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They have been saying for some days
that come Sunday night/Monday
we are on track
for a quasi hurricane
here in the south west UK.
(Supposedly it is a superstorm of 1987 pr0portions – u know, the storm Michael Fish said wasn’t going to happen?!)
So the second half of the week presented as the eerie calm before ‘The Perfect Storm’.
Golden autumnal afternoons have seldom seemed more precious!
And on one of these we found ourselves surveying the site for a new project which we have taken on.
Sunny, sheltered, with loamy soil and long views towards a distant wooded knoll – it had it all.
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hundreds of stems of Nerine bowdenii in full flower.
Many hundreds actually since the new owners of the property had already cut hundreds and given them to friends as you do with any glut – they make excellent cut flowers.
The residence has been massively rebuilt and we will be designing the garden around the new building on largely cleared ground. It is therefore necessarily almost a blank canvas.
Except that leave any stretch of cleared ground for five minutes and it greens up!
And out of the grass and weeds emerged these flower spikes:
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A remnant of the old garden, still sailing gloriously along despite the changes all round.
Their joyous sight was something of a magnet.
And during the hours that we measured up, since we draw up the existing shape of the garden actually on site, I kept popping over to look at them.
They were actually a useful part of the assessment of the site since this proved to be the warmest spot. As a gardener you would grow these bulbs in your ‘best spot. And situations like that do not get much better than a warm south facing wall.
Possibly a good site for a sitting area with a pergola, a vine and treasures that pop up at various times throughout the year.
And also the best view of the wooded hill.
Watch out Nerines!
Except that since they are one of the new owners’ favourite flowers their current serene display is to a large extent justified.
They may just need to learn coexistence!
R and L
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