"someone" wrote in message
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"'Mike'" wrote in message
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"Sacha" wrote in message
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The absolutely best and most
outstandingly beautiful, loved and imaginative garden was a tiny little
one,
tucked away down a dead end lane in the town, rarely seen by anyone but
its
owner. It absolutely knocked us out, though there was hardly space for
4 of
us to stand on the lawn together - it won hands down.
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Sacha


Big doesn't have to be beautiful. Our gardens have a 'Wow' Factor
according to one visitor when we opened, but it is only 120 feet x 20
feet :-))

Pictures at... [checked it out, Mike, beautiful!]

Well, you've all given me some courage. It is a rather daunting event but
I'm hoping people will like my garden even if it isn't like most of the
others where I live. I'm not very good at neat and tidy, and anyway it's
less than a quarter of an acre.

My two small ponds now have about four frogs each, and even the Belfast
sink behind the shed has a resident frog. Plus lots of damselflies and
newts. My Cuban tobacco (grown from holiday seed) has put out its first
flowers, tiny little pink ones, not like our Nicotiana at all, but pretty
nevertheless. My Hedychium gardneriana from the Azores will, I hope,
flower for the opening, but I'm not sure. My vanilla orchid is sulking a
bit so I don't think it will flower.

The other thing is, do I need insurance for Health and Safety, because I
have lots of Agaves, small ones as well as a 6 foot one grown from a 1"
bulbil, plus Pujas which are very dangerous. Not to mention the ponds,
and other things. Should I put up a notice saying "Enter at your own
risk - and please don't bring any young children in here" or what?

Four weeks to go...

someone

Might be an idea to get in touch with the organisers and ask if they have
taken out an overall Health & Safety Insurance covering all the gardens open
OR, ask them to put a disclaimer in the literature they are giving out. We
didn't have extra insurance, other than the house insurance and as you are
not charging and entrance fee, your own household insurance might cover.

Best of luck.

(Bet you do it again)

Mike