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April flowers

19 Tuesday Apr 2011

Posted by sallynex in Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day

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This is my post for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day.

Yes, I am aware I am four days late for the party. However on the morning of the 15th, I reached out for my trusty camera and discovered that while lurking at the bottom of my bag it had had a close encounter with a leaky water bottle, with disastrous consequences for all concerned.

After many howls of anguish and much prodding of unresponding buttons, I bowed to the inevitable and bought a new camera.

In the process I discovered that my old camera, which was the first thing I bought when I jacked in the day job to become a garden writer five years ago, had reduced in value from £350 to just £59.99.

How are the mighty fallen. Actually being bloody-minded and terminally uninterested in technology, I figured if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it (well, the camera was, but bear with me here) and so I wasn’t going to change a make of camera I was perfectly happy with just because there was something newer and more modern on the market (note I didn’t say necessarily ‘better’; I don’t have any particular need for the capacity to hot-wire pictures to my Facebook account on the move, even if I had one, which I don’t).

So I have congratulated myself on my frugality and bought a camera that’s exactly the same, but for around a fifth of the price of what they tell me is the equivalent these days.

(and the more up-to-date version didn’t even have a viewfinder. I use my viewfinder all the time on sunny days. Why wouldn’t they include a viewfinder?)

Anyway. Inconsequental rant over. The camera in question is an Olympus SP500-UZ by the way: discontinued these days therefore ridiculously good value.

So the reason for carrying on with GBBD regardless is that my garden is currently brimming over with flowers and I just couldn’t let the chance go by to get out there and take pictures of them in all this gorgeous sunshine. Enjoy!

Thanks as always (if a little late this month) to Carol at May Dreams Gardens for hosting Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day.

Tagging along with VP

14 Saturday Feb 2009

Posted by sallynex in Uncategorized

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National Gardens Scheme, Old Croft, photographs

Couldn’t resist this one – VP has invited everyone to join in with a great meme where you get to fish about in your photo folders and post whatever photo is the fourth photo in the fourth folder that comes up.

So here it is. Funnily enough, it’s a garden….

To be more precise, it’s The Old Croft, a rather lovely garden on Holmwood Common near Dorking which opens under the National Gardens Scheme. We go there every year because they have a fabby swing hanging on very long ropes from their very large and venerable oak (I think) tree which if you get it going fast enough soars thrillingly over the lake. So the girls have a great time and so do I (not on the swing, I hasten to add – far too vertiginous for me). This is the planting in a boggy bit by the lake – they do a lot of this pink-and-orange colour scheme in that bit of the garden, which sounds horrific but is actually stunning in the sunshine. There’s a bamboo maze and a hosta garden and… oh… all sorts of things.

I took the photo as part of an attempt to get a magazine to publish an article on it when I first started writing, back in 2006 (my photo folders really need clearing out). Encouraging noises to begin with but then the ed said no in the end. Not sure if it was me or my photos that put her off!

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