Dan & Ali's delightful day out at Duffryn gardens #3 - The Final...

Good Morning Mr. OB.
And you have certainly made it a good one with this lovely walk through a beautiful place !! I love getting out of the city and blogs like this allow me to do just that.

With the beautiful pictures and wonderful commentary, I really do feel that I was there with you. You've set me up for the day 'our kid' !

Lovely !!! ;-))))))))

Thanks Sue, glad you enjoyed. Did you catch the first 2 parts as it was 'quite the walk'!!

Not as yet, but you can be sure I will ! ;-))) Got to get my puff back first, not as young as I used to be !! lol

Really enjoyed these blogs what a lovely place .to go the house looked very grand .I also liked the waterfall and your friends that took you round.It must take some looking after.Some smashing flowers was the single yellow a welsh poppy .

lovely blog Dan, enjoyed it, loved the trees and close-ups, think the white flower might be camellia, but might be wrong, anyway you aint done to bad with the kodak have you! so stop complaining lol :o)) ive enjoyed your`s and Ali`s blogs on your day , well done

Yay! Gifte Shoppe!

That was great, Dan, really enjoyed the tour!

Does look like a cammellia, that white one. Could be a magnolia stellata, but think they flower earlier in year. Dunno, but lovely, anyway!

Really good series of blogs, Dan and Ali.

yes magnolia are early Bscott, i like them to :o)

Good morning Dan! (well, afternoon!)
Lovely pics as always!

well done dan very good blog & pics, i almost felt i was there with you too..............oh i was :o)
just looked up magnolia and i think these ladies are correct xx

Thanks Mavis and glad you enjoyed it. Not sure about the Poppy but will try and find out for you.

San: You wouldn't believe how hard I had to concentrate with the Kodak....thanks for the comms and glad you liked it.

AFTERNOON Marie? Tired still....? :0( Don't overdo it girl.

Thanks Bscott. The gifte shoppe was only small but some good books in there. Bit expensive thoough for my liking!

Great tour great pics I loved the fern from underneath.

Think it's magnolia grandiflora. Thanks for a grand tour.

Love the dougal tree & the waterfall! And the angles you take pics from sometimes. We have those tinkling toadstools...get enough wind round here to set them off...& that's just the husband!!

Wagger beat me to it again - magnolia grandiflora which flowers off and on from June to September. The flowers only last about three days and smell strongly of lemons.
Nice walk though :-)

so is it the tree magnolia thats springtime then andrew

There are many different magnolias Sanbaz. M.stellata and M.soulangeana are the two you see most often in gardens and they both flower in the spring (the latter may carry a few flowers about now too)

thanx andrew :o)

can't say we noticed the lemon smell, but we couldn't really get that close to the blooms. The actual blooms were really large though approx 8" or more perhaps, the tree was really huge too. Very achitectural tree :o)

Brill blog and photos,

Great Blog OB. Enjoyed the tour very much........
Can anyone else see the 'tree sprite' in the 'Linda Barker' tree..........or have I had one too many today?...lol

...erm...one too many, SB! I think I got too sidetracked by the gifte shoppe to notice! Dan...they're always a bit on the dear side, aren't they? Great shame, but always worth a fossick around.

Thank you, Dan and Ali, really great!

;-)

LOL Dan! I got up at 9! But I was out finally getting round to dismembering the remains of the old sofa, got some useful wood & leather out of it but the foam had to go, full of damp spores, NOT good for the breathing!
Ali, You were pretty lucky seeing the magnolia in flower if theyre so short-lived! :~))

whats tree sprite silver... i see a shiny thing to the right

Think it's a soft drink made from tree bark and lemonade & lime....LoL!!

lol Dan grrrr :o)

Nah hated the blogs Dan they were terrible .... coz I wasnt there!!!! :o))))
Seriously though I loved reading through both Ali's and your blogs, the shots were great as usual and you have got some competition with Ali too, mind if you had a camera like hers just think how good yours would be :o)
That waterfall looked soooooooo peaceful and serene.

Lol Bob!!

Ali has the older camera which is still very good in fairness. We sort of look at things differently although tend to like similar, if that makes sense so the difference is sometimes there in the subject matter or angles etc.

The Kodak disposable is very good and great value for money - over 480 pics in one day......gotta be good value in anyone's book!!!

The waterfall was peaceful as was the whole place in general........

You'd love it there mate, I'm sure.

Kodak disposable my eye!! LOL!

marie, have you read the first part of this walk?

Yes, of course!!

Well then you will have seen the proof of my Kodak disposable on the 3rd pic.......

Why do people not believe me? Puh!

Puh!?? Wuss!
Because we KNOW about yourr super-duper new camera, dummy! LOL!

That is all poppy-cock marie to make me sound good!

It's just me and my lil ole Kodie for company.....:0)-

Aye, aye! And the band played 'believe it if you like'!

I'm believing you Dan I know what good pics you can get off of a box brownie so your Kodak disposable would blow it's socks off. And yeah I would love it there and I will get there one day, the Wales border is only 30 minutes away from us.

Watch it, Bob! I SHALL find you when you move up here!!

hehehe

He laughs, but is it the foolish laugh of false confidence, or the nervous giggle of a scared man??? LOL!

Nervous giggle .... yes definately a nervous giggle :o))

Nite nite.

Night!! LMAO!

Morning Dan, This is a fantastic blog as were the other two. I haven't been ignoring them even though I've commented on Ali's (no sexist favouritism honest), just needed time to read them properly. Have been having trouble keeping up with GoY lately. It looks like the perfect place for a day out, how did you manage to get blue sky too? Love the waterfall and the pic of Cosmos, my favourite flower.
Thanks for the wonderful guided tour, I feel like I've been there. :o)

i aint been to Duffryn Gardens for years!!

Have you seen Changeling??

All joking aside your blogs are AWESOME!!!

Well done

you know how i know your...................

From the Cardiff area???

Coz thats where Duffryn is!!

Hi Changeling & Steve! Welcome to GoY!

geat blog..ive been mmeaning to go there. after seeing your blog i just might have to go there it looks lovely.

Well worth a visit Sandra. It's such a relaxing walk with so much to see. We will go back again, maybe in Spring with a picnic and hopefully the house will be open then too.

Thanks also for the help with my Aeonium. Will do as you say with the cuttings I thnik.

aeoniums root well water when u take the cuttings then only water once a month at this time of year. when the realy cold weather starts in november i stop watering mine altogether till feb/march..
i was invited to sell plants at dyffryn last year but it clashed with something and i couldnt go. but it looks lovely from your photos.