A Fond Farewell

We took a field trip on Tuesday as our last day of college, the stresses of examination over it was good to socialise with friends forged over a years worth of study. We gathered at the walled garden at Scampston with its Piet Oudolf designed planting schemes and for once this year the weather was kind to us. After coffee we ventured into the garden armed with a booklet which corresponded to numbers next to the plants so we could identify key examples, a very neat and useful solution. On the whole I thought the planting very effective and the atmosphere restful, a completely different garden in style from Norton Conyers, call me biased but I prefer our own plant-mans garden to the vagaries of fashionable design! We took a very pleasant lunch outside and then it was time for us to part, a slightly sad ending for what has been quiet a journey for all included. Many thanks to our tutor Richard for coaxing us through the mysteries of the RHS,and good luck to all my fellow gardeners, may your lawns always be green and your herbaceous borders bountiful!

The graduation (hopefully) class of 2012!

"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each others worth" Robert Southey