 2009

 

Absolutely stunning :))))

25 Oct, 2009

 

Very nice indeed.

25 Oct, 2009

 

Great from any viewpoint - always enjoy your garden photos.

25 Oct, 2009

 

About half of the whole thing Barbara, but certainly the best vista from the upstairs window. if you really want to visit sometime, just let me know, mid August, to mid September is when it's at its peak, but anytime would be fine, seeing as you're GoY royalty :0)))

25 Oct, 2009

 

Awww isn't that lovely..

25 Oct, 2009

 

The conifers themselves are the mystery! Great to share views of your noble obsession. How long has this garden been growing? i.e. how much bigger do you expect these trees to get? Will you eventually have a forest primeval?

25 Oct, 2009

 

Orgratis, started the garden over eleven years ago, but many plants came from a previous garden. Unlikely to ever look like a forest, as I'm forever regenerating the garden, moving stuff out and moving stuff in.

25 Oct, 2009

 

Not that I'm likely to remember, but what is that green geyser looking tree shooting up out of the ground, front, rightish? You're certainly making me pay more attention to the little starry limbed evergreens I see in the nurseries.

26 Oct, 2009

 

If you mean the tall fastigiate dark green one in the front bed, it's Taxus baccata 'Black Rod'

26 Oct, 2009

 

Lovely garden as always Bluespruce...it must be very calming to walk among your trees & heathers.

26 Oct, 2009

 

Castigate me for "fastigiate" if you must, but a quick peek in the dictionary says "rising to a pointed top"? This dark yew appears rather spreading rather than tapering? You are such a specialist, thanks.

26 Oct, 2009

 

Didn't even recognize the word 'geyser' at first Orgratis, so was just trying to determine which tree you were referring to. Some fastigiate plants don't always do what they are supposed to do :0)

26 Oct, 2009

 

Yew don't say!

27 Oct, 2009

 

very good :0)

27 Oct, 2009

 

Wow! Stunning! Nuff said!

30 Oct, 2009

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