On 17/03/2014 15:09, sacha wrote:
On 2014-03-17 14:29:01 +0000, Spider said:

On 17/03/2014 11:39, Sacha wrote:
Ray & I were 'interviewed' for the Garden Festival at Powderham in May.
We had no idea that following a long, relaxed coffee time with the
lovely PR people about Ray doing an informal, anecdotal chat there, we
would then be asked to compete with the rooks for a bit of 'airtime'!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtsGvkRQQAI

Nice to see you both before our May visit. Well done for competing so
bravely with the rooks! Will you be able to go to Powderham, or is
Hill House too hungry for your time?


Definitely going to Powderham but it will be just me and Ray manning it,
as it's a BH week end. It's very rare for us to do any shows because of
the Nursery but it's so good to see a real horticultural show taking
place in the far south west that we want to support it and there will be
a lot of good nurseries and speakers, including Ann Swithinbank and Dr
Todd Gray who's a historian whose expertise is the history of Devon.
Ray's going to do a sort of "Confessions of a Nurseryman" chat with one
of the women we met on the Friday.



That sounds great. It's just what you wanted. Hope it goes well for you.


Powderham is the castle close to Dawlish and for those who have come
down to Devon by train, as you go through Dawlish and look up, you can
just see the castle and a lovely view of the deer park. In fact,
they're going to make a bit of a 'thing' out of the fact that people can
walk from Dawlish station to the castle in 10 to 15 minutes.



Easy enough to walk there, as you say, but I bet most visitors will take
the car so they can load up with plants and gardening artefacts. It
will be a lovely day out, though, esp. if the weather is good.

--
Spider.
On high ground in SE London
gardening on heavy clay