Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Mr. DeVice's Garden Photos

Our next entry in the NINTH ANNUAL INFOMANIC GARDEN EVENT comes to us from Mr. DeVice in Norfolk, England.
Seen here without his hoe
The Mistress insists that you click to enlarge these garden photos. 
p.s. Mr. Device's descriptions are underneath the photos.
These are the south-facing gardens of the new DeVice Mansion nearly five months after moving in.  It was just a swamp for the first month, then we had the paysho (because “pat-ee-oh” is vulgar) extended and the lawn laid a month later in March.  The next two or three weeks were spent digging bags and bags of manure into the now dry, stone-filled concrete-like clay “soil”.  The red greenhouse turned up in May which was also when various plants were put in, seeds were sown, and the three fruit trees in the lawn were planted.
 The paysho as seen from the DeVice Mansion’s south-east wing in mid-July.  And before a “Banned by Infomaniac” sticker is slapped to my forehead, the offending items are not mine – The Mother left them there and I didn’t notice when I took the photo! Note from The Mistress: Oh right, blame your mother.
The shady spot behind the garage brightened up with some ferns, hostas, and beautiful foxgloves (again, from mid-July).
The view from the arbour in mid-August.  That’s a small vegetable patch at the back next to the greenhouse.
My lovely Eucomis comosa “Sparkling Burgandy” (aka Pineapple lilies which, I think, have featured a few times in my Garden Photos Event photos?) on the paysho. Note from The Mistress: Go back to previous events and check it yourself, you lazy baggage.
When I’m sick to death of everything and everyone else and need to get away, I visit my little “garden” on the beach.  Beyond those pretty little flowers, amidst the marram grass, is my beach hideaway.
This is it. I constructed the little inukshuks which are usually still standing (mostly) whenever I return, which just goes to show that no one else ventures into my patch when I’m not there (and the sea rarely reaches this far in the summer).  Well, apart from birds and deer (their footprints are left in the sand).
This is the view – almost always free of human beings, fortunately.

19 comments:

  1. I need a Brit man in my life.....your all so talented with flora and fauna, and handling a nice stem. Beautiful Mr. Device

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    1. Perhaps an evening out at the Infomaniac Cocktail Lounge is in order?
      I'm sure that after a few cock-a-tails, Mistress Maddie will wow us all with her stamens and low hanging fruit...?

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  2. All I can do is sob, and plead with The Mistress to file my garden photo away somewhere. Mr Devine and Jon are soooooooo good at gardens....
    Perhaps we could have a handwriting display next year instead? I think this is a grand idea.
    Sx

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  3. Did someone stick a green thumb up your tuchas?

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    1. If they did, I barely noticed. Too much time spent down the docks perhaps...

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  4. It's showing huge promise, Mr DeVice, for one year's slog! And who knew you were such a handsome beast..? Jx

    PS We've fallen in love with Eucomis, and if our garden weren't so shady we would definitely grow more varieties - like 'Sparkling Burgundy'!

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    1. Much of it was just haphazard "plop it in and hope for the best", and it seems to have done all right. We'll see what next year brings.
      Oh, and thank you for the kind words - the "beast" bit is quite apt, as that photo was taken a few years ago on a 'dog day' (no effort made with hair or clothes as it was a Moom-walk on the beach - Moom was our dog).

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  5. I'm not yet convinced those aren't Mr. DeVice's pink Crocs in the paysho pic. His mother, indeed.

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    1. She is forever leaving them laying around in full view of all and sundry! It's embarassing.

      And to make matters worse, both Inexcuseable and Indescribable have seen fit to furnish my nieces' and nephew's little trotters with mini-Crocs. What is the world coming to?!?

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  6. Where I come from they don't pronounce the T in Pat-ee-oh it sounds something like pA-Eyo. It's true!

    Your garden is looking great it'll look even better next year when it's been bedded in. I hope that is real grass and not that ghastly artificial stuff.

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    1. Thank you, Mitzi. You can rest assured that the grass is real.

      An, oh yes: pA-Eyo. We have that, too. Along with bu-uh (to be spread on toast), and wor-uh (to drink or bathe in).

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    2. That is a relief, I will sleep be'uh tonight knowing that.

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  7. Madly jealous, especially of the beach garden.

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    1. Both gardens will be unusable imminently, thanks to the seasonal onslaught of rain and cold and murk.
      Not today though, as the sun is out (first time in a week or more)!

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  8. I've never seen Eucomis here and suspect the tropical monsoon would be its undoing if I tried it.But have fond memories of one in the garden when I was a child.

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    1. Mine seem to drink a lot of water during summer, if that helps...

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