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Delightful summer

9/5/2012

We have had a busy summer with pockets of fine weather interspersed with plenty of showers. The new library in Worcester The Hive is however a great place for guests to visit on a rainy day. It is open 7 days a week from 9am until 10pm with the Orchard Cafe open daily until 9.30pm offering hot and cold meals.

Guests are also enjoying the circular river walk along the Severn now that we have the new Diglis pedestrian bridge south of Worcester Cathedral. The walk takes just over an hour, passing the cricket ground, the Cathedral and the Diglis House Hotel with its riverside garden (where delicious hot and cold snacks are served all day until 9pm).

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Meeting Monty Don & Chris Beardshaw

5/5/2012

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A few years ago we went to the Hay Literary Festival in May to hear a number of speakers including childrens' authors and and Monty Don. The biggest arena at the Festival was packed to the gunnels to hear him. With a mainly female audience hanging on to his every breath did he talk about gardening? No, but he did give a very sincere tallk about his fight over the years with depression which was very revealing. I didn't mind what he talked about - it was just lovely to hear his gravelly voice. Swoon.

Talking of handsome gardeners a few years ago I bumped into Chris Beardshaw at the Malvern Spring Gardening Show. I had to go out of my way a little to pull this off but just about managed it. Nonchalant, moi? In Chris' case I was surprised in real life how small he was but being small myself I wasn't complaining: like a minature daffodil he was small but perfectly formed.

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Monty Don

4/25/2012

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Last October Monty Don showed us on Gardeners' World how to take cuttings from rose bushes. I and millions of others had a go - it seemed simple enough- no hormone rooting powder needed, just sharp secateurs, and this week he told us what to do next. "Leave them; do not transplant them; wait until October," he said. Too late! I had transplanted some of mine to where I wanted them a few weeks ago, living the others in situ. Anyway no great harm done; three out of the four seem to have survived and I've only lost one so fingers crossed. Hopefully by the summer guests will enjoy the lavender and rose display and accompanied by wafts of honeysuckle and rosemary summer evenings should be heady indeed. The Malvern Garden Show is just around the corner and we are well placed at Four Seasons for easy access to the Three Counties Show Ground with routes from Worcester via Callow End avoiding the gridlock of Malvern itself.

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Bird life

4/9/2012

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A couple of days ago we were outside in the garden doing T'ai Chi when we looked up and overhead saw an enormous bird. It was a buzzard and we were just admiring its grace and elegance when two crows flew in to attack it. Nature is cruel but fortunately it survived. We have lots of birds here: I've seen magpies, sparrows, robins, blue tits, wood peckers and wood pigeons. We even once had a parrot staying in a tree for a fortnight. Obviously passing through on its holidays.

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Cold snap

4/5/2012

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Our British weather is a scream; one minute you're rummaging for suncream and sunhats, the next you're rooting out long johns and rushing straight back indoors. I can't imagine how nature copes, but it does. We seem to lurch from one extreme to the other. If the weather gradually improved like it used to we would all slowly accclimatise but this week, surprise, surprise, there wasn't only a sudden change but we actually went backwards.

Today I picked the last two daffodils in bud for indoors as they are just starting to go over. Fortunately there is always a new spectacle to see: our red tulips are perfect right now, the wisteria is starting to drip it's purple glory, and the avenue of acers are on the brink of bursting into a magenta splash. Camelia buds are bursting forth and even last autumn's rose cuttings are promising displays of new roses for summer. Don't you just love Spring?

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This time of year

3/27/2012

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Spring is here. The front garden is a sea of yellow with the daffodils at their very best. Our magnolia looks pretty magnificent at the moment too, althought a breeze would swiftly remove all the petals. The recent hot weather (it has been more like June than March) has really brought the garden on and the camelias and pulmonaria are now out. A line of wallflowers has just come into bud and will look splendid next week. I love this time of year.

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Four Seasons

1/27/2012

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Here at Four Seasons the first snowdrops are just coming out. Our pretty yellow aconites are also in full bloom beneath the mature rowan tree in our front garden. The first green shoots of the daffodils are starting to appear on the lawn, a cheery reminder that Spring is not far away though I suspect we will have snowfall first. Traditionally Worcester is mild in the winter with only a little snow but last year we had unusually cold weather with heavy snow.

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