Every couple of years or so a few of our members open up their gardens to other club members and friends. This year there will be 6 or 7 gardens open on 11th July. Now rumour has it that with only 14 weeks to go, the novice gawpers are coming up with grand plans. I hear one garden has been stripped back to a blank canvas so let's hope the weather dries up soon. Another has decided to try and recreate part of the National Botanical Gardens of Wales in a small Warwickshire back garden- good luck with that one. As news comes in on progress we will update you and hopefully the 11th July will be a beautiful sunny day, allowing us to wander at leisure taking lots of photos and ideas away from each garden.
Sitting here looking out on a wet Good Friday, a week after we go into British Summer time, I wonder if we have been fooled into believing that Spring has finally Sprung. Faced with another bank holiday with weather stopping us go out into the garden or even visit other gardens it's easy to turn your back on the outdoors, settle down with a good book or even a seed catalogue or 2. But wait- take a closer look through the window and yes Spring really has arrived. So what is it for you that finally says Spring is here?
For me it's all of these things, plus running out of room in my small greenhouse, and seedlings taking over every available windowsill. There really isn't much that is more exciting to a gardener at this time of year than the sights of those little green shoots appearing as if by magic over-night. So never mind the rain, it's time to dust off your wellies and get out there. It's well documented in the press that a man with a shed is a happy man; but what about the girls? Do men and women think that sheds have different purposes? Is there such a thing as shed wars happening up and down the country? For some a shed is simply the place to store tools, but for others it's a sanctuary away from the world. Some men have a place for every tool, others may have a deckchair, and space for a book and a beer. A place to escape the world. We never read about women and their sheds. Ladies what does your shed mean to you? Is it a place to avoid, full of spiders and mess? In our household we have two sheds- his & hers; except her's is called the "beach-hut". His is full of tools, bikes, wood that hasn't been chopped for the fire yet and spiders. Hers is painted in pastel colours, decorated in fairylights and candles. His looks like a shed! Hers had the front replaced with recylced stained glass panels & french-doors. His has barely room to swing a spider, let alone a cat. Hers has two wicker chairs, a table for those glasses of wine and a radio. His is rarely visited by her- hers is in use most warm evenings, (by him as well as her!). |
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