MY BRILLIANT DAY!

Great blog~sounds as though you had a great time!

It was really excellent thanks! I took over 100 pics, couldn't put them all in!!

URGENT look on my blog , lovely blog and pcitures enjoyed the tour.

On my way!

It was a fab day,Mp!

And, can vouch for it being a real "GOY" day, as was there when the post arrived, with pressies from Blodyn (Hywel) and Spritzhenry (Barbara). !!!

The virtual world of GOY gets ever realler an realler !!!!!!!!!

Mp I loved trekking the world with you, - especially the Himalayas! We had a real "laugh", and learned lots

Your garden will be stunning, ere long!!!! :-)

The kindness of people should be cherished, and held on to when Winter arrives. Lovely blog

I'm glad you had a wonderful day Marie, and very pleased I helped to make it so :o)

What a great blog !
A really good read with great photos too :)
I agree, what a wonderful day Marie :)

Brilliant MP. Seems like you had an exceptional day and the pics are ace. Some wonderful plants and amazing views thrown in for good measure.

What a kind-spirited chap our David is and it's nice to know that there are still decent people in the world - good on ya David!

Great blog MP

Thanks Dan!
It was a superb day, & I took so many pics! Didn't have to discard many either!
I'll probably put more on my photos page. Those birds were flying around us, & really close in the trees,9 about 3 feet away) 7 didn't seem to mind at all!
yes, david is a really nice GoY! And as nutty as your squirrel!
Definitely a day to treasure, Doon!
Yes Hywel, you definitely added to my day, thank you!
David, you're a star, & I cant wait for our next expedition!
Marie x

What a super blog, Marie - you obviously had a wonderful day and to meet another GOY-er is very special, isn't it!

Thanks for posting all these beautiful photos of a fantastic area of the UK.

I'm so glad I helped in a small way.

ooh you guys look like you had a fab time

how weird that 2 others got in contact on the very same day!!
must be fate!!!!!

x x x

Yes, Barbara!
It's VERY special! The whole day was a laugh a minute & we learned an awful lot too!
It was a great garden, though I would recommend going in June/July, as we'd missed it at its best, a lot of what we went to see had gone to seed!
You definitely DID help! Thanx!

Hi Mookins!
Yes we did have a great day!
Who else got to meet up? Have I missed something?

no silly
you getting the post from Hywell and Spritz
or did I read that wrong, will check again

x x x

Ah! You were right, Jen!
Sorry, having a CRAFT moment!
Yes, it just added to the whole thing!!
:~}}

hehe
thought it was me reading it wrong, have misplaced my glasses so am covering one eye to try and reduce the blurr

hehe just makes me feel a bit wobbly also hehehe

noooo before you say I havent been drinking hehehe

x x x

LMAO!!!! At ME!!!!!!!!

Marie so pleased you had a brill day, and met David, also nice as now i can put a face to you so pleased to meet you, thanks for sharing your lovely day with us.

Thanks Carol!
Terrible pics, but I honestly couldnt stop laughing! David had picked up my camera & said "where's the mountain?" & we were taking the mick out of each other non-stop!
My ribs were sore by the time I got home!
And his kindness was over and above!

Fantastic blog Mp...and clearly you had a fantastic day out ! Were you fighting over the camera or did you both have one ? Lol ! Great pics whoever took them !!

Hiya BB! We both had camera's (tho I had to hold mine together, the battery cover catch has broken!), & this lot are all mine. Its only a portion of what I DID take! I'll post the rest later!
Glad you liked them!
A lot of the plants weren't labelled, & the South African ones were in the area signposted as South America! A very confusing but hilarious "world tour"!!!
Marie x

Wonderful of Spritz and Hywel to send seeds too.Davids car must have been overflowing with plants judging by those pics ! Thoroughly enjoyed the tour !

He had them all over the car when he arrived at my house!! I thought I was getting cuttings!!
Hywel sent me 3 good-sized cuttings of some beautiful fuschias, & Spritz sent seeds of Cerinthe, which I find fascinating, so I'm super-chuffed!
Glad you enjoyed it!

What a lovely surprise for you...no wonder you are chuffed !!

The highlight was the Giant Himalayan Lily that David bought me at the garden!

More gifts ! Doesnt he realise hes giving us men a bad name !! Lol

LOL! And he just went away with a Cadbury's van Biscuit tin & a bunch of rhubarb!!

LOL...Poor David...the rhubarb should ensure he will be a "regular " visitor ! !

WOW sounds as though you and David had a whale of a time today Marie with non stop hilarity and plenty of scrumptiousness in the cafe. It was very kind of your GOY friends to send you all those plants and seeds and I can see that you really appreciated it. I enjoyed looking at all your photos and reading about your antics lol and hope that there are many more days of laughter and merriment on the way for you. :-)

Groannnnnnnn!
Well, he did get some free range eggs & some jam too!
And I'm going to split the rhubarb when it goes back a bit, so he can grow his own!
But I fully intend to find some way to reciprocate!
I have a cunning plan!!

Oh...do you ! Look forward to seeing the results in another blog !!!

Great blog Marie...what a good day for you both! Love those staues. All your pics are fab...& those hugimous leaves!!!

Watch this space!

Really enjoyed your blog Madperth. Thanks for identifying the Virburnum with the red berries, one has appeared in my garden and I was wondering what it was.

Thanks Fluff! it was! Statues? No, that was David on the pine-cone!
Ohhh! You mean the mother & child? It was two sides of the same carving & so beautiful, but rotting away at the bottom, which was sad!

Another one with my name on it, Dawn!!

I'll try and get some cuttings going off mine. Its been growing on the bank of my brook for some years but I've never really taken much notice of it until this year as its been covered in berries.

I thought it was strange that I only really noticed the wild one when I was showing David how close I am to the river, then we saw it at Pitlochry!
So I definitely have to have that in my garden!! Let me know if your cuttings take, I'll try it with the wild one! It'd make a stunning hedge, I think!

Mine has to be a wild one Madperth, I would suspect. I'll take the cuttings tomorrow and I will let you know if they take.

Great! Thanks Dawn!

What a great day you both had Your pics are brilliant, brings back memories. You went some miles too, Queens view is about 8 or nine niles out over the Garry river and right up that long and winding road. We enjoyed the Explorers garden when we were in Pitlochry but I only had my video camera that day. I told David that just over the other side of the Tummel river on the town side, over the bouncy bridge, is an area that the council are clearing and they have placed a rowing boat planter there ready to plant up, I shall have to check that out next time we get up there.

We werent in town, just cut through on the way to Queen's View.
Were the poppies out when you went?

Not sure I will get the DVD out and have a look, I think they were.

How could you forget??????

Great blog...nice to put faces to names...Hi Marie! Hi David! Love the Tibetan Cherries for their beautiful bark, too, M.
And how sweet of Hywel & Spritz.
So lucky to have that place to visit...what a marvellous idea..'plant hunter's garden'..like that. I s'pose here in Wales it would read 'wet plant hunter's garden'! Lol

It was a pretty wet day before we went up, hence the waterproof jacket on top of my hoodie!
The sun came out for a while later, & came out in earnest just as we were heading back!! Typical!!

your photos are amazing. the pine cone...... the dragon....and now i understand the lilys...

Lol! I wouldn't include my photos in my art tho!!
I use an idiot-proof camera!

mine has loads of setting but i only use auto and macro...oh and i can surpress the flash...havent got the foggiest what the other buttons do.....lol

I keep ending up with mine on the wrong setting, it's a wheel turn setting thingy, so some of them turn out really wierd!!

lol ....thats why i stay on the same setting. i only mean to turn it one click and it jumps or sticks...

Yep! It would appear mine isnt really idiot proof, or at least not MAD proof!!

you and the camera took some great phootos on your lovely day out. but you could have at least tried to get the pine cone in the car....

It was a small car! but if I could get a log round to my garden.......

;-)).

Hi Marie yes they were out but only just, there is a huge pinecone like that in the grounds of Pitlochry Hospital, do you think it could be a rather big squirrel?

Enjoyed reading about your day out Marie,lovely photo`s as well,thanks for sharing..

I think it's a b****y big tree, Bob!
You're welcome, Lincs, glad you liked it!

What a good blog. Days like these are rare so more enjoyable for it. Good pics too. BTW - I like the idea of the shelves on your shed!

Glad you enjoyed it ! Yes, it was a rare treat for me!
The shelves have kicked about for ages, & I thought they'd do for those little bits & bobs that "hide" whan you need them! Might just put plants on them tho, when I FINISH painting them!! :~))

I think the shelves would look great with little plant pots on them - pansies for the winter maybe?

You really must get your own back for all those lovely plants !!!

Oh, yes,BB!
I've found something to give him which is perfect for his next project (top secret, tho! Sorry)!
But I'll be on the lookout too!
He seems chuffed that he's getting a rhubarb plant! Go figure!!

i really felt your happiness Marie as I sat in the warm and dry watching you and David enjoying your lovely day out. I had a chuckle at the pic of David "standing" on that big leaf looking for all the world like a woodland elf LOL sorry David ;~))) You sound like such a happy girl and I was laughing along with you. The gardens were beautiful. Love Sue x

Thanks Sue, it was just a really fun day!
I prefer the one of him sitting on the pine cone!!
Marie x

Dunno how I missed this ,my "what friends are doing" list seems to have holes in it!
Great trip out M and David is a real star for bringing you all those plants, Well done that man (deserves his chocolate for that ).
Iabsolutely adore that bench (it is a bench is it) it looks like its stone flags ,is it? and the statue of mother and child is gorgeous too.
What a way to beat the blues from your door, have a trip out like that one and the world just takes on a different shine, enjoyed it myself form here!
great blog ,look forward to the update (extra pics)!

and Namo buddhaya to your head on the table very nice!

Hi Indy! Better late than never!!
The bench is metal & wood! I loved it, but David wouldnt let me take the lumberjacks & their chainsaws home so I couldnt get them to make me one!:~(((
It was a totally amazing day, & we're hoping to fit in another visit before they close in October!
There are more pics in my photos, but I took so many I couldnt upload them all!
Yes the statue is beautiful, but its a wood-carving too, & is rotting away from the bottom :~((
David didnt get chocolate, but he got rhubarb, eggs & a chocolate delivery van tin!!
I've also got stuff for him for his next project (& a rhubarb plant!)
.
I suppose I COULD do a follow-up on it, with the plants I got pics iof, but I cant remember what half of them were! I loved the pagoda! I want one!!
I have a few rupas in the garden!

Do a who knows what this is blog then M. you know we all love a quiz!

Took me a minute to decipher that one!
Will do just that, as soon as I can get a few mins!!

Ok I'll shut up now and let you have some peace I've got stuff to do! see ya laterz!

k! Have a look at Diggers new blog when you get a mo!

what the strawb one , thought i left a comment the other day, must have forgotten to hit submit (again)

NO! He's been kidnapped by the flowerpot people!

Oops! Its not a blog, its in his pics!!

Was wondering !
we all get senior moments M.

No, petal I have CRAFT moments!

enough bandiage time to gogh and meditate! see yas laterz!

Ok, I'll join you in a mo, but what's bandiage???

Depends its either sommat to cover a wound, or the age you first got onto a horse!

I wondered!! Badinage, perhaps? Numpty!

No i'd just finished bandaging my sons leg! Numpty!

:~)D~~~~~

Glad you both had such a lovely day Mari , a good allround fun day and some nice surprises as well ... .

I like the white stemmed rosa , I took a photo of one at Anglesy Abbey ..... ......... in my blog a change from flowers ... :o)

I'm still trying to get hold of a cinnabar plant- they didnt have any for sale! I managed to identify the mystery bush & was sent some seeds for it! Have to wait 2 years for them to germinate tho!! :~(

OOhh , it will be worth the wait , just don't watch it , you know what they say about a kettle !!

I know! Its a tibetan tree paeony, & I've planted the seeds in a big pot along with my 4inch high tibetan cherry, which is sheltering in between the Cordyline & the Uncinias!