tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76265589596748085822024-03-27T08:38:09.926+02:00Driftwood RamblingsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger146125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7626558959674808582.post-35458503838710633422012-06-05T16:20:00.000+02:002012-06-05T16:20:52.591+02:00An Absentee Blogger Returns...Momentarily!<br />
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"Life is full of beauty. Notice it! Notice the bumble bee, the small child, the smiling faces. Smell the rain and feel the wind. Live your life fully." ~Ashley Smith~</div>
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All of you (<i>and you know who you are!</i>) who have endearingly professed to have missed me (<i>thank you for that!</i>) during my extended leave-of-absence, please don't get too carried away by my sudden reappearance. Save those bottles of bubbly and cheers of welcome for some more deserving cause. This is just a brief appearance, occasioned by all of the lovely messages I've been receiving expressing concern at my lengthy silence and absence.<br />
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Allow me to reassure you that I am in good health (hale and hearty!) and happy with life. It's just that priorities have required my attention to be focussed elsewhere for the time being. I am not sure how long that will be, but I'm guessing for as long as my current circumstances dictate. And, no, there is nothing untoward happening in my life. On the contrary, I am in a very good place right now. I still have my wonderful, loving family and the robust antics of our five, lively dogs to keep me busy, centered and most definitely grounded.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time." ~Leonardo da Vinci~</td></tr>
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Do I miss blogging? Absolutely! Do I miss all of the special bloggers who I have been privileged to come to know on a more personal level? Of course! Do I think of you all? Frequently! Then...why have I not been visiting? Well, that's part of the reason I've needed to take an extended hiatus. There are so many of you and I found myself spending ages trying to keep up with all of you, especially those of you who post several times a week! <i>You had me on the hop!</i> When I started blogging in November 2010, I had <i>no idea </i>that blogging could become such a time-consuming activity, or that it lent itself to establishing so many connections with others for whom I'd begin to develop a real sense of kinship and, in some instances, even affection. The vast physical distances that separate us all and the fact that we only know each other in virtual space and time seemed no reason to temper these emerging friendships. In fact, I found myself becoming increasingly wrapped up in everyone's blogging lives and personas, even though I did occasionally find myself wondering whether all those lives/personas were real. After all, nothing prevents any of us from becoming whoever we wish to project.<br />
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When family members begin to comment more frequently on the amount of time you're sitting at your computer, visiting blogs and leaving comments, and suggest this has the potential of becoming an unhealthy addiction, it generates good reason to pause and reevaluate priorities.<br />
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After all, I suspect most of us can benefit from being periodically reminded that the life we lay claim to is the only real one we're going to have, so we'd best appreciate every fleeting moment...even if that means temporarily refraining from the pleasurable past-time of blogging!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"If the essence of my being has caused a smile to have appeared on your face or a touch of joy within your heart, then in living I have made my mark." ~Thomas Odem~</td></tr>
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Until such time as I resume my seat in front of my computer's keyboard and once more take up my position as a blogger, I wish each and every one of you everything of the best. And, yes, I miss <i><b>you</b></i> too!<br />
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</tbody></table>All aboard! Jump on the Aspidistra Bus to continue our excursion to this quirkiest of quirky Western Cape (South Africa) nursery!<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><b>Sue Langley</b>,</span> author of the addictive blog, <a href="http://sierrafoothillgarden.wordpress.com/">Sierra Foothill Garden</a> and her latest and very exciting additional blog, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ffleamarketgardening.org%2F&h=oAQEYNeTI">Flea Market Gardening,</a> tweeted about my last post on Aspidistra and mentioned it on her<a href="https://www.facebook.com/fleamarketgardening"> Facebook page,</a> on Wednesday. As of this evening (Friday), <a href="http://driftwoodramblings.blogspot.com/2012/03/visiting-my-favourite-nurseryaspidistra.html">that post</a> has attracted in excess of 900 page views, skyrocketing itself right off the charts in terms of total page views, to date, of any other single post on Driftwood Ramblings. The majority of these views can only be accounted for directly as a result of Sue having 'put the word out' on it. <i>Thank you, Sue!</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aspidistra is a haven for Willie's own pets. I love the way this old garden shed door is decorated, while the shed itself has been repurposed as a bird cage.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another cleverly 'cobbled together' water feature using the scrappiest of scraps. Willie demonstrates that it's not necessary to spend very much money at all to enjoy the sound of water in ones garden.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These are made from tin and really delicately executed. I thought they were quite lovely. Not sure where they are from or who produces them, though. Willie wasn't around to ask. He was busy in Swellendam at the kykNET Road Show, a South African TV Magazine Programme.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">She's not genuinely old, but I loved her! I resisted making her mine, though.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This out-of-focus young boy, and the happy fellow below, would look good tucked in amongst the greenery in anyone's garden. A nice surprise element. See the old tables on which they are displayed? Everything in Willie's nursery is repurposed and adds to the quirky, rustic appeal that I so love about Aspidistra. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was quite striking! Those few thin shards of mirror picked up the light so beautifully.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Clever beadwork!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another of several attractive shoes on display, decoratively wrought from tin.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My Mum had an old tray just like this one. She tossed it out years ago. With a touch of creative wire and beadwork, it becomes an object of rustic beauty and could be used as a bird feeder or shallow bath for butterflies. Note, also, the decorated river stone.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A tin and mosaic bird house, again incorporating mirror. I thought it was quite lovely! Aspidistra has several made along similar lines, each one different from the others. I couldn't choose, so left them all for the next person to deliberate over ;)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Again, something so utterly simple using a weather beaten piece of fencing fashioned into an arch, an old toffee tin and a couple of succulents. Attached to a section of rustic fencing, it has an arresting charm, don't you think?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rusty old baking tins and pots all find a new use in Willie's nursery. He has them planted up and tucked away all over the place. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Willie has a knack of finding really old chairs. He says he's always on the lookout for interesting old things and has a bevy of eager smouses who go around scrounging on his behalf. He repurposes some to use as planters, others are given a role in a staged setting and others serve as stands for potted plants and ornaments. The nursery garden has chairs of every description here, there and everywhere. They all blend in so well and nothing looks out of place or "junky"! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A section of old picket fencing, an old work bench, a rough bit of wood, an old galvanized pail and a couple of potted specimen plants...instant eye appeal and, if this isn't quite to your taste, then at least it creates a conversation starter on the why's and wherefor's of using junk in the garden! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This cat intrigued me. It seemed to follow me all over the garden :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's another example of turning a tossed away item into an alluring planter sure to draw appreciative looks.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I still delight when I see these quirky Pot Men. I know they aren't unique and are available widely, but I think they are very cute :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Give a rickety old cupboard a lick of paint, add your collection of dainty terracotta specimen pots, two disused finials and voila! You have a lovely backdrop for displaying a few pretty potted plants.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Willie sources rusty pails in all sizes and states of wear and tear. Some are fully planted up, others such as this one are used as receptacles for individually potted up plants, still others are used in the making of water gardens and water features. It seems nothing goes to waste when Willie gets his hands on things at which many others would turn up their noses.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Old wire and pliable twigs can be woven into animal shapes for decorative use in the garden or in the potting shed.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Never throw away bits of wood, especially not attractively aged fallen branches or pieces of well-aged root. Willie uses wood (root balls, planks, railway sleepers, aged driftwood) extensively and has an enviable collection that is not for sale. He says he's always on the lookout for pieces wherever he travels.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bits of gravel lying around? Just drill a hole in each piece and fashion yourself a heart or whatever else you fancy! Hang it up in the garden to frame whatever scene you wish to emphasize. The little boy in this picture stepped in without my knowing it. I only spotted him when I came home. I think he completes the picture rather nicely.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another addiction of Willie's is really old wheelbarrows. He has them performing various functions throughout the nursery, with several planted up, as in the case of this particularly handsome example. Others are used very effectively as seductive water features.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These seemingly simple sculptural representations using bits of driftwood, to partly fashion what the eye suggests the shape might be, work superlatively, don't you think? I loved those I saw at Aspidistra! Here, we have a goose in flight.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As shoe bags, these inventions were pretty useless unless your feet are the size of a child's, but planted up and hung in the garden (this one was hanging on a wire chicken coop), they perform not only a useful function but can add an element of surprise and beauty to an otherwise dreary spot. Once the plants fill out, the shoe bag will largely be hidden.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This young male parrot is my husband's favourite pal at Aspidistra. He always gives him extra lengthy neck scratches and the bird seems to recognize him :) </td></tr>
</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Willie has aviaries throughout the nursery, hence the No Dogs Allowed signage at the entrance. All birds and fowl are his private collection. They lend such charm and melody to ones visit!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If you have old broom handles, make yourself a decorative plant hanger, to pretty up your wall, fence or even a chicken coop, as has been done here ;)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here we have evidence that absolutely nothing is discarded. Even an old pot, broken right through the middle, finds a use hung up on its side as a planter on the chicken coop.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A driftwood duck taking a stroll among the plants, no doubt gobbling up any stray snails and slugs missed by the ever present and always busy team of gardeners that keep this nursery perfectly swept and groomed.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A broken statue is cleverly propped so you'd never guess.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love these balls fashioned from bits of driftwood collected along the shoreline at low tide.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A cement angel, in the naive art style, saying a silent prayer beneath this bromeliad clad tree trunk.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Old urns, wirework birdcages, chairs, tables. All have a place at Aspidistra.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A seating area, shaded by a lovely old tree, is defined by the striking blue chairs and old tool trunk that serves double-duty as both foot-rest and coffee table. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another wheelbarrow planted up colourfully. The piece of decorative driftwood tucked in the middle adds sculptural appeal to the simple planting.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I really need to go back to get a better picture of this. Willie has used three, full-length railway sleepers to fashion a simple archway. Attached to this, is a piece of decorative trellising on which potted plants have been hung. It really makes a most attractive feature, completed by having lain large pieces of driftwood and chunks of root at the base and sides. Individually potted plants and a Buddha statue off to one side really enhance the overall feeling of serenity.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Odds and sods, so cleverly cobbled together. This, too, hung on an old Wendyhouse shed, converted into a cage for a pair of parrots.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This old drawer has found a brand new purpose to its existence.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another of the brightly coloured mosaic globes strategically dotted throughout the garden at Aspidistra.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A pottery leaf tucked amongst a carpet of Peace-in-the home and filled with water for passing butterflies, frogs and geckos to refresh themselves.</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYqnkQwTQ3ShbiMOdVA-Qa2m4h8fSLUZXN2S2rZ2jhKqCnQS7hGXW69KTjfE9gauvLtisekBqC5bEgDhq7ZWKmCSHW_Oj0mvq-zR0rmA2ZxT5TBAXs11X0wghRXFfrPqYU6UNvqJVW-Oc/s1600/DSC_2673.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYqnkQwTQ3ShbiMOdVA-Qa2m4h8fSLUZXN2S2rZ2jhKqCnQS7hGXW69KTjfE9gauvLtisekBqC5bEgDhq7ZWKmCSHW_Oj0mvq-zR0rmA2ZxT5TBAXs11X0wghRXFfrPqYU6UNvqJVW-Oc/s640/DSC_2673.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A particularly attractive, homemade, cement water feature! Several of these, all different, have homes in amongst the plants. Being a nursery, just about everything is for purchase. Willie will quickly fill any gaps so you'd never guess anything was bought and frequently, he will utilize the space in a completely different way. It's this attention to detail that makes Aspidistra so enchanting. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">To some, just an 'ugly' chunk of root, yet planted up with greenery, it makes a bold statement at the base of a rickety, wooden bird cage on stilts, lending charm to this section of the nursery garden. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Boring fence? Break it up by attaching prettily potted plants in quirky holders.</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiijNuXRoQtj_nL7XP-YT53G3q8dfNYZGlp5jWkJfjCURmgOcQPYkmEWYDEjtsK_w_q8hH7T27dPVw0nr-iTIGwo30PWkQdYH00LUSczNrCxEm4uXHUzZxU_ML0cHsCfia29DWXg2ycsfI/s1600/DSC_2703.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiijNuXRoQtj_nL7XP-YT53G3q8dfNYZGlp5jWkJfjCURmgOcQPYkmEWYDEjtsK_w_q8hH7T27dPVw0nr-iTIGwo30PWkQdYH00LUSczNrCxEm4uXHUzZxU_ML0cHsCfia29DWXg2ycsfI/s640/DSC_2703.jpg" width="426" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Although the watering can was old, this planter wasn't, but I really liked it! No, I didn't buy it. I was too busy taking these photographs to share with all of you ;)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This genuinely old cage provides protection for the veggies within, allowing sunlight and rain to enter freely, but keeping greedy garden visitors out!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An old oil drum, cut lengthwise, makes a very clever mini-vegetable garden and see how little space it takes up? </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I thought the colours of this little display worked so well against the backdrop of green foliage and bold blue sky. Notice the old garden/hay fork heads tucked into the strawberry planter? </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Now, this was the tiniest of tiny little 'lean-to' green houses, yet it was packed to capacity with all sorts of edibles and even a simple, small water feature fashioned from stone (centre). Here, Willie demonstrates how very little space is needed to create a fully functioning garden eco-system and an enchanting retreat for ones work-weary soul. Again, this entire structure has been fashioned out of toss-away items and could easily fit on a small balcony in an apartment block! Who says you can't have a garden?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Same space, showing what you can put into it to give it visual and emotional appeal.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In another section of the garden, this simple old shelf is turned into a free standing small garden for another tiny space. Using three old pots, Willie has fashioned a small water feature. This, too, could easily find a home on a balcony, and would take up very little space, yet provide the homeowner with a quiet retreat in which to escape at the end of a busy work-a-day week.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This combination really caught my attention!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How is it possible that a bit of rusty chicken wire, a very rusty old pail and a few chipped, cracked and broken pots could become so visually appealing? The idea is to allow these little surprise elements to meld almost completely within the surrounding scene, off set by plenty of greenery. What was really just junk, then becomes an art piece!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This formerly ugly, dented and rusted old paint tin now takes pride of place in the vegetable garden! No need to even paint it, although you could if you wanted to!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There really is no limit to what can be done when we allow our creative juices to run. Remember the teeny tiny greenhouse? This is in there, too!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This little space, neatly framed by clipped hedges becomes a mini-nursery area. Lavenders are grown up from cuttings and a water feature is incorporated to attract birds and butterflies. Once again, everything is old and repurposed.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://soulcomfort.blogspot.com/">Rita</a> expressed some concerns about all the 'standing water' in the nursery and the prevalence of everyone's pet hate, mosquitoes! All water features run daily and birdbaths and other receptacles holding standing water only are flushed daily. This was the only green water I saw. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Those rusty bird cages have so many uses in the garden!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Take a collection of disused, cement clad spades and make yourself a piece of decorative garden art! I love this one!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Toss some small pebbles lovingly collected on your walks into an old galvanized pail, pop it on to a repurposed chair and tuck it in amongst your lush plantings. The birds will love you for it and friends will stop and say, "Wow! That looks lovely!"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This wrought-iron daybed would look so good beneath my Gwenya (African Wild Plum) tree! Decorated with a soft, plump mattress and lots of colourful cushions, it would make a tempting retreat in the bottom of the garden.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I loved this grouping of urns.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Add an old plank, roughly painted in bright colors of your choice, attach it on the outside of an old aviary and top it with a few potted plants to add interest for the birds and your human visitors.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Depending on the amount of interest this post generates, I am happy to do one final post on Aspidistra, as I still have plenty of photographs to share. Besides, I'm always eager to pop around there again to see the new additions Willie will have added since my last visit. So, just say the word and I'm at your command!<br />
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And now, to all my wonderful, regular commenters/readers. Please pop along and acquaint yourselves with Sue (links provided at the start of this post). You will honestly wonder why you'd not done so long ago!<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com90tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7626558959674808582.post-19641913535867315232012-03-03T18:36:00.002+02:002012-03-03T20:14:17.022+02:00Visiting my Favourite Nursery...Aspidistra!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisEH6FGe28-se1T920jctuV5ptxF3usN7JdXWeQHVq1Sp1-7ZTW85bBfVHFX2x4BV2yaCmpKjeTSIs2dECLHv5XaYHg_PFS-9RT6ZNFMiztTpHgbvX8s_xwaGdXumGWe0VdSiFl9J71k0/s1600/DSC_2746.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisEH6FGe28-se1T920jctuV5ptxF3usN7JdXWeQHVq1Sp1-7ZTW85bBfVHFX2x4BV2yaCmpKjeTSIs2dECLHv5XaYHg_PFS-9RT6ZNFMiztTpHgbvX8s_xwaGdXumGWe0VdSiFl9J71k0/s640/DSC_2746.jpg" width="426" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Willie Schmidt is the mastermind behind this beautiful nursery and every single time I visit, there are new things to experience, frequently changes that make me gasp from sheer enjoyment of this exceedingly creative landscape designer's talent. </div><a name='more'></a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Today, we decided to have breakfast in the nursery's charming tea garden under the trees before spending a couple of hours quietly taking in the many, many captivating scenes in the nursery's garden itself.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Willie is incredibly gifted and every which way you turn, there are surprises waiting to delight and astound. You find yourself thinking, "Why hadn't I thought of that?"</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> His style is eclectic and he works with a lot of rusty, throw-away objects sourced from all over. He has the knack of creating multiple tableaux newly set up but giving the impression of having been there for ages. I have often said I wish he could bottle his genius and sell it.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">His nursery has been featured on</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.pasella.com/ghoeroes/ghoeroe-profiel.php?ghoeroe=Willie*Schmidt"> Pasella</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, a much loved South African Afrikaans TV magazine programme, on several occasions and he has been interviewed by and featured in several media publications over the years, yet to meet Willie, your first impression is of a man who shuns fame.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> His nursery and artistry are his abiding passions and he 'lives' his chosen career with great conviction. He and his wife have created a beautiful home in much the same style as his nursery. I would absolutely love to be able to visit his private garden, which one can get a glimpse of when visiting the nursery, but which is not open for public viewing.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Do you have an old aviary? Make a feature of it by planting up some attractive specimen plants.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Old enamelware pails? Easy...just pop in a few bright flowering plants and get an instant wow factor!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Who says knickknacks have no place outdoors?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Striking simplicity masterfully executed using everyday toss away items.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Take a piece of old wood, a pretty tin and two tin birds...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The old wheelbarrow is too rusty to use as a planter? Easy! Just suspend it on its side and you have a striking garden ornament!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here, Willie has used a plank of old wood, a couple of old tools and a section of rusty tin to clever effect to create an eye catching planter.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Refurbishing the bathroom? What to do with the old bath? Just put it in the garden and create an attractive water feature!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Don't throw away your broken pottery!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Even builder's rubble is put to good use!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Have an old door to play around with? </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is not one of Willie's creations. He promotes the work of a number of very talented artists who work with reclaimed materials. This lady is particularly talented!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Willie turns everything into water features. There is no end to his imagination in this regard.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nothing is deemed too ugly to use. Even a piece of worn picket fencing finds a spot as an art piece!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Don't throw away any old pots or pieces of wood. Everything can be turned into something unique.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">As usual, I took many, many pictures, far too many to share in a single post. I am going to have to do several posts in order to do justice to today's visit. (To see my first ever post on Aspidistra, please click the link</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://driftwoodramblings.blogspot.com/2011/07/summer-in-winter.html">HERE</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> )</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Melynda Fleury, blogger extraordinaire and debut author of <b>Just Nonsense</b></td></tr>
</tbody></table>We all know the cliche that, in prosperity, our friends know who we are, but in adversity, we know who our friends are.<br />
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This rings no truer than for <a href="http://melyndarockinthecrazy.blogspot.com/2012/02/random-ramblings-of-mostly-blind-woman.html">Melynda </a>and three of her wonderfully supportive friends who, in her time of need, have rallied together to really make a difference.<br />
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Melynda is diabetic and is sadly rapidly losing the last remaining sightedness in her one no longer good eye. She has been completely blind in the other eye for some time already. A remarkable young woman, Melynda remains positive and cheerful regardless of the many obstacles life throws in her way, yet in the last couple of years she has faced more than most. Her mounting medical costs have been crippling and despite everything she and her husband have done to alleviate their situation, few choices remained to them. They recently had to sell their home and move into a smaller rental home to cut escalating costs to a minimum. Ironically, until Melynda was declared legally blind in both eyes, the American Health Care System would not support her.<br />
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This is where her friends<a href="http://ecwrites.blogspot.com/2012/01/if-you-love-melynda-read-this.html"> Elisa</a>, Fran (aka <a href="http://ecwrites.blogspot.com/2012/02/klutz-fishducky-friday.html">fishducky</a>) and<span id="goog_572908746"></span> <a href="http://vivelenerd.blogspot.com/">Joshua</a> boldly stepped up to the challenge in their selfless quest to do something positively punchy to help her. They have taken the would-be book of short stories and blog posts that Melynda had haphazardly cobbled together prior to losing her sight and have spent countless hours editing and re-editing them to get ready for publication. In addition, Elisa applied her very creative mind to designing an unusually eye-catching book cover and, voila! They have succeeded in getting Melynda's first book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Just-Nonsense-January-March-ebook/dp/B007EHO0B2/ref%3dsr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1330536471&sr=8-4"><b>Just Nonsense</b> </a>published! This was done very much in secret, all behind the scenes, in the dead of night, to keep her in the dark (excuse the pun) until today...1st March 2012!<br />
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Melynda's book is officially being launched for sale<b> TODAY!</b> All proceeds will go towards funding her special needs. Isn't that exciting? Don't you just love a feel good story? You do? Oh, good! Because...<br />
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This is where I now graciously invite YOU to step into the picture to complete the happy scene. Please click on the link provided and order yourself a copy of<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13447118-just-nonsense"> Melynda's book</a>. You will definitely find her a laugh a minute. She has a unique way of looking at the trials and tribulations of life and turning them into moments worthy of mirth. You might even want to buy a second copy of her book as a gift for someone dear to you. She really is that easy to share and I can guarantee you will not be disappointed...at the same time, you will be helping her friends realize their dream of making a difference in her life!<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">"I helped edit this book, so I have already read it--BUT I STILL WANT A COPY!! What a treat it was to read a well written, hilarious book of things that could have only happened to Melynda!!" Fran Fischer</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gorgeous climber rose in The Post House's delightful garden</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Today was one of my favourite kind of days. A day when I had the freedom and time to explore<i> </i>a<i> little </i>of one of my favourite South African villages, namely Greyton. This quaint settlement, so reminiscent of an English country village, is situated in the beautiful mountainous region of the Western Cape. While Greyton gives the impression of being thousands of kilometres away, it takes a mere hour and a half to drive there from Cape Town.<br />
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</tbody></table>So, what was I doing there? Well, as regular readers of Driftwood Ramblings will know by now, I occasionally get to accompany my husband on 'field trips'. Today was one of those occasions, but with a slight difference. Instead of joining him and all the other specialists 'on site', my husband felt I'd be far happier 'doing my own thing' in the village, while they tackled the hot, dry, barren site. I couldn't have agreed with him more!<br />
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I was dropped off at The Post House, a wonderful original old building erected in 1860 as, you guessed it, a post office! Today, it has been beautifully refurbished, retaining its charming history, but serving now as one of Greyton's most luxurious Guest Houses. Since I had not eaten breakfast and it was just past 9 am, I followed my nose to where a wonderful coffee aroma taunted my olfactory sense. After ordering a cup of freshly brewed filter coffee, I sat happily anticipating my breakfast of eggs, bacon, grilled tomato, mushrooms and farmhouse toast with homemade peach preserve. When it arrived, I tucked right in and only after I'd enjoyed the last yummy morsel did I realize I'd missed a photo opportunity. I did, however, snap a few pictures of the dining room while awaiting my meal...<br />
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And below, we have a view taken from the street side verandah of The Post House...<br />
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After having satiated myself with a second cup of coffee to end my meal, I ambled into the very pretty garden and snapped several more pictures...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The vegetable patch is named after Beatrix Potter's famous farmer and each of the guest rooms is named after a character from her books...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mr Mc Gregor's vegetable patch.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I climbed the time worn ladder stairway to the loft room in order to get this photograph of the rather tempting pool area.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Each guest room has its own private patio seating overlooking the gardens.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These pretty stained glass windows define the ends of each length of covered verandah adjoining the guest rooms.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These two lovely palm trees tower above the garden providing shade from the hot sun and nesting opportunities for several birds.</td></tr>
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I must say, time has a habit of passing all too quickly when I'm enjoying myself and so, after a couple of hours had elapsed, I realized I'd better move further along the road, lest I miss out on taking in a little more of the village scene...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This extra-length chair was placed invitingly on the pavement outside an eclectic shop selling all sorts of things belonging to a bygone age.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the colourful village shops. This one was unfortunately closed for business on Tuesdays, so missed out on my visit. I photographed it, because the peacock tails were decorated with mirror and reflected ever so prettily in the bright sunlight.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A pretty garden welcomes one to this particular Estate Agent's offices.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>I wandered in and out of several little shops, looked at properties for sale on the boards outside a couple of estate agents to get a feel for the property market in Greyton and then discovered a rather delightful interior decor and gift shop, where I spent another good while gazing at all that was on display.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My iced tea, a brand I had not yet seen, was very pleasant.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Having eaten a hearty breakfast just a couple of hours earlier, I did not order anything to eat with my iced tea, but I did think the menu looked quite tempting for another time</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This mosaic water feature was on the wall behind where I was seated. I thought it was very cleverly executed.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>By this time, I'd built up a bit of a thirst. Two cups of good, strong coffee has that effect on me, so I trundled across the road and seated myself on a large wooden couch beneath the cooling shade of a vine covered pergola and ordered an iced tea. Once again, my eye was drawn to my immediate surrounding and I couldn't resist snapping another couple of pictures. I'd just finished my iced tea when my husband called to say he was on his way back to collect me. And so ended a perfectly delightful morning!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7626558959674808582.post-26158644331099654042012-02-13T23:04:00.001+02:002012-02-14T09:09:03.319+02:00In No Particular Sequence!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I woke up this morning,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>fully intending '</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">to get my house in order'. That was until the temptation to venture out into the garden became far too insistent to resist.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I picked up my camera, intending to take just a few pictures of the garden bed outside the front door.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This is where the ashes of our beloved canine companions, who no longer grace our lives, are scattered.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-size: medium;">This urn is directly opposite the raised planter outside our front door. I love the continuous sound of water pouring from the spout of the old pump.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The temptation to take more pictures of the garden as a whole became far too insistent to resist. Either that, or I was procrastinating.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">By the time I stepped back indoors a couple of hours later, I'd taken 248 pictures in all.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I have had to ruthlessly make a selection for this post tonight. What follows is a representative sample, presented in no particular sequence, excepting that...</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">...no stroll around my garden is complete without including a visit to see what's happening in the greenhouse...</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">That way, you can stay for as long or as short a time as you wish and I won't think you're ill-mannered leaving 'mid-sentence' !</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I told you I 'd be back.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>It has just taken a little longer than I'd planned. After all, the job of playing is serious business. Anyway, now that I'm finally seated at the computer keyboard, I want to spotlight what we got up to this past weekend.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Toby and I are what you'd call canine amphibians.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In fact, we see ourselves as the prototypes for all CA's. We can swim for ages without getting tired.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> We regularly end up underwater in our enthusiastic play. Does that fill us with apprehension? No way!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">We just give ourselves an extra hard shake upon exiting the pool.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I trained in earnest whilst still just a tiny puplet. I even had to have my own special step, since I was so small and couldn't get into, or out of the pool without it.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Being gifted with superior intelligence, I learnt very quickly and soon swam better than an otter.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Fear of diving into the deep end? Not I! I live to swim.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Then, Toby came along.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> He underwent the same intensive training, but with one difference.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">He had</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b> me </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">to mentor him and so he rapidly proved to be an excellent amphibious canine.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Toby does the flappy mouth shake superbly!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">He sprays water everywhere!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">He has great finesse when he dives off the edge.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Just take a look at those poised, elongated limbs and finely tuned athletic physique!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Toby has surpassed me now. He can do this over and over again, without getting tired.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I used to land with some impressive splashes, but Toby has since cornered that market.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Toby leaping off the top step to retrieve a tennis ball, while Noodle observes.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here he comes, with the ball ready to have it thrown into the water again.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hey, Toby! Watch where you're shaking! You got me in the eye!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sometimes, to vary the game, we all congregate around the pool and see who can catch the ball first.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here we are, eagerly watching. Toby knows he's got this one!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Noodle is becoming a better swimmer each time she ventures in.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coco still prefers to watch the activity from the sidelines.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Milo is dying to jump in, but is still a bit apprehensive. He swims well once he's in the water.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"We girls sometimes find it a bit hot in the sun, so we like to cool ourselves off in the shade."</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Milo is Toby's shadow, egging him on to dive in and retrieve all the balls.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">He's Toby most enthusiastic supporter. Just look at the size of that grin!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Yes, we certainly do enjoy our times spent in and around the pool.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Soon Milo, Coco and Noodle with swim as confidently as Toby and I do.<br />
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</tbody></table><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I will be back with more of our antics as soon as I get the chance to prepare another post. Right now, I'm off to nap.</div> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com50tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7626558959674808582.post-70708388050334272712012-02-04T23:05:00.000+02:002012-02-04T23:05:20.649+02:00The Prettiest Tiny Garden!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Such a pretty bowl of welcoming flowers!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Some of my 'faithful followers' know of my daughter Linda, either through <a href="http://www.thesquashedtomato.co.za/animal-outreach/">'Romeo's Wish'</a>, or through reading her blog, <a href="http://thesquashedtomato.blogspot.com/">The Squashed Tomato.</a> As her exceedingly proud mother (don't get me started, else I fear I won't be able to stop myself) I know I am not just biased in her favor. She really is that special and I regularly wish I could sing her praises from the rooftops (she will not allow me to do so and that is why I am so reticent).<br />
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Now, before you grab your things and rush away, thinking I'm just another blogger nauseatingly puffed up with maternal pride, please let me reassure you right here and now. This post is not about Linda. It is about her little garden. I was there yesterday and, although I had not taken my camera along, I just could not resist snapping away using my mobile's camera. I do hope that all of you who are 'novice gardeners' or who have teeny tiny plots of your own will be able to glean some lovely ideas from Linda's delightfully pretty, little garden. I am so proud of what she has achieved in her own teeny tiny garden.<br />
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See for yourselves...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This woven screen gives her privacy from the cars which park directly beyond this gateway. I really love what she has done to make this an attractive feature in her small front yard.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A narrow little bed filled with perennials each flowering in its own appointed season to add year round interest.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Every gardener deserves a quiet spot from which to enjoy her garden!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It just goes to show that you can effectively incorporate bold leaved plants even in a very small space!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What is a garden without a water feature. This little pond has seven fat, happy goldfish living in it!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In a tiny garden, these elements of whimsy add an element of delightful surprise. Linda tastefully places her 'surprises' in the most appropriate spots.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I helped her start her garden when she became the proud owner of her townhouse in March 2010. I was given strict instructions, "no fussy plants". She wanted an 'easy-care garden' and has certainly succeeded in achieving this.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The little pond runs continuously and its soothing trickles are incredibly comforting to the ear.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This Pussy Willow is her only tree. It is growing strongly in its pot and adds a lovely shade of green and soft foliage to break the wall beside her pond. Notice the mirror cleverly tucked behind the greenery.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another corner of her small front garden. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There are three trellised creepers trained up the three walls enclosing her front yard. They flower gloriously when it's their season, emitting the most beautiful perfume.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of two window boxes on either side of her patio door exiting into the front garden. Notice the solar lights that are strategically positioned around this little garden, At night, she has her very own little fairyland.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is her back yard. It is here that she and her guests gain access to her home. I love this bright splash of color to welcome every arrival!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A healthy Gardenia shrub greets with its heady perfume right outside the backdoor entrance.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A nest of pots and a birdbath add beauty to this corner of the tiny back yard.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Linda has a couple of wall ornaments to add interest to an otherwise monotonous expanse of back yard wall.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A small wrought ironwork table graces this corner, attractively adorned with a cluster of potted plants. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Birds are most welcome to stop for a drink in this little Eden.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This little shelf displaying a pretty succulent is strategically placed on the wall above the birdbath.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>In case anyone was wondering, this garden tour was entirely unsolicited and unexpected by the homeowner who, at the time I visited, wasn't even present. She was in fact back at my home, taking care of the dogs so that I could attend an appointment in Cape Town. That being said, she had not prepared her garden for this impromptu photo-shoot! What I saw and captured was exactly as I found it. No sprucing or hurried manicuring. It really is just this pretty all the time! Now do you see one of the many reasons I'm so jolly proud of her? Should you wish to find out more about her, please feel free to visit her <a href="http://thesquashedtomato.blogspot.com/">blog</a> or her <a href="http://www.thesquashedtomato.co.za/">website</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com73tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7626558959674808582.post-32076671054337685572012-01-25T23:40:00.003+02:002012-02-04T17:39:48.278+02:00Bonny 29/3/2001 – 21/01/2012<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</tbody></table></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Right now, my human companions are hurting, so I have taken it upon myself to share our sad news. Bonny, our much loved, irreplaceable family member has gone to the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: magenta;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcQvYh_3Atw" style="background-color: white;">Rainbow Bridge</a></span></span>.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her 'too soon' release from this earthly realm has left a huge gap in our home and we all miss her painfully. Unlike humans, with whom we choose to share our lives, our instincts are far sharper, so we of course knew Bonny had died. When our human family led us, one by one to say goodbye to Bonny, we all reacted in exactly the same way. We filed past her prone body in hushed silence, eyes averted, tails hanging low and at ease. Briefly, yet reverently, we saluted her departed spirit. We gently sniffed her earthly remains and, with quiet understanding, walked away. We knew that, from now on, we each had a new role to adopt. Most importantly, we knew that it was our God-given duty to console and comfort our grieving humans. We understand, too well, how frail and vulnerable humans become when confronted with matters of death. At times such as these, we take our companionship duties very seriously.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I came to live with my family as a five week old rescue pup, right before Christmas 2004, Bonny and Tessa (21/11/1997 – 5/5/2010) were here to welcome me and teach me everything they knew. Tessa became a caring, gentle mother to me, while Bonny and I became the best of playmates. In some ways, I now feel like a bit of an orphan, because I've lost my two, first, 'best friends'. I am now solely in charge of my pack and it's a big responsibility, considering I'm by far the shortest around here.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Right after Tessa died, my humans fetched pedigreed Toby to come and live with us, to help us all get over the great loss we felt at her departure. Toby was just an 8 week old pup then. I can say with pride that I valiantly stepped up to the cause, helping Bonny raise him to become the fine young Shep he is today. When our family decided to adopt a few more rescue pups soon after Toby's first birthday, Bonny was absolutely amazing. She tirelessly put up with the little ruffians and helped Toby, little more than a pup himself, and me, to accept them with love. She put Toby in his place with tender persuasion when he became aggrieved and taught him to share and to love our new brothers and sisters. In her quiet, undemanding way, Bonny was our rock. She led by setting an excellent example. If only humans could do the same.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today, as I type this on Desiree's keyboard, there are now just the five of us to continue Bonny's remarkable legacy. What have we all learnt from her? </span> </div><ul><li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Until the very end, never give up.</span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Never ever complain.</span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Always put on a happy face and enjoy every single moment of your life. </span> </div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Never get snappy or irritable.</span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Share whatever you have, but if you really want it yourself, then quietly show that for now, you choose to hold on to it a bit longer. </span> </div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Never snatch or grab. Wait patiently at all times and your treats will come to you.</span></div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If anything annoys you, just quietly walk away. </span> </div></li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When anyone has been away, even if only for a very short time, welcome them back with every ounce of yourself. Make certain they know, every single day, just how very much you love and value them.</span></div></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Bonny did not enjoy posing for her Christmas picture in that silly hat</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">She was so beautiful!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Although Bonny loved swimming, she was not as eager as Toby and I to swim in the pool at home</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Dams and rivers were her favourite places to cool down on a hot day</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Here, she comes face to face with her first herd of cows</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Enjoying a bit of a rest after some hard play in the garden</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Bonny helping Desiree size up where to position the greenhouse</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Bonny and Toby in our Corsa bakkie. We had to replace it with a much bigger bakkie when suddenly there were six of us. Travelling was Bonny's all-time favourite activity. She still got to enjoy one last ride on the morning of the day she passed away. </span></td></tr>
</tbody></table></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And now, it's just us. The next few pictures were taken today...</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Looking into Bonny's room from the outside landing at Toby, Milo and Coco who were trying it out for size today. I used to sleep with Bonny quite often, but since she died, I've slept in the kitchen all night with Toby and Milo. Coco and Noodle sleep in our humans' room at night.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Coco, Noodle and Milo relaxing on Bonny's bed today</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Coco looks in on Toby, Milo and Noodle lying in Bonny's room</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Coco and Bonny spent quite a lot of time alone together. Here's Coco, today, looking into Bonny's room from the landing outside </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Noodle only knew Bonny for a few, short months, but she misses her a lot, as we all do.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It saddens me deeply that so many humans treat their pets with such disdain. It is my fervent hope that humans will grasp the necessary understanding that we are a gift from heaven. We come into your lives for a limited amount of time, demanding nothing and loving completely. Please treat us with respect, otherwise don't get a pet. We are not disposable! Just as you are our responsibility during our lifetime, so we remain yours for the full duration of our lives. </span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">There is nothing I enjoy more after a hot Summer's day than relaxing in my garden in the cool of the evening...day's tasks completed, I succumb to the pleasurable condition of simply 'being'. At one with my surroundings, I immerse myself in the wafting scents and 'let go' of the need to do anything. Another day has passed, busily. Now is my time to recharge.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Quietly strolling along the garden path lit by dozens of twinkly little lights, I am able to still my racing thoughts and permit myself to simply 'be' tossing aside concerns about the next chore to be done. I take a slow, deep breath content that whatever lies ahead can wait until a new day dawns. I know I have done my best on this day and have earned my moment of stillness.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"From home to home and heart to heart, the warmth and joy at Christmas brings us closer to each other." ~ Emily Matthew</span></td></tr>
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With 2011 almost at an end and the holiday season right upon us, I really do want to finish showing you the last three gardens we visited during our Franschhoek Open Gardens weekend tour. I am combining them into a single post, since they were all fairly compact in size and all young gardens. Each is evidently much loved by its owner and well thought out and each had its own unique look and feel.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">All of the water features were self built as well and, you guessed it, constructed of steel, thus ensuring that no unwelcome algae would dare deface the clear water. In contrast, the wife, Jackie Loubser, was all about growing things as naturally and organically as possible. Soil health and enhancement using her own homemade compost is her passion.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I really loved Jackie's garden and her whole ethos towards growing things in a healthy, sustainable way. Jackie was most inspiring and such a warm, animated hostess. It was a treat to have met her! </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Jackie loves attracting wildlife to her garden. She has a whole family of chameleons in residence at present.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The second garden, Mayflower, was very formal, making excellent use of the limited space available and expertly drawing in the view of the surrounding mountains in a most pleasing way.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">It rained fairly heavily when we visited this garden...</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> Everything was precise and strictly controlled to establish order and harmony. It was very interesting to see and without doubt, a truly lovely garden. </span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">While I did admire the very formal layout of Mayflower, this type of garden is not one I would want to emulate. I prefer a far more haphazard approach in my own garden. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Nothing was out of place in this 3 year old garden!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The narrow back garden...all available space was put to good use in a most pleasing way.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">And an even narrower side garden was attractively designed and perfectly maintained.</span></td></tr>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The third and final garden, Rehoboth, was my least favourite of all the gardens. Not because the owners had not put a lot of thought and planning into the design. It was clear they had and it certainly was pleasant visiting this garden, but I found it quite difficult to take pictures. It just didn't have enough that really held my interest and I have to admit to having had to find my pictures. In gardens such as Fay's and Henk's, although also small, the pictures leapt out at me from all directions. </span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The water feature was very pretty and served as the focal point on the top terrace.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I liked this built-in stone bench!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A pretty pink floribunda creeping rose.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The bees were attracted to the birds' nectar feeder!</span></td></tr>
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Those of you who have joined me from the start of this series of posts, featuring the ten private gardens open to public viewing during the 2011 Franschhoek Open Gardens tour, may recall my having mentioned that we'd had the special privilege of being invited to view a private garden that was NOT on the list of open gardens. I am delighted to be sharing it with you, today!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To see more of this unique garden that was featured on the BBC Documentary series, "Around the World in 80 Gardens", continue reading.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This extraordinary garden belongs to renowned South African landscaper and artist, Henk Scholtz. We were driving past his home when, out of the corner of my eye, I caught a momentary flash of something that piqued my interest.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> I turned quickly in my seat to determine whether it was worth asking my long suffering husband to make a U-turn. Having established that this was indeed a garden I ought to explore a little closer, we pulled up at the kerb so I could take a photograph from the pavement.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> I hopped out, camera in hand and noticed a man bidding farewell to some guests in the circular parking area beyond the fenced off garden. Not sure whether this was the owner, or a neighbour from the adjacent property, I paused momentarily, then called out asking whether he'd mind if I took a picture of the mannequin standing sentry in the front garden. It was she who had beckoned me to "come hither!" Henk says she's his security guard.</span></td></tr>
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To my delight, my request was met with the broadest smile and I was told to "Go ahead!" Whether it was my clumsy attempt to lean into the garden from the other side of the perimeter fence, or my own delightful personality, I'll never know. The important thing is, Henk suddenly called out, "Please, come in. You'll find it easier to take your photograph inside the garden", </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">an invitation that was hard for me to resist. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Politeness caused me to decline, somewhat half-heartedly I am compelled to admit, since I really did want to accept this kind offer. Henk reissued his invitation warmly assuring me that it would be no problem at all. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The clever use of shells add decorative appeal to this otherwise plain, galvanised gate, separating the front garden from the side garden.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Truly, a garden full of surprises! Here, Henk uses an old tyre to create a visually appealing bowl of potted pansies. Whoever would have imagined a tyre could become an object of beauty? There were two identical tyre gardens, one at each end of the front of the house. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Henk mostly relies on indigenous plants in his garden. Although it is a small garden, he has used the available space to maximum effect and, with clever design, it appears infinitely larger than it really is. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Groups of garden implements are arranged in 'dead' zones creating interest whilst simultaneously show casing some of Henk's collections. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Once I was inside the front fence and on his thrilling turf, all barriers seemed to crumble. My eyes literally popped out on stalks in their excitement to see as much of this garden as possible in the few minutes I thought I had available. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Henk had no doubt picked up on my unbridled enthusiasm, because once I'd hesitantly taken a couple of self-conscious pictures and was about to retreat back to the car, he offered to show me the hidden garden behind the house. I felt common courtesy demanded that I decline once more. It was, after all, a Saturday afternoon and I had no intention of intruding on his privacy. However, Henk once again pressed me most sincerely and invited my husband to join us. Besides, who could have resisted those beautiful blue eyes? Certainly not I. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">So, without further ado, we stepped through the house and out the other side, into what I can only describe as being an arresting space. It conveyed an immediate sense of mystical calmness. Circular in design, the garden itself is beautifully landscaped, immaculately manicured and totally private.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> An instantly striking feature is the peacock blue, perimeter wall facing on to the garden. It both contrasts with and complements the emerald greens of the lawn and formal plantings, creating the perfect backdrop to this incredibly arty landscape.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> From a purely technical perspective, I have</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> NEVER</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> seen such precision in the shaping and clipping of formal hedges, green obelisks and lollipop heads as I saw in Henk's garden. My breathing literally stopped for a moment when I first laid eyes on this totally private, whimsical, yet highly controlled, formal design. I enquired as to who was responsible for the day to day upkeep. The answer was Henk himself. He does employ a gardener, but does not permit him to touch the hedges. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6sU5vvBUlA6gdnbMJTnhJzOJKAtudUAoaNYJvp-ZAwBOi4XFRjLPUjNDLpATa0HQIDPMlpWSh5d0buQLukgvCEPsgQJjnWQ1C2KmRJrsL4wG3YPRPxAGG4XioLp-hEIhUGSrORG3xj_Q/s1600/DSC_1768.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6sU5vvBUlA6gdnbMJTnhJzOJKAtudUAoaNYJvp-ZAwBOi4XFRjLPUjNDLpATa0HQIDPMlpWSh5d0buQLukgvCEPsgQJjnWQ1C2KmRJrsL4wG3YPRPxAGG4XioLp-hEIhUGSrORG3xj_Q/s640/DSC_1768.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Henk's genuine joy at sharing his personal sanctuary was palpable. He is a charming man, infectiously gracious and generous of spirit and it wasn't hard to instantly LIKE him. He has the friendliest Whippet Hound who goes by the name of La Rose. She is clearly the love of Henk's life and he, hers, but her demonstrations of warm affection towards us showed there's plenty to go around.</span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Henk has a wonderful sense of humour and regaled us with interesting snippets and quips, whilst we walked around taking our pictures. I would have loved to have taken many more, but I also wanted to simply imbibe the moment and offer our charming host the courtesy of my attentive ear, so I took far fewer pictures than I could have in the time we were there.</span> </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Just look at these colours. How they stand out against the heavy, grey clouds draped over the mountain tops.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Henk's garden backs directly on to farmland, even though it is situated in the village itself. La Rose had dropped a small parcel on the immaculate and almost too green to be real (it was very real!) lawn. Quick as a wink, Henk fetched up a shovel, niftily flicked the offending parcel on to its tip and, almost in the same motion, deftly flung it high into the air and away into the farmland beyond his perimeter wall, explaining that "it all becomes compost, after all!" Who can argue with that? It was one of the funniest things I'd seen and I'd wished I could do the same with the parcels our six dogs leave all over the garden, but our neighbours would most definitely not be charmed.</span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Henk's artistic side really shows in everything we saw. He eagerly uses recycled materials and objects. With his keen imagination, he turns even the humdrum into something truly eye-catching. His love of "old" as opposed to shiny, new, modern and brash comes across in the earthy tones and materials he selects and in the respectful way in which he treats his subjects. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">All the artwork featured in his garden are Henk's creations. He takes discarded, rusty relics, imbuing them with new life to create quirky, alien sculptural forms that add impact to the overall design of his garden. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This garden is defined by the passion of its creator and his desire to preserve, restore and honour timeworn objects. One of the features displayed on the verandah wall is this collection of very old, hand tools. Henk told us these were owned by an old lady who had been an avid gardener. She had to modify the handles to continue gardening well into her 90s, without having to bend. When she moved to an Old Age facility and could no longer garden, Henk adopted the tools and has preserved them in her memory. This story really touched a spot in my heart as it reveals a loving, caring man. </span></td></tr>
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All of this was 'right on our doorstep' and yet, until that chance encounter, I'd not heard of Henk or the BBC documentary. It just goes to show. One should always keep ones eyes open and never fear to venture where you've not been before. Wonderful surprises await if you're only open to them!</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The owner of this extensive property is clearly not only an enthusiastic rose collector, on a scale few are lucky enough to achieve, but an avid sportsman as well. Apart from a fully dedicated gym facility and tennis courts, there was a cricket net for practice purposes. It therefore seems appropriate to quote Ben Hogan as we walk across the perfectly manicured lawns admiring roses every whichway we turn our heads: "As you walk down the fairway of life, you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you want to be assailed by the beautiful treasures this astounding garden has to offer, continue reading...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pausing for a moment, to allow the brevity of Ben Hogan's words to sink in fully...</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...let me share with you an inscription from one of the headstones we saw in the old Fran</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">schhoek cemetery... </span></span></td></tr>
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As you are now, so once was I.<br />
As I am now, so must you be.</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Right! Now let's proceed with viewing this estate, whilst holding those poignant words in mind. Remember, take it all in, knowing you'll only pass by this glorious place, once! Unless of course you care to revisit my posting again :)</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The long, rose-lined driveway leading from La Providence to the public road below. I think this property would more accurately be termed, A Gentleman's Residence. The large duck pond (dam) that was undergoing repairs at the time of our visit and had been completely drained, is just visible to the left (the cobblestone edging belies how large and deep it is!)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A sea of Iceberg roses welcomes visitors to the main homestead.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Main entrance to the Guest House at La Providence.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A lovely Guest House lies adjacent to the main house. It is fully self-contained and completely separate from the Manor House, with its own beautiful garden and stunning pool area.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The generously proportioned Guest House was well-concealed by roses and an ivy clad pergola extending around three sides of the house. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Looking up at the Guest House from the rose garden below.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The front entrance to the Guest House.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The Guest House pool comes with its own life guards. They were having a practice drill when we arrived on the scene.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"We are having such a lovely swim in the Guest House pool. Our dam is being reconstructed at this time."</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The private pool area of the Guest House.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The Guest House verandah which ran along the full length of the house on three sides is festooned with full blown roses. An ivy clad pergola provides welcome shade and a marvellous sense of coolness and calmness.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The view from the attractive verandah of the Guest House.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The narrow walkway down the far side of the Guest House, which led from the gazebo in the picture below, to the private pool area in front, was also lavishly planted with roses and other flowering perennials.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">An attractive, thatched gazebo on the lawn in front of the Guest House, probably used for enjoying al fresco breakfasts and lunches.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The Guest House gazebo set amidst a prettily landscape garden.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">An after-swim nap in the shade of a palm tree. Bliss!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The side entrance to the formal garden and pool area in front of the Manor House.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Nothing on this property was purely functional. Everything was selected or constructed to offer visual appeal. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Many of the older properties in Franschhoek had slave bells from days of yore. I doubt this one was a genuine artefact, but it made a most attractive statement as a feature at the far end of the wide, shaded front verandah of the Manor House.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5tHdcdz2op8TX8Uawprn_BkZRY6hXxjV1HdN3FHcS7SK-TOJYBOjcE_t9Hr4uFWQDzU5Cu2TBjR_vae52TpLG9hnonunOdHN7UsLE2o8KQbB9jSGoIJ2UyKUqqO9tDCLr7j0AmDzsAlE/s1600/DSC_1683.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5tHdcdz2op8TX8Uawprn_BkZRY6hXxjV1HdN3FHcS7SK-TOJYBOjcE_t9Hr4uFWQDzU5Cu2TBjR_vae52TpLG9hnonunOdHN7UsLE2o8KQbB9jSGoIJ2UyKUqqO9tDCLr7j0AmDzsAlE/s640/DSC_1683.jpg" width="426" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Every part was made into a feature in its own right. This cellar doorway, possibly housing gardening tools and wood for the winter months, was an artwork deserving of appreciation.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The amount of work that this garden requires is mind-boggling!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This is only a small section of the wide expanse that makes up the side on facade of this enormous home. Look at those perfectly clipped hedges and balls.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A view across the pool from one of the screening arbours incorporated into the whole design surrounding the pool, creating an entirely different garden room within the main body of the Manor House garden.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">One of the elevated seating areas surrounding the pool, on three sides. One of the formally constructed water features is visible behind the seating. These were built to screen the pool from the garden beyond. Smaller water features were incorporated on both sides of the ornate walls. The walls were in turn separated from each other by formally clipped hedges, serving as a green screen to break up the starkness of the lemon and white painted walls. Additionally, attractive flower beds were also incorporated to further enhance the feeling of being contained within a separate garden. It was evidently a vast undertaking to plan and landscape all of this so beautifully and cohesively.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">There were several seating areas surrounding the pool, each at a slightly different elevation. Each of the formal constructions screening off the pool, from the remainder of the vast garden, served as a water feature in its own right. Both sides (front and back) of the wall were put to use.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Lollipop bushes accent the undulating hills and mountains beyond. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A wide-angled picture to give some idea of the size of this water garden.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The water garden was huge...I loved the way attractive planters were sunk in the water.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Pond closeup...the water looked a little green on the day we visited.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Wherever your gaze drifts in this garden, it's bound to rest on a featured rose.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">One of three identical features screening off the enormous swimming pool from the rest of the garden.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A section of the formal rose garden situated directly below the extensive manor house swimming pool and behind the gym facility.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The gym and tennis court, surrounded by exquisite roses, planted formally in gardens and tumbling and cascading over walls and up trellises.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The entrance to the gym and tennis court.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Standing in the rose garden adjacent to the gym and tennis court, looking back towards the Manor House.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The roses surrounding the tennis court were named after Tennis greats.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"Won't you come into the garden. I would like my roses to see you." <br />
~Richard Brinsley Sheridan~</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"It was roses, roses, all the way."<br />
~Robert Browning~</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom."<br />
~Terri Guillemets~</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">One of my Mother's favourite roses is Elina! </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">One stem of these makes a bridal bouquet!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">We saw roses of every hue.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This huge garden makes extensive use of pergolas, obelisks and arbours.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Even the birds residing here live in style!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I cannot believe how quickly time is passing. Our wonderful trip to view the open gardens in Franschhoek seems a distant memory apart from the reminder we have by way of the hundreds of photographs we took.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">La Brie, the farm garden I am showcasing today, presented us not only with three separate gardens to view...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">...but also with the opportunity to meet a number of the resident animals. Here's looking at you, Odie!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">...since there is so much material...will you look at those bushy eyebrows!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">...but I have opted to keep this post it as one...</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">...even though this means it is going to be fairly lengthy...</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">So, for those of you who have braved my lengthy posts before...brace yourselves. Those of you who are too busy to hang around...Cheers! Porky over here will be happy to escort you off the property.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"I have heard Odie, over at The Simple Life, absolutely loves my kind!" </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"So, Odie, here I am practising my best pose for you!"</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"I've been growing my goatee to delight the ladies. Do you think it's looking impressive enough?"</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"Excuse me...may I please remind you that this is meant to be a post about our <i>farm</i>, not YOU, Billy Goat!"</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Thank goodness for Toady! At last we can proceed with the tour of this garden...we'll spend a few moments at the waterlily covered lake to set the scene...</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">It was overcast and drizzly, but we were not at all deterred!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Surrounded by so much beauty, who would care about a bit of drizzle?</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">After enjoying The Lake, we moved to the next garden at La Brie...The Potager! </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This was a delightful garden of roses, herbs and vegetables, beautifully laid out and carefully tended...</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">...with the central arbour forming an exquisite focal point!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This was huge, but I'd love a smaller version in my own garden!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Isn't it gorgeous?</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Have you spotted the horses in the paddock ahead? I'll show you where they are stabled in a little while.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I just want to sit quietly on this rustic bench to imbibe the loveliness and sense of calm pervading the potager garden.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">As with all gardens in and around Franschhoek, this one is surrounded by lush vineyards and superb mountain vistas.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Artichokes are such sculptural flowers! Since they require so much space, I've not tried to grow them myself. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2yvLvsy8hU0M3cgJYyNXEkrPzU3t8fCqXO-X5MId73KmZYySJCblYtzUUFv6V6RDj7fGV9ZC4N-9dPlIOA-npJYajrC2R5l2JkSIY4_OfRf-YCsOY2rgpb6xUAEhIWF_yBB2Viw1ssNs/s1600/DSC_1542.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2yvLvsy8hU0M3cgJYyNXEkrPzU3t8fCqXO-X5MId73KmZYySJCblYtzUUFv6V6RDj7fGV9ZC4N-9dPlIOA-npJYajrC2R5l2JkSIY4_OfRf-YCsOY2rgpb6xUAEhIWF_yBB2Viw1ssNs/s640/DSC_1542.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">As promised, here is the stabling for the very lucky and pampered horses that call La Brie, home!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">They each have their own hanging flower basket!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Much of the main garden around the Manor House consisted of perfectly manicured lawns, surrounded by formal plantings in beds demarcated by neatly clipped hedges.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnCBNLo-MEYeUUtFLPPtNqoA5pnCO0AnCktC9RbtcxwaPuCLziFQvg-2u9Tjr-wi-6z-8ixfdavFOv5hwMrHF2uRUbPZgovu_1e9-mtXk1JqHK1LU_wP5J3JZF04zVvPfYEP_RO2VOxns/s1600/DSC_1556.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnCBNLo-MEYeUUtFLPPtNqoA5pnCO0AnCktC9RbtcxwaPuCLziFQvg-2u9Tjr-wi-6z-8ixfdavFOv5hwMrHF2uRUbPZgovu_1e9-mtXk1JqHK1LU_wP5J3JZF04zVvPfYEP_RO2VOxns/s640/DSC_1556.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A number of lovely, ornate water features added their silent reflections to enhance the overall beauty and pervasive calm of La Brie. This one is at the side entrance to the Manor House.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFDDXPNDZgOeKs9-3Ts1AVBJbY8LXUgou9UtXCOvDlwd0ueu2O5QQKWvnkOTFQH12915Ha_QY_5bOc8nBIOp1lyKNZwO4x4xa8um7ETPHHi3S-ZD40MHzKRgRfikSfb-S7g10-SNPdEAk/s1600/DSC_1558.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFDDXPNDZgOeKs9-3Ts1AVBJbY8LXUgou9UtXCOvDlwd0ueu2O5QQKWvnkOTFQH12915Ha_QY_5bOc8nBIOp1lyKNZwO4x4xa8um7ETPHHi3S-ZD40MHzKRgRfikSfb-S7g10-SNPdEAk/s640/DSC_1558.jpg" width="426" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">That attractive building was the garaging for cars.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This sculptural depiction obviously holds significance for the owners. Perhaps twin daughters who love to dance? Or, perhaps Mother and Daughter?</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMDhif1coYgF1pX-HYbAAnWJM5Hs3BUxyItsNZWnPZsqhfuw-5GzkucA9wU7Ya6cnqHW95rt8-_0MCj7cvr_tFYx5wbVlGO8EXtm5smNXJbVAY5ZrPLTNodoshnzVPR4CLTOLlhVh3J7c/s1600/DSC_1571.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMDhif1coYgF1pX-HYbAAnWJM5Hs3BUxyItsNZWnPZsqhfuw-5GzkucA9wU7Ya6cnqHW95rt8-_0MCj7cvr_tFYx5wbVlGO8EXtm5smNXJbVAY5ZrPLTNodoshnzVPR4CLTOLlhVh3J7c/s640/DSC_1571.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Formal garden on this side of the white washed boundary wall. Sprawling vines beyond.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A closer look at the dancing girls framed by the fence behind.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A wide-angled shot of the Manor House side entrance.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">...and here we view it from the front. Regular readers of Driftwood Ramblings will by now easily be able to identify this architectural style as Cape Dutch.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Look at the striking contrast of the bright, white-washed walls, snow white Iceberg roses and the rich green of the lawn and trees, set against the blue-grey backdrop of the imposing mountain. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I kept thinking of how our dogs would have loved to run about and play on these expansive, level lawns. Just as we were ready to leave, the lady of the manor exited the house at the rear with three Great Danes and two smaller dogs. She called out to us that they were "going stir-crazy" with having been locked up in the house all day (obviously, due to the open garden day). Those dogs literally shot out of the house and were so excited. They, with their owner, disappeared into the vineyards in the blink of an eye, to enjoy their carefree romp. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The front door of Cape Dutch homes is traditionally a stable door. The upper half of this door was open and beyond it was a magnificent floral arrangement highlighted by a huge, ornate French chandelier. I saw others marching up boldly to take a photograph of the interior from the open doorway, but I did not feel comfortable doing this. There is a fine line between being an appreciative visitor and overstepping the boundary to become annoyingly intrusive. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The statuesque heads of Foxgloves lend themselves to these sizeable gardens.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I have a permanent love-affair with blue flowers. Aren't these absolutely glorious?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This is the back of the house, but it was as beautiful, if not more so, than everywhere else. There were a couple of seating areas, each one quite charming!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">These beautiful aged walls embellished with ancient mosses and lichens divided the back garden into various sections. The swimming pool was beyond this one, on a raised terrace.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Roses perfumed the air...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Swoon...there's that startling blue again!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">And look at the detail within the bell of each creamy, white Foxglove flower. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Gnarled old trees and solid old walls will outlive us all. They hold our secrets in perpetuity.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A naive sculptural form, perhaps representing an angel? Or a lone figure standing in silent awe, contemplating the marvellous sights that make up La Brie.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">What a wonderful spot for enjoying those long, summer evenings outdoors! Or al fresco luncheons that go on forever...</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Or, we could move out here, under the Willow trees to catch the cooling breezes and enjoy the mountain vistas, while some amongst us might wish to lie on the cool, green lawn and daydream.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Aah! Here is the third stone sculpture in this unique style that we saw in three of the gardens we visited! I still haven't found out who the artist is!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">These flowers were in a tree we have yet to identify.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Just a pretty view over a section of the vineyards...</span></td></tr>
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That brings us to the end of this visit. I do hope that those of you who managed to stay with me to the end, enjoyed it. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Hi Everybody! It has been quite some time since I last nudged Desiree off her blogging seat.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I thought you might like to know that Bonny, Toby, Coco, Milo, Noodle and I are all doing very well. With the warmer weather, we have been spending some time at the pool. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Continue reading to see all of us having fun in the sun!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Toby and I are the two swimmers. Bonny does not enjoy being in the pool much and the pups are still getting used to the idea. Linda was here this week and spent quite a lot of time playing at the pool with us. She even had her camera on one of the days and took lots of photos of us. It wasn't easy for me to decide which showed us off at our best. I think we're all good-looking all of the time, so the choice comes down to Good-Better-Best. I'll leave you to decide for yourselves...</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Bonny was finding the sun a bit bright and had one eye half closed.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Toby is actually an otter. He just looks like a German Shepherd! Water really is his natural element.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Coco is our Glamour Girl. She loves water, but is not yet too sure about the swimming pool and likes to watch from the sidelines. I also think she's trying to keep that fair complexion, blemish free. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Milo is our Eager Beaver. He's always just so happy and ready for a game that's why he keeps his white socks looking so clean and smart all the time.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Noodle is rapidly becoming a Glamour Girl in her own right. She thinks that since she's the youngest, she deserves extra cuddles.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Bonny is 10 years old. Her passion in life is and always has been a tennis ball. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Toby is loved by us all. He is growing into such a handsome young man. He is very obedient and super intelligent. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">There's Miss Glamour Girl again. She's very photogenic.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Milo probably has the sweetest nature of us all and that really is saying something, since each of us is incredibly sweet natured. He's just so gentle!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">OK, Folks! That's it from us for today. I'm off to have another swim. Anyone care to join me?</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Desiree said she'll be back with another Garden post as soon as she can find the time to sort through her pictures. I must admit we do keep her pretty busy, but it's just so nice having her around all the time. We never feel lonely! </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">View from the steeply winding driveway up to the manor house at <i>Vue de Ciel</i></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here I am, back again, to proceed with you on our visit to <i>Vue de Ciele</i>, another of the wonderful, private gardens in Franschhoek that were opened to the public for viewing, in order to raise much needed funding for the <i>Fleur de Lis</i> home for the aged.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> We briefly met the owner of this remarkably steep, hillside garden, after we'd </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">inadvertently </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">wandered a little 'off route'...</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> ...</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but were still following one of the many laid out paths and found ourselves at a dead end, at the far end of her very large house.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> We were standing beside her modest, but lovely, shade covered vegetable garden, realising we needed to retrace our steps when Carol Cunningham appeared (and, no, I did not get a picture of the vegetable garden, although I now wish I had!) </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">She'd seen us approaching and came to ask us to please return the way we'd come.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">She was very sweet about it and explained that she was concerned about her prized breeding ducks. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">They live in a specially created haven, a beautiful pond situated off a private patio just ahead of where we'd found ourselves and she didn't want to risk them being frightened by us.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">We aplogised and were just on the point of retracing our steps, when she offered to allow us to follow her quietly into the "off-bounds" area and she'd let us out the front. Naturally, we politely declined, as we had no intention of over-stepping our boundary. She did invite us to take a peek into the ducks' area from the other side of the property, which we did, being very careful not to startle the contented, colourful ducks sunning themselves in their wonderfully secluded eden.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This garden was a riot of colour, planted almost exclusively, but not entirely with indigenous plantings.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> Built on a steep gradient, the terrain is very rocky and exposed to the full force of the elements. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">It was incredible to see what has been achieved in only five years, since the garden was first laid out. Carol explained that it had had its own set of challenges, but that she'd had the invaluable input of her resident Lady Gardener (who lives in a cottage on the farm, within visible distance of the main house). </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Everywhere we turned, there was something to draw the eye in...</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">With an abundance of natural rock and the plentiful use of wonderfully, sculptural pieces of wood...</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">All vying with each other to make the most profound impression...</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This really was a garden begging to be explored and admired...after all, just look at the backdrop it has to compete with! (See the Lady Gardener's cottage in the background, off right?)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The many carefully planned winding paths at our feet tempted us to follow...that would explain how we 'got lost'</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Pockets of the brightest hued annuals stole the show in all the little nooks and crannies, begging for closer inspection!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">But...the piece de resistance was arguably the suspended deck!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Even on a rainy day, its charms were undeniably irresistible...</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">And my camera just couldn't get its fill of all the angles (I took dozens of pictures!)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I guessed this to be a shrine to a loved pet, perhaps? It was constructed beautifully, of marble, as were several other attractively ornate features strategically positioned throughout the garden.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The rim flow pool added to the sense of infinity pervading this breath-taking view point... </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The carved wooden fishes and selection of shells drew one back to earth.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Perched high on the hill, this house looked even more imposing from below!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The entrance to the house is behind, approached by an even steeper section of driveway...this is the only 'level' area of this property and it is here that the plantings are particularly vivid.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The amount of care and planning that has gone into creating this garden in only five years is truly astounding! </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This is not some pampered, sheltered suburban garden. This garden is built on the top of a rocky mountain!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Who would believe it, seeing this picture as an example?</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A beautifully fashioned pathway leads to the main entrance of this lovely home.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Yes, I know, I could not resist a closer look!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Interesting details were everywhere!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The views from every part of this garden are exquisite! No inkling of claustrophobia here!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Believe me, I was as startled to encounter the resident feline as it was to see me! I'd never seen a cat like this up close! It had the bluest eyes I've seen, but I could not capture their intensity. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A marble bird bath nestled amongst rough rock. What a pretty surprise!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I have a new respect for amaryllis...look at them growing out in the African sun (admittedly it was a rainy day)...while I pamper and cosset my one plant in my greenhouse. It never looks as good as these!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This garden uses water wherever possible, to excellent effect!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Another surprise stepping stone, glistening in the rain.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This fountain, in the centre of the large circular entrance driveway succeeded in getting me to photograph it from all conceivable angles. I couldn't choose which was the best, so went eeny meeny miny mo! It always helps!</span></td></tr>
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</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com49tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7626558959674808582.post-73259427738803784322011-11-18T22:45:00.002+02:002012-02-04T18:06:53.607+02:00Klein Champagne [Franschhoek Open Garden 2011]<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The entrance to Klein Champagne Estate, Franschhoek. Vineyards lined with magnificent roses.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Klein Champagne is a privately owned wine estate set in the exquisitely beautiful Franschhoek Valley. Described on our programme as a "park-like garden, with spectacular roses, a large and shaded river frontage, meandering paths and a lily covered lake", this very large garden was an absolute joy to behold.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I wandered about, totally in awe of all the work that would have gone into planning and designing such a large garden. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The only thing that saved me from becoming bright green from head to toe was the knowledge that I not only lack the huge budget necessary to maintain such an enomous undertaking...</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I do not have access to what I am sure must be hoards of fulltime gardeners to assist with the upkeep and beautification of this marvel.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This realisation allowed me to relax fully and simply take it all in.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> Apart from the manor house, there were a number of additional buildings (cottages, guest accommodation, offices) and topnotch stabling for the magnificent horses whose grace and beauty added to the ambiance of this glorious estate. I am not going to gabble on. I will leave you to judge for yourselves...</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once again, we took far more pictures than is feasible for me to upload here. I ended up picking this selection blindly, so not all are necessarily the best choices, but due to time constraints, I am unable to examine each one closely before selecting or discarding. I do hope I have given an idea of the scale and beauty of Klein Champagne with those I have shown here. There is just so much to this garden that it is not possible to do it justice in a blog. I will never forget the experience of being there to see it all in person.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While we truly love our six dogs and remain totally committed to each and every one, I would not advise anyone thinking of expanding their pack to take on six at once, unless you're fortunate enough to live on a really large plot, with plenty of space for them to run and play freely. Otherwise, one dog is good, two dogs are even better, three still do-able, four leaning towards becoming overly ambitious...six, decidedly over ambitious. The amount of work increases enormously...that is if one wishes to continue to live in an orderly, clean house and enjoy a neat and pretty garden.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I know that once the three youngest pups have reached adulthood and begin to be more contented with digging less and bringing all their bits of flotsam and jetsam into the house, life will begin to resume the more peaceful state we knew before. Until then, I have to deal with the daily hurdle of never-ending cleaning, tidying up and playing watchdog so my poor garden which is constantly under siege, is not destroyed further. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To not put too fine a point on it, I have been finding it more and more difficult to keep up with everything. My available time for blogging (both reading and posting) has understandably had to reduce to a few hours a week. Suffice to say, I find I'm even struggling with that. I have considered taking an extended leave of absence. However, my blogging time is precious to me and so I will only do that as a last resort. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By way of something slightly different, what follows is a selection of random pictures taken on our scheduled day-trips over the last two months. It is thanks to our daughter that we are able to enjoy these occasional breaks. She comes home to puppy-sit, giving us peace of mind to escape for a while.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Even fallen trees have a stark beauty irresistible to our cameras. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This magnificent, fallen, charred tree trunk begged to be housed in my garden. The fact that it was far more than twice the length of our car made it a pipe-dream. Instead, it demanded to be photographed!</span></td></tr>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My next post will be of the magnificent farm garden, Klein Champagne, on the outskirts of Franschhoek and the fourth of the ten open gardens I promised to show you. Watch this space, but not too intently.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com41tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7626558959674808582.post-37139311481719325352011-11-06T20:34:00.002+02:002012-02-04T18:09:02.156+02:00Fay Bentley's Garden [Franschhoek Open Garden 2011]<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Hello. I'm one of the seven Persians whose function it is to add beauty and grace to Fay's garden.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #616161; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 17px;">Although Fay's was the smallest of the gardens on show, it demanded the same level of attention and appreciation as did the largest! </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #616161; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 17px;">To say that this garden has been created with love is, I believe, an apt testimony to what Fay has achieved so superbly on a plot that was little more than a barren wasteland when she bought her older, Franschhoek home 8 years ago. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #616161; line-height: 17px;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Fay has a gardener to help her once a week, otherwise she does it all herself. For anyone out there who has assumed Fay must be a young woman, she is well over 50 and probably in her 60s, although she wears as well as her garden. A tiny person, she resembled one of her glorious flowers in her pretty bright outfit and large floral hat.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Thank you, Fay Bentley, for inviting us to view your gracious garden!</span></td></tr>
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</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com42tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7626558959674808582.post-61682183882618723542011-11-04T20:23:00.001+02:002012-02-04T18:09:16.468+02:00Montpellier [Franschhoek Open Gardens 2011]<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here I am, back at my computer after another very busy week, to walk you around the gardens at Montpellier. This was the last of the ten gardens we visited, but I have opted to feature it second, since it is so very different in style and setting from the first garden I shared, namely La Rive.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Montpellier is built on three levels. This is the lowest level.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This garden of this Italian style home has been hewn out of the rocky mountain slope on which it is sited. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Not only are the owners blessed with the most gorgeous views from their lofty perch...</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">...they have an abundance of bird life (and visits from baboons, buck, rock rabbits and even leopard sightings).</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Whereas La Rive is cossetted in the snug heart of Franschhoek, Montpellier arises in the high mountains enveloping the valley beneath. Wouldn't YOU be tempted by this?</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The challenges faced with the establishment of such an elevated and rocky terrain would be too costly and daunting to all but the bravest...</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">...but the rewards are certainly worth the expense and effort... </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">...when the result is a garden as ruggedly handsome as this. Notice the stone sculpture by the same artist that crafted the one in the secret garden at La Rive. You'll see two further views of this particular sculpture if you pay attention while you're wandering around the garden, when I let you off your leash in just a moment. Oh, sorry! I'm so accustomed to thinking in terms of our six dogs, I sometimes forget I need to be a people-person, too!</span></td></tr>
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will give you some peace and quiet now, to wander about on your own. I am sure you'd prefer that to have me yapping in your ear! You will notice several resting spots, so please feel free to relax and enjoy the splendid views. </span><br />
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We have returned home, thoroughly buoyed and exuberant, after a wonderful weekend spent visiting each of <i>ten</i> exquisite private gardens, generously made available for public viewing by their respective owners during this season's Franschhoek Open Gardens 2011 extravaganza. All funds generated by this worthy cause have been donated by the Lions Club of Franschhoek to the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Fleur de Lis </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">old age home in the village.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We left home at midday on Friday, full of anticipation for what we were soon to experience. We had wisely booked two nights' accommodation, so that we could spend </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>two full days </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">visiting the gardens, at five per day. On our last day, we had the additional, spontaneous invitation to view garden designer Henk Scholtz's private garden, but more on that exciting, impromptu event later.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">First up, may I present<i> La Rive</i>, a truly magnificent English Country style garden set in the heart of the village. By suburban standards, this is a very large garden and one that makes my own seem little larger than a pocket handkerchief! I overheard someone say, "six full-time gardeners are employed to maintain it"...and I can well believe that! This garden did its best to reduce me to tears at one point! It really is THAT beautiful! </span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the garden that stole my heart when we last visited Franschhoek. We had espied some of its hidden charm whilst walking amongst the old gravestones, set in the historic cemetery that is situated alongside on the opposite bank of the picturesque river which courses gently through the village. I had seen a lovely, secluded stone bench perfectly framed beneath the deep, enveloping shade of a giant oak tree on the opposite bank. I'd photographed it and then, being the quizzy soul I am, craned my already stretched-to-maximum neck even further to steal a glimpse of what appeared to me to be the perfect filmset for a remake of 'The Secret Garden'. Imagine my delight when we learnt a short while afterwards that this was to be one of the Open Gardens we'd be able to visit.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>La Rive</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">was our inspiration for attending the Franschhoek Open Gardens weekend and the first garden we elected to visit! </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The tempting pathway leading to the bench is formed by lengths of old railway sleepers, generously interplanted with fragrant ground covers and clumps of alyssum and pansies in full bloom. A sight too glorious for words!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The wide, double gate leading to the secret garden is a work of absolute beauty in and of itself. I played around there for ages, capturing it from all angles. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">My patience finally paid off and I had the bench all to myself for a little while. Did I sit? No, I spent the time photographing it from different angles, both from the front and from behind. It is a double bench, with a wide seat on both sides and was equipped with two, well-padded, full-length cushions to ensure a comfortable rest. No wonder those two "oldies" hogged the spot for far longer than was polite! My husband's theory is that they make this an annual event...trying to see how many pictures they can appear in :)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Large, planted pots are used extensively in the garden beds at <i>La Rive. </i>We have returned home determined to incorporate several more in our own garden! </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The bench viewed from the riverside. In addition to the large Oak tree beneath which it rests, are several tall tree ferns which soften the scene in the most pleasing way. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Looking back towards the entrance to the secret garden from the pathway leading to the bench. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">For now, it has been my intention to give you an overall view of the layout and style of <i>La Rive. </i>Sadly,<i> </i>I have only been able to give you a glimpse. Should anyone wish to see more, I shall be happy to prepare an additional post once I have completed my objective of producing ten posts of the ten open, private gardens we saw this past weekend. I also want to do an additional post, in which I unveil the garden we were invited to see, privately. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A bright, sunshiny day. Perfect weather to spend a couple of hours quietly absorbing all the loveliness on offer at <a href="http://www.thegardenvillage.co.za/">Van Den Berg Garden Village</a> outside Stellenbosch.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After having received a number of requests to walk you through the Orchid Greenhouse at the marvellous Van Den Berg Garden Village nursery we visited in my last post, I bid you 'WELCOME', as we step inside.</span><br />
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">A while ago, my trusty camera and I spent a couple of hours viewing a rather eclectic (and new to me) nursery, up close and personal.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> The two of us had a wonderful time, unable to decide what to photograph and returned home with well over 300 pictures. This window frame has been propped into a gap in a hedge...a clever idea, I thought!</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I've been wanting to upload a post featuring this rather delightfully quirky place, but have stymied myself, not knowing which of the many pictures I have to choose from, to share!</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I really do want to show you as many as possible in order to give you a feel for this lovely nursery, but I don't want to risk overwhelming you!</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I know my lengthy posts probably have that effect! Anyway, those of you who dislike long, drawn out posts packed full to the brim with far too many pictures, now's your cue to bow out gracefully.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Any hangers on who are prepared to test the waters, as it were, are welcome to leave at any time you find things becoming tedious.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">If anyone stays to the bitter end, I might just have to think of a way to reward you. Anyone have an old, tin trunk? Turn it into a water garden!</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">There has been no real method to what I've selected for uploading here...once again, I've simply applied my trusty technique of eeny-meeny-miney-mo!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So, as you may have noticed, there's no logic or order to the sequence...aren't these "soccerball heads" a novel idea?</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nevertheless, I think that it works with this particular nursery...</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Because, although it has been laid out fairly methodically, so much grabs ones attention, simultaneously...</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">So that ones eyes (and companion camera) are quite literally gazing and pointing in several directions at once!</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hey! Where have you gone? Ah! Admiring the rusty wirework, I see... </span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Oh, do look over here, quickly! A beautiful Yellow-breasted Weaver is eyeing this huge Staghorn fern...I wonder if it is considering its crown a good nesting spot?</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">A dried pomegranate shell, used as a planter? This you've got to see...</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">But not before I show you what I've found right here...come and have a look! I know Alison will be ever so excited!</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">What an unusual place for this little hen to have elected to lay her eggs. Bet if I hadn't pointed her out to you, you'd have missed her completely!</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wonder who this old gent is, seated in amongst the Azalea and Orchid display over here?</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">No, I don't think this African carving will easily fit into your hand luggage!</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here's a novel idea for putting an old mirror to use in the garden...turn it into a water feature!</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Everywhere we turn, something catches the eye. I love the extensive use of driftwood hitched up amongst the rafters. This bit is home to a witch, just in time for Halloween! We don't celebrate it here, but I just had to add this for my Northern Hemisphere readers, especially Mona!</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here's a gardening assistant with a difference! I wonder if she'd help Friko out of her compost-turning plight this year?</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">This blog would not be worthy of its name if we didn't focus on gnarled and knotty pieces of driftwood and roots, bleached and aged by the sun...isn't this a beauty?</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ah, I see you've rushed outdoors to gaze at the succulents, Diane.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Is she singing in ecstasy, or snoring loudly, I wonder? I bet Melynda would have a good take on this!</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">There is a whole Greenhouse dedicated to this nursery's extensive Orchid collection...if you beg hard enough, I'll take you inside in a subsequent post.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Right now, we'll stick with enjoying the sunshine for those folk who live in the UK and those who live in Canada, since they are already getting quite chilly with the rapid approach of winter.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">This bust is huge and carved from stone, so don't even think about trying to get it into your suitcase!</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">These Bonsai trees would also be far too tricky to transport! Orchid is so lucky, because she lives in the Land of Genuine Bonsai!</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here's a lovely, cool, quiet spot to gather your thoughts. Any takers? Dee?</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">This succulent covers itself in the most delicate fairy-like sprays of softly hued pink flowers at this time of year. </span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">They are in stark contrast to the thick, thorny, fleshy leaves of the Aloes.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Speaking of thorns, have you seen the size of these on the Acacia overhead? The birds absolutely love these trees, as I can't imagine what foe wishes to impale themselves on these impressive needles!</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">In these times of waterwise gardening, succulents are all the rage. I thought we'd find you here, Tom! Diane was wanting to buy you a gift at another succulent display way back over there!</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here's another bench to rest those aching feet. I'm always drawn to benches. I just have to try them all out for size and comfort. Rita and Sandie, you might want to rest up a bit?</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">This one is pretty, but definitely needs a nice puffy cushion! Jenny, you're so good at sewing, perhaps you'd like to knock one together, quickly?</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">A pretty display of mixed plants. The Strelitzia (Bird of Paradise) are indigenous to South Africa. I think they are quite magnificent!</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">If I am not mistaken, these are Cabbage trees. I wonder why, since they don't look like cabbages to me.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Another bench tucked away in this hidden corner of the nursery. I know Pam won't be needing it...I see she's walking briskly around in those shoes of hers, with Tucker straining at his leash.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">There are so many bowls and vessels containing water carefully tucked in amongst the plants throughout this nursery...the birds clearly feel very much at home and welcome, here!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It pleases me no end, knowing so many of you have been enjoying this series on Franschhoek. I thought I'd give you a change of scene this time around and show you inside one of the gift shops, in case any of you feel the impulse to buy a souvenir before we go for lunch.</span></span><br />
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The pretty rose gardens and fountain outside the Franschhoek City Hall which fronts on to the many quaint shops lining the main road through the village centre.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The roses were very healthy and covered in buds. When we visit again at the end of October to view the Open Gardens, these many rose bushes will be covered in blooms.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The shops are arranged in little courtyards up and down the length and breadth of the main road. This is one such courtyard.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Little cobbled alleyways between the shops are attractively designed and maintained, in keeping with the general charm of the village.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I thought this shop would hold some appeal for my international readers who may not get to see African artefacts very often...</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">These wooden carvings are sourced all over Africa...</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tourists obviously go for items such as these in a big way, since they feature several of the wild animals endemic to this continent.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The beadwork on display is typical of Africa. I was personally rather drawn to these quirky clay pots decorated with touches of gold paint, which completed the African designs rather well. </span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">These little warthogs were ever so cute!</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">More pottery and lots of jewellery!</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">So many little displays throughout the shop...</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">One needed to take care not to bump into anything!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I hope all this shopping has </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">worked up a hearty appetite for lunch? Oh, good, because we're going to La Petite Dauphine, a beautiful, boutique wine farm. We'll be having lunch at their wonderful restaurant, Cafe Bob Bon. Being such a perfect day, we'll opt to sit outdoors. They have plenty of seating on the patio out front, in addition to a charming courtyard at the back.</span></span><br />
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">When we arrived, there were several guests already enjoying lunch on the patio out front, so we sat in the courtyard at the back and had it all to ourselves (almost!)</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The building to the left is the indoor dining area of Cafe Bon Bon.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">You will recognise the ladder and potted lavender to the right of the doorway as the scene with which I "tempted" you in my last post.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let's take a peek inside The Studio before we make our way out to the courtyard behind to enjoy our al fresco meal.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The wine tasting room is directly ahead and to the back of the dining area of The Studio</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">All of the paintings and several of the decor items in this dining area are for sale. Here, we are standing in the dining area looking back out towards the entrance.</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The courtyard where we had lunch is directly ahead, beyond the open doorway.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">What's that on the carpet? A jolly good imitation of a rooster?</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Oh, my goodness, no! It's the genuine article!</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Oh, hi! Hendrik's the name...pleased to bid you welcome!</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">A comfortable seating area in the dining room.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">One of the lovely original artworks for sale.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Closer look at one of the tableaux in this lovely dining room.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">A closer look at another of the paintings. My picture does not do justice to the artist at all! </span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Smiling Man is reflected in the mirror. I'd asked him to use his camera to photograph the interior of The Studio.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Another eye-catching corner.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">OK, enough griping about being so hungry! Here we are...in the Courtyard. Please do seat yourselves.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you don't mind, I'm going to continue taking pictures while we wait for our first order to arrive...I do love this wooden carving!</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">A pretty spot beneath a window overlooking the courtyard invites one to take a seat...</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">And look who's come to join us for lunch beneath the huge shady tree where we are comfortably seated...it's Hendrik, the resident rooster, again! I did mention we were only "almost alone!"</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Isn't he beautiful? </span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Oh, here's my salad first course. It looks so fresh and tasted even better! I completely forgot to photograph the rest of the meal, as I was mesmerised by the beauty of my surroundings and allowed myself to succumb entirely to the moment, savouring each delicious mouthful and each sip of chilled wine. The whole experience was very restful and absolutely repeatable!</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Walking back to the car a couple of hours later, we enjoyed a final look around the well-maintained yard...</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">One of the decorative features outdoors...</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">A row of wine barrels marks the boundary wall...</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Such a pretty view beyond the boundary wall!</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thank you for visiting. Please do call again!</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> We certainly intend to, thank you, Hendrik!</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com31