The Jungle at Heligan Gardens

Wow! Must go there one time soon. Huge Gunnera!

Can't recommend it enough!
Those Gunnera will be truly huge in a couple of months!

That's fantastic, all those greens, and not one the same, so much variety and texture.

You would love it lulu.

It was worth the walk in the rain, and nice not to have a hangover this time!!

I must make a plan!
Hope you were wearing your waterproofs Meanie!
It's meant to be 30 degrees here on Monday...to hot!

Make a plan!
If thirty degrees is too hot, don't bother with the biospheres at the Eden Project!!
Stuff waterproofs - I'm a man! Wasn't hacking it down either......

LoL! I garden in waterproofs if it's monsooning it down as for the Eden Project, isn't it humid in there?

Oooh yes - hot and sticky!!
My kinda climate!
You're a Kiwi as I recall aren't you?

I like hot and sticki when it's cold outside.
I used to live in NZ, Queenstown, south Island. I was born in London! I spent my youth in Battersea and Hyde parks and later lived near Richmond park.

Ahhh, Queenstown - many a hangover that place inflicted upon me!

that looks excellent, love to see that.

It is a fantastic place to visit Surreylad.

Oh goodness me too, one whole bottle of tequila! Never touched the stuff since the 80's!

Tequila and me never got past Auckland!

LOL! It's Negronis for me now!

If I ever hit spirits, it's Remy or Hennessy nowadays!!
Which is why I never really got to the Jungle on our last visit!

Lol, we are partying tonight and can't get a cab so am sleeping in the car with hubby and 3 dogs and no doubt waking up to a hangover and cricked neck!

I have to watch what I drink so as to avoid hangovers nowadays - they destroy me!
For some reason red wine gives me a bad head now, yet good cider no longer does.....
It's pathetic really, as I used to think nothing of going on 36 hour benders, frequently involving flying somewhere. Now I can be scrap after three hours!!

Have you tried the new toffee vodka ~ perhaps only for those with a sweet tooth?

Hate to say it, but that sounds yuk! But I'm a little weird about sweet things, and Vodka should only ever be over ice......

It comes straight out of the freezer, and then on top of ice. Much too easy for me to drink.

Sounds like my Dads kind of drink.
Hot chocolate with Creme de Bananes in is lovely!

Certainly worth a try, maybe when it's cooler weather?

First time that I had it was in Las Palmas - went down a treat!

Never been there - furthest I have been is Naples, but that's when I was younger. I remember some lovely food from more recent travels ~ lasagne at the top of an Italian mountain, lemon champagne and limoncello ice cream on the shores of lake Garda and nearer to home venison burger on the isle of Jura.

Venison burger sounds gooood! I have some minced venison in the freezer.

It was very good. Also had roast venison with stornoway black pudding - excellent.

I made an excellent cottage pie with some of it!

Now you are making me hungry. Do you do take away?

Occasionally!

If you post your menu I might order one!

It'd be cold by the time that it got there!
I may do a blog with my perfect chilli recipe.

Yum, Venison and yum black pud!
Now funny having mentioned it......too hot to garden (yeah I'm a woose) Negroni by the pond!

Woose!

Sorry, couldn't spell it.........w..oh...sce.
Lightweight also, 2 negronis and a long sleep!
Your blackcurrant Salvia must be loving this weather!

My new Salvia and all my other new "special things" too!

I might buy that double white foxglove tomorrow!! Except I bet it's gone over now.

Go on - go mad!

Where can you buy a double White foxglove? Does it stay White? All my foxgloves are purple.

Chille con Carne blog would be very welcome meanie

That's very beautiful!

The photo doesn't do it justice.....

There was rather a nicely illustrated book about heligan when I was there, I think it may have used water colours??
I think I take so many photos just to get the right one ~ I'm still trying!

The double foxglove is a very big secret!!!! Apparently thrue to seed!!
Sssh, don't tell any one...I saw it at Special Plants Nursery!

Will you be sharing the seed?!

I just gave them a ring, she doesn't know if she has any left (just got back from a plant show!) She says some have not grown true to seed am going tomorrow with a mate!
Sharing seed......well maybe! well of course!