Capel Manor

Sunflower Street what i nice name...

looks a sweet place to be.

nice photos.

from jane!

Yes Tatia I have visited this place before and I intend to visit it again. I love it. The plant you want to name is called "wild artichoke".

A lavender hedge sounds wonderful ! I hope it's successful for you.
Your dog looks friendly. I bet he'll be glad to get that collar off.
I like your bike. I can't ride a bike. I always topple over :D ... No sense of balance at all ...
I hope you find a nice name for it.

What a pleasant (and expensive) day out, and how nice to come home with just what you'd been looking for. Now to get it all planted! Your bike is fantastic - might be retro in design but they never did paint jobs like that originally did they? I can just see you riding back from the nearest garden centre with the basket full of plants all dropping soil on the nice white paint...

Steragram, I am far too young to know what original paint colours they used, hahahaha!!! :-) But, funnily enough, I saw 3 good uses for my basket and they were 1) plants from the garden centre (spot on!), 2) a bottle of wine and a baguette and 3) a little fluffy dog, enjoying the wind in his ears.

Costas, thanks for the name of the plant. I just Googled and that is definitely it. I need to find a space big enough to grow one or 2 of these stately beauties without allowing them to take over. They certainly do make a statement.

Hywel, I'm not a great bike rider. My husband is a keen (and very serious) cyclist who often does a 'just a quick ride, Tash' of 70 or 80 miles just to keep his legs in order. I just enjoy poodling along. I love this bike because I can sit upright and that reduces pressure on my wrists and hands from leaning forward. It doesn't actually do much to reduce the saddle soreness, though, lol.

I like Bella! That's added to the names for consideration, lol.

And Jane, Sunflower Street is really cool as it's like a row of houses (just the façade of front and back of house) with themed front and back gardens that you can wander through and use for inspiration.

I saw a beautiful pergola, just the right size for what I want in my own garden. I was having trouble explaining it to Tony (my husband) and when he saw it,, he said 'oh, okay, I get it now.' I've got two grape vines just itching to start growing up a pergola. :-)

When that bike style was what there was, the colour was usually black. Red or blue if you were lucky as far as I remember, but I wasn't allowed to have one..