What a treat it was to visit Bryan & Barbara Lloyd’s garden again. Many of us will remember visiting the garden in 2016. On returning, none of us could be disappointed! The evening was rather menacing with heavy showers and foreboding darkness; mixed with transient blue sky and sunlight. A special thanks to all at Briscoe Hill for their hospitality, for sharing the garden, their knowledge and experience.
Here is our visit in photos ...
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| May 2017 Annual Plant Fayre, Wetheral |
It was with great sadness, but also with great thanks, that many of us from VGC attended Denise's funeral, yesterday at the Crematorium, Carlisle.
Denise died suddenly but peacefully at home on Wednesday, 21st June, after spending the evening organising a village event for Warwick-on-Eden.
She will be missed by us all; but particularly by her family and dearest friends, of whom there were many.
On entering the service room, many of us will have felt a bittersweet lump as English Country Garden (c.1728) played.
How many kinds of sweet flowers grow
In an English country garden?
We'll tell you now of some that we know
Those we miss you'll surely pardon
Daffodils, heart's ease and phlox
Meadowsweet and lady smocks
Gentian, lupin and tall hollyhocks
Roses, foxgloves, snowdrops, forget-me-nots
In an English country garden
Denise would surely smile if perhaps we especially think of heartsease, Viola Tricolor at this time.
The name pansy comes from Middle French - pensée (“thought / remberance”).
Violas and pansies resemble someone that is in deep thought, with a lowered head.
