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Feel better now Janet?

On 9/2/05 10:03 am, in article , "Bennett
Langdon" wrote:


"Sacha" wrote in message
k...
snip
Whatever she grows (other than shrubs) would be planted in great masses,
no 'dot' planting in this garden!
As to what she does in the garden at different times of year, would she do
*anything* other than pick flowers for the house? Wouldn't there be a
'little man' to do the actual gardening? ;-)
--

Sacha
(remove the weeds for email)


*Many* thanks for this!

Nick


Despite my 'little man' remark a lot of 'posh gardeners' like to do their
own thing in the garden and are frequently found 'bums up' in the herbaceous
border. It's said that the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire cherishes a remark
in her visitors' book - "We saw the Duke in the garden and he looked quite
normal!".
I think you might find The Lasket by Roy Strong on the making of his garden,
a good book to browse through. He wasn't born 'posh' but he knows 'posh',
if you see what I mean and is very hot on strong architectural planting.
And here's a link to the RHS calendar of work in the garden:
http://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/calendar.asp

Oh and she might be iffy about petunias BTW, except for the very soft
coloured or white ones trailing from a lovely old urn. And *definitely* no
bizzy lizzies but certainly their cousin, Impatiens tinctoria, "if it
survives our winters, my dear". ;-)
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)

In article ,
Sacha writes:
|
| Despite my 'little man' remark a lot of 'posh gardeners' like to do their
| own thing in the garden and are frequently found 'bums up' in the herbaceous
| border. It's said that the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire cherishes a remark
| in her visitors' book - "We saw the Duke in the garden and he looked quite
| normal!".

I was interpreting your remark to be a somewhat snide (and probably
correct) remark about the sort of 'posh' people that live in
Hampstead :-)

Traditionally, the genuine aristocracy and others were indeed likely
to be found doing the actual work, often dressed in clothing that the
under-gardener wouldn't be seen dead in! There might well be some
people in Hampstead with the same attitude, but there will definitely
be a lot that would almost never get their manicured hands muddy,
but would blither on about "my garden" at length.

I would tend to choose either type, depending on how the character
fits. The former type would employ a 'little man' primarily to mow
the lawn, dig new beds over and do the general, heavyish, unskilled
work, and would do things like take her own cuttings.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

On 9/2/05 2:39 pm, in article , "Nick
Maclaren" wrote:


In article ,
Sacha writes:
|
| Despite my 'little man' remark a lot of 'posh gardeners' like to do their
| own thing in the garden and are frequently found 'bums up' in the
herbaceous
| border. It's said that the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire cherishes a
remark
| in her visitors' book - "We saw the Duke in the garden and he looked quite
| normal!".

I was interpreting your remark to be a somewhat snide (and probably
correct) remark about the sort of 'posh' people that live in
Hampstead :-)

You were right, too. Those who 'would be posh' will ring the bell to get
someone to pick up their handkerchief and looks at the hallmarks on others'
silver. The real thing is far too secure for such nonsense.

Traditionally, the genuine aristocracy and others were indeed likely
to be found doing the actual work, often dressed in clothing that the
under-gardener wouldn't be seen dead in!

This precise thing happened to my father outlaw who was gardening in some
disgraceful old clothes and was asked by a 'Hampstead type" where his
lordship was!

There might well be some
people in Hampstead with the same attitude, but there will definitely
be a lot that would almost never get their manicured hands muddy,
but would blither on about "my garden" at length.

Touch of the Judith Bliss's but nothing like as much fun.

I would tend to choose either type, depending on how the character
fits. The former type would employ a 'little man' primarily to mow
the lawn, dig new beds over and do the general, heavyish, unskilled
work, and would do things like take her own cuttings.

If she was at all like a few I can think of, she'd be quite happy to shovel
the manure on, too but might get Mr Jenkins to do it once she's in her 80s.
;-)
--

Sacha
(remove the weeds for email)

On 9/2/05 2:56 pm, in article ,
" wrote:

On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 14:21:35 +0000, Sacha
wrote:

On 9/2/05 10:03 am, in article , "Bennett
Langdon" wrote:


"Sacha" wrote in message
k...
snip
Whatever she grows (other than shrubs) would be planted in great masses,
no 'dot' planting in this garden!
As to what she does in the garden at different times of year, would she do
*anything* other than pick flowers for the house? Wouldn't there be a
'little man' to do the actual gardening? ;-)
--

Sacha
(remove the weeds for email)


*Many* thanks for this!

Nick


Despite my 'little man' remark a lot of 'posh gardeners' like to do their
own thing in the garden and are frequently found 'bums up' in the herbaceous
border. It's said that the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire cherishes a remark
in her visitors' book - "We saw the Duke in the garden and he looked quite
normal!".

Must make a change from my son's favourite comment written in visitors
books "Incredibly boring"

Now that's like the child being dragged round yet another museum in Greece
who was overheard to say "Oh mummy, not MORE ladies with no clothes on"! ;-)
--

Sacha
(remove the weeds for email)

"Sacha" wrote in message
k...
On 9/2/05 10:03 am, in article , "Bennett
Langdon" wrote:


"Sacha" wrote in message
k...
snip
Whatever she grows (other than shrubs) would be planted in great
masses,
no 'dot' planting in this garden!
As to what she does in the garden at different times of year, would she
do
*anything* other than pick flowers for the house? Wouldn't there be a
'little man' to do the actual gardening? ;-)
--

Sacha
(remove the weeds for email)


*Many* thanks for this!

Nick


Despite my 'little man' remark a lot of 'posh gardeners' like to do their
own thing in the garden and are frequently found 'bums up' in the
herbaceous
border. It's said that the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire cherishes a
remark
in her visitors' book - "We saw the Duke in the garden and he looked quite
normal!".
I think you might find The Lasket by Roy Strong on the making of his
garden,
a good book to browse through. He wasn't born 'posh' but he knows 'posh',
if you see what I mean and is very hot on strong architectural planting.
And here's a link to the RHS calendar of work in the garden:
http://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/calendar.asp

Many thanks. PS Have you got a Cornish Aromatic Apple Tree?

Nick

On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 14:21:35 +0000, Sacha
wrote:

~On 9/2/05 10:03 am, in article , "Bennett
~Langdon" wrote:
~
~
~ "Sacha" wrote in message
~ k...
~snip
~ Whatever she grows (other than shrubs) would be planted in great masses,
~ no 'dot' planting in this garden!
~ As to what she does in the garden at different times of year, would she do
~ *anything* other than pick flowers for the house? Wouldn't there be a
~ 'little man' to do the actual gardening? ;-)
~ --
~
~ Sacha
~ (remove the weeds for email)
~
~
~ *Many* thanks for this!
~
~ Nick
~
~
~Despite my 'little man' remark a lot of 'posh gardeners' like to do their
~own thing in the garden and are frequently found 'bums up' in the herbaceous
~border. It's said that the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire cherishes a remark
~in her visitors' book - "We saw the Duke in the garden and he looked quite
~normal!".

Um, Dowager? I hadn't heard the Duke had died! AFAIK (and their
website) he's still here...

Having been brought up a stone's throw from Chatsworth, I can say that
the Duke and Duchess have done a tremendous amount for the local area
and people. The main estate is free to enter, there is a lovely garden
centre there, car parks (again free), loads of walks, and the House
isn't too expensive to look round. And they are indeed lovely normal
people (going by one of the estate employees who lives 3 doors away
from my parents!).

I fell in the weir once

Sorry - bit of a diversion!

~I think you might find The Lasket by Roy Strong on the making of his garden,
~a good book to browse through. He wasn't born 'posh' but he knows 'posh',
~if you see what I mean and is very hot on strong architectural planting.
~And here's a link to the RHS calendar of work in the garden:
~http://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/calendar.asp
~
~Oh and she might be iffy about petunias BTW, except for the very soft
~coloured or white ones trailing from a lovely old urn. And *definitely* no
~bizzy lizzies but certainly their cousin, Impatiens tinctoria, "if it
~survives our winters, my dear". ;-)

:-) I have this strange impression of Rosemary and Thyme's next
murderous job... though can anyone tell me if they did bump off one of
them as I missed the last eps?


--
jane

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone,
you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain

Please remove onmaps from replies, thanks!

Janet Baraclough wrote:
The message
from (Nick Maclaren) contains these words:

In article ,
Janet Baraclough wrote:
The message
from "Mike Lyle" contains
these words:

Often only too realistic, as well: "I don't know what to give
my wife for Christmas: after all, I've only been married to her
for
twenty years."

Speaking of which, last week John met our neighbour returning
from a lone shopping trip to a Shed. The neighbour had been to
that
repository
of feminine delights to choose "a surprise" for his wife's 59th
birthday on Valentine's Day .

An electric drill. (It was a toss-up between that and a kitchen
hob).

Does history relate the sort of things that she buys him?

A book about his hearts desire, old Massey Ferguson tractors.

I rest my case.

Mike.

On 9/2/05 4:51 pm, in article ,
" wrote:

On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 16:38:51 +0000, Sacha
wrote:

snip

Now that's like the child being dragged round yet another museum in Greece
who was overheard to say "Oh mummy, not MORE ladies with no clothes on"! ;-)

That sounds like him ;-)

He's being dragged around Athens next week as part of a degree course.
It's 5 DegC there at the moment.

Poor soul. ;-)
--

Sacha
(remove the weeds for email)

On 9/2/05 5:52 pm, in article , "Bennett
Langdon" wrote:


"Sacha" wrote in message
k...
snip.
And here's a link to the RHS calendar of work in the garden:
http://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/calendar.asp

Many thanks. PS Have you got a Cornish Aromatic Apple Tree?

No but these people have and we recommend them highly:
http://www.thornhayes-nursery.co.uk
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)

On 9/2/05 5:53 pm, in article ,
"jane" wrote:

On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 14:21:35 +0000, Sacha
wrote:

snip
It's said that the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire cherishes a remark
~in her visitors' book - "We saw the Duke in the garden and he looked quite
~normal!".

Um, Dowager? I hadn't heard the Duke had died! AFAIK (and their
website) he's still here...

I don't know which web site you're looking at but the current one says:

"It is with the greatest sadness that we report the death of the 11th Duke
of Devonshire, KG, PC, MC, on 3rd May 2004. He was 84 and had held the title
since 1950. He is survived by his wife, now the Dowager Duchess of
Devonshire, and their three children, eight grandchildren and eleven
great-grandchildren. Their son, formerly Lord Hartington, is now the 12th
Duke of Devonshire..........."
http://www.chatsworth-house.co.uk/ne...011th_duke.htm

--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)

"Bennett Langdon" wrote
in message ...
In a message dated 08/02/2005 14:28:13 GMT Standard Time, Jmikelyle
writes:
What a fascinating question! I think the other Mike's jaundiced
view is
unlikely to apply, at least in its entirety, to Hampstead, though.

Yes, I seem to have caught him in a bit of a mood. Many thanks for
your
reply by the way.


She won't be following the TV garden makeover programmes. too
vulgar,

Yes I thought so too.

though she may watch them avidly in order to enjoy expressing
contempt.
She'll probably rather fancy Monty Don, if she likes vulnerable men.
She'll
have some of the more expensive plants you don't get at bog-standard
garden
centres, and she'll probably be fascinated by herbs and some unusual
vegetables. I see a walled garden, which means there'll be a peach,
a
nectarine, and an apricot


Trees yeah? I am terribly ignorant about it but you see she's the
hero's
wife and the character presented herself to me and was quite
definitely a
gardener.


. Some of the plants will have originated as cuttings or bulbs from
her
parents' garden or trips abroad. She probably won't like double
flowers,
even if it takes trouble to get the old single varieties; she may
dislike
variegated leaves. She'll be big on winter-flowering things and
scent; and
will be angry about modern sweet peas because they don't smell as
strong as
the old ones. The lawn will have camomile and shepherd's thyme in it
for
the scent. There will be nothing conspicuous in the place made of
plastic.

She's got to have roses. I was toying with the idea of her
breeding roses and her making a new one that hase some nice
symbolism.

Do. That woiuld be a real winner. Just think of it, a one acre
Hampstead garden.
If I were her, I would flog the land as a building site and go and
breed roses somewhere else.

Franz

"Bennett Langdon" wrote
in message ...

"Mike" wrote in message
...
My word, I bet you feel a lot better getting that tirade off your
chest.

Might I respectfully recomend a wonderful book which would, I
feel, do you
a
lot of good?

"Psycho-cybernetics" by Maxwell Maltz.



I do apologise: I seem to have caused an altercation.

On the contrary, you are one huge figure of fun.

Franz

In article , Bennett Langdon
writes

Many thanks. PS Have you got a Cornish Aromatic Apple Tree?

I have. Why?
--
Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"

On 9/2/05 2:08 am, in article ,
"Janet Baraclough" wrote:

The message
from "Mike Lyle" contains these words:

Often only too realistic, as well: "I don't know what to give
my wife for Christmas: after all, I've only been married to her for
twenty years."

Speaking of which, last week John met our neighbour returning from a
lone shopping trip to a Shed. The neighbour had been to that repository
of feminine delights to choose "a surprise" for his wife's 59th
birthday on Valentine's Day .

An electric drill. (It was a toss-up between that and a kitchen hob).


Reminds me of a friend of mine who was a fanatical sailor with a dutiful
fiancée and a very uncomfortable boat. The boat had no heads (loo) but was
"bucket and chuck it". For a wedding present, he gave her a tyre to put on
top of the bucket. Apparently, her eyes filled with tears. I can't
imagine why.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)