Visit to Ashwood Nurseries and John Massey's Private Garden

What a beautiful place to wander around Daylily, lovely photos, and your granddaughter is delightful, and now you have a lovely blank garden to fill up with plants, how nice.

Hi Cinderella, thankyou, its my daughter in the photos, ooh you making feel old, lol, yes im looking forward to planting but have quite a few gaps around the garden too after reshaping it last year, a bit daunting but will thoroughly enjoy it. Ashwood garden is beautiful, i tried my best with the piccys.

Oh I do apologise Daylily, should have realised that ! If I had concentrated more on the writet up I would have known. Please forgive me.

No problem cinderella, thankyou very much for your comments.!

Beautiful gardens Daylily so immaculate,you've done a great job with the pictures wonderful, hubbies done a good job too room for lots more plants, or maybe a few daylilies:-)))

Thanks Simbad, yes Ashwoods is a lovely garden isnt it, oooh not sure what im going to plant yet in my new border, its a complete new border as the grass was right up to fence before we shaped it, also needs improving as it was topsoil bought in (thats another story maybe for a 'before and after' blog) am excited though and would love to completely cover the boundary and enclose the garden in time!! (im in the right place for inspiration and enthusiasm).

what a beautiful place, your photos/blog are great, so is your little one, she looks very sweet, like the way tou dug the border in your garden

Your photos do show what a great garden it is, just wish I could have got there.

That's a lovely blog Daylily! Your granddaughter looks bubbly and joyous, I bet you love her very much! The garden is wonderful isn't it....beautifully planted and immaculately kept with a rich variety of 'scenes' and 'themes'. I particularly loved the photos of the woodland garden (no surprises there!). Thanks very much, I loved your blog!

Hi Karensusan, thanks for comments, but its my daughter not my granddaughter, you are the second to say that, lol, not just yet thanks, my eldest 17 and Hannah in the photo is 9. Yes, Ashwoods is a stunning garden!!

Hi stroller, the next open day is July 23rd and September 24th, check out the website ashwoodnurseries.com, its definitely worth a visit, have you been before?

Smashing blog Daylily, and some great pics. I havent been there, but will certainly make the effort now! I particularly like the out of season little "snowdrop" that keeps popping up in your pictures..Ive never had that variety lol, just the male specimen!
Glad you met up with Sticki, nice lady!
Isnt it lovely when your OH makes such a wonderful effort for you both in the garden..my OH LOVES digging (???!!) and thoroughly approves of the good job done. A man after his own heart.

lol...I am so sorry! I get so used to grandchildren in photos on here! You are just a child yourself then!! :))

Hi Tet, thank you for your lovely comments, was lovely meeting Sticki. Ive got hubby quite into gardening aswell now, keeping it nice and neat and tidy anyway(as best we can, lol), hes getting into a few plants too, likes bamboo and grasses, i will tell him that your hubby approves!! Check out Ashwoods website for the open dates. ps Shes a beauty that little 'snowdrop' in more ways than one!!

Hi Karensue, i forgive you, i dont know about being a kid myself though, will be 44 this year in September, thanks for your lovely comments too!! :^)

Funny that, cos my OH likes Bamboo very much too. Must be a man thing! I'm 48 myself Daylily, but my two are all grown up now, 21 and 19!

Your photos are beautiful...I too love the woodland photos and all the grasses are looking wonderful and healthy.

It was nice you could meet Sticki as well...a bonus to your day and then to come home to a nicely dug over border... it can't get any better :) Happy planning and purchasing for your new border, Daylily.

Great blog Daylily, it all looks beautiful and I love the barge in the background. Looking forward to seeing your garden planted up :-)

My OH likes bamboo too..we have a Zebrina which he is inordinately proud off, trims it himself! Mind you, he still calls it that "thingy at the bottom of the garden" lol!

sorry its taken me so long to find this ~ had to go to devon the day after visiting this garden

daylily ~ these pictures are really lovely. i may have one of the bit you missed but got to wait till OH has put them on his computer before i can transfer them to mine.

your daughter was lovely ~ both of you were so friendly and chatty. you look younger than 44 to me ~ very young i thought!!! my birthday is also september but sadly im not 43 any more!!!

im hoping to go again ~ its such a lovely place ~ cafe and shop well worth visiting too!!!

Hi Karensue, as you can see we went 7 and half years between our two girls so still a few young years left yet, i wondered if the 63 was your year of birth. I was thinking the same about the 'man thing' when i said about the bamboos and grasses, i suppose a bit more matcho than flowers.:^)

Hi Whistonlass, thank you for your comments, i am looking forward to planting the border but still not quite sure what to put yet, i have a philadelphus and weigela, and a Stipa Gigantea which hopefully will be going somewhere, the border is south facing, just trying to improve the border with some manure as it is quite sandy soil that we bought to fill a big sunken area of about 14 ft x 10ft (but thats another story).:^)

Hi Teds, thankyou very much.:^)

Hi Tet, we have a few 'thingys' too that my hubby asks me about, lol. He'll say 'what's that one again?.:^)

Hi sticki, thanks for your lovely comments, very kind. Look forward to your pics. x

i forgot to say ~ your OH has done a really great job ~ lovely empty flower bed all ready to fill ~ looks exciting!

Yes, im looking forward to that, not sure how quick i will get it done though, we are hoping to get some extra gravel boards and new fencing panels soon as the soil is touching the fence in parts, so that we can get the border planted, it has always been just grass to the fence up until now.

i think its lovely putting the new things in ~ im not so good at maintaining them!!! probably best not done quickly! better to appreciate it and get it right ~ i never do cos i get impatient!!

I dont know about the getting it right, but we can have fun trying cant we! I am quite impatient too especially when starting from scratch, takes time to fill out, but then the time soon flies doesnt it. Im going to bed now to dream about gardening!

that will be a good dream!
i have just worked out how to download the phone photos so i will be able to put a few on now ~ hopefully better ones from OH camera later.

:^))

i love that picture of the otter ~ it was one of my favourites and i really like the one of the statue who now has a friend!! do you think they are both 9 years old??

They do look similar age dont they? thanks for telling me to go look for it! I think i was a little distracted with Hannah with me so missed a few bits I think!

never mind ~ you will have to go back for those!!! good excuse!!

Interesting set of photos...
Hannah has a lovely smile ...
... the sunken garden looks fascinating... :o)

Hi Terratoonie, hope you and your doggies are well, thank you for your comments, yes sunken garden lovely, so many plants and shrub varieties, plant heaven all in one!!

Just got here...loved it...think I might call you granny lol..The problem is..loads of grandmas on here and we just assume everyone is. They obviously haven't seen your pic with Carol:-))

Hi Bornagain, glad you like again, thanks for comments, i saw your recent comment that you had been to Walsall market, do you live that way? :^)

Yes Aldridge:-)