The Old Forcing House

Plants for sale, come and buy!

Another full day awaited us at Norton Conyers yesterday, Giles had brought the sale plants for us to label and put out as Monday is the first official opening day of the year. Of course the garden is always open on Mondays and Saturdays if we are there so why not come along? We have an excellent choice of unusual hardy perennials for sale that you wont find in your run of the mill garden centre and you can see them growing in situ too. Next we tidied out the old forcing house and although the heating pipes are long gone we think we shall try to use it again next year, probably starting with rhubarb and chicory. It adds another dimension to the garden if people can see and imagine how things used to be done. After lunch we hoed the lavender walk to a fine tilth before re-planting with new specimens, sadly many of the mature plants didn't make it through the winter so we had no choice but to start again from scratch, that's gardening for you! Shandy meanwhile occupied herself by digging under the old trough outside the garden gate for the entire day, she was convinced something was hiding beneath, if only she could dig like that on command think what an asset she would be!

The old Forcing House 

" A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions"
Oliver Wendell Holmes

This weeks bouquet