tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810916424535818779.post3542137802549246237..comments2024-03-22T07:28:43.820+00:00Comments on The wind and the wellies: On motherhood and gardening and botanical obsessions.Fay McKenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14573998704716650377noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810916424535818779.post-79229867437931019622012-03-18T17:09:28.864+00:002012-03-18T17:09:28.864+00:00Hi there - lovely to see you! I love the genetic b...Hi there - lovely to see you! I love the genetic bean bag thing! They are indeed mutants but quite pleasant never the less. I'm no so much worried - I just would have liked to have taken more pictures of them to blackmail them when they begin to bring dates home. :)<br /><br />Or something like that! Cheers for the comment!Fay McKenziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14573998704716650377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810916424535818779.post-68299477193083095222012-03-18T17:07:31.363+00:002012-03-18T17:07:31.363+00:00Oh looking over to your patch and having a peek in...Oh looking over to your patch and having a peek in a bit.<br /><br />Helebores I love them - the only way I've ever seen them displayed properly is in a bowl of water as floating flowers. Their complexity is awesome - but they so totally suck at showing it. Who wants to have to cut them - or lie down on the ground gazing upwards just to appreciate them?<br /><br />xxFay McKenziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14573998704716650377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810916424535818779.post-85320996108052559632012-03-18T17:05:43.989+00:002012-03-18T17:05:43.989+00:00Oh dear, poor Unst - its clearly smarted you. Minu...Oh dear, poor Unst - its clearly smarted you. Minus three plus wind chill sounds about right! <br /><br />Saxifrages are cunning beasts it was probably hiding from you.<br /><br />My two are thinking of renewables or music or medicine. Not flowers.<br /><br />I can still drag them to the gardens too - glad to know the bleating and moaning will lessen with age!<br /><br />I think Scotland could be put under a biodome - better weather - nae wind, nae midges - who's with me? Perhaps we'll get lottery funding!??Fay McKenziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14573998704716650377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810916424535818779.post-77634833034241946512012-03-18T17:03:13.220+00:002012-03-18T17:03:13.220+00:00Aye Loon - pare (?) wee bairns. (reverting to scot...Aye Loon - pare (?) wee bairns. (reverting to scots here) in Orkney I'd say 'pare peedie-breeks' - I love the Orcadian for children 'small trousered folk'.<br /><br />Hellebores are gorgeous aren't they - I dinnae ken why they insist on you looking at them when lying on the ground to see their beauty! Daft gonks of plants if you ask me.<br /><br />Nice to see you sir - as always.Fay McKenziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14573998704716650377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810916424535818779.post-56740990316076536492012-03-13T14:07:04.338+00:002012-03-13T14:07:04.338+00:00Poor hard done by kids, (not!) Thoroughly enjoyed ...Poor hard done by kids, (not!) Thoroughly enjoyed your stroll through the years and great pictures, beautiful Hellebore.Alistairhttp://www.aberdeengardening.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810916424535818779.post-35436228581575499932012-03-09T00:52:04.706+00:002012-03-09T00:52:04.706+00:00Hiya Fay,
I have a clear memory of Unst. The guest...Hiya Fay,<br />I have a clear memory of Unst. The guest house lady sent me out to look for some rare saxifrage, because tea wasn't ready. It was about minus 3 plus wind chill, and my eyes watered so hard I never found the saxifrage...<br />Neither of my two have ever wanted to do gardening or botany - but that's just life for you. Still, they complain less when they are dragged around a garden these days than they used to.kininviehttp://gardeningattheedge.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810916424535818779.post-33382180271480733412012-03-05T21:01:24.472+00:002012-03-05T21:01:24.472+00:00Ahhh...a lovely post! I love your Helebore picture...Ahhh...a lovely post! I love your Helebore picture in particular - gorgeous flowers aren't they! I'll have to blog some more of the Eden project ones from our visits, just for you!<br /><br />R xxRobynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04175531371914205163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810916424535818779.post-57967997155780578462012-03-05T18:33:59.465+00:002012-03-05T18:33:59.465+00:00South African yes. Yours is a king protea, looking...South African yes. Yours is a king protea, looking a little frayed at the edges. And surrounded by assorted fynbos relatives.Diana Studerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12286066768376135880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810916424535818779.post-9219704833906013582012-03-05T17:20:47.040+00:002012-03-05T17:20:47.040+00:00When the bairn making genetic bean bag gets shaken...When the bairn making genetic bean bag gets shaken chances are that the offspring might look like you but they'll all have the mutation that means they'll probably hate what you love doing best. Sounds like you're doing a pretty good job so why worry.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810916424535818779.post-73093465502730169952012-03-05T13:42:09.437+00:002012-03-05T13:42:09.437+00:00Thank you my dear. Both are rather splendidThank you my dear. Both are rather splendidFay McKenziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14573998704716650377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810916424535818779.post-89796690737914622952012-03-05T09:40:39.111+00:002012-03-05T09:40:39.111+00:00Lovely pictures, both flowers and kidlets :)Lovely pictures, both flowers and kidlets :)dreamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15569512066931951883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810916424535818779.post-71682578595515922182012-03-05T08:37:11.799+00:002012-03-05T08:37:11.799+00:00I think I might have done them a misservice Jenni ...I think I might have done them a misservice Jenni - I mean thousands and thousands of photos of flowers and a handful of them. Maybe I can send out an appeal to my chums - surely some of them thought the children cute enough to take a photo of? Mabye?<br /><br />The 'soon to be cellist' was 3 in the photo - adorable - she'd just started nursery in Edinburgh at Stockbridge and had been at the Ingliston exhibition (the site in the picture) all day without a peep - she's a star. I showed her he picture and she said .......<br /><br />'Oh that's your wierd tin garden with all those funny crinkly plants'<br /><br />At least she remembered it.Fay McKenziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14573998704716650377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810916424535818779.post-34448645249030900292012-03-05T08:34:01.540+00:002012-03-05T08:34:01.540+00:00Thank you Carole! I'm off to have a peek now -...Thank you Carole! I'm off to have a peek now - how kind you are!Fay McKenziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14573998704716650377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810916424535818779.post-3941515002215332392012-03-05T08:33:36.459+00:002012-03-05T08:33:36.459+00:00Grannie Annie was one of the most fantastic folk I...Grannie Annie was one of the most fantastic folk I've ever had the fortune to be in the company of. The making the tea on the BBQ to save time and washing up is a stroke of genius. And, to subtly engineer her daughter as a chef - well that's what you call very pro-active parenting!<br /><br />Mines have reached 15 and 17 - which is a miracle but we're all very happy to know each other! They do however roll their eyes now at the mere mention of a latin name.........Fay McKenziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14573998704716650377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810916424535818779.post-16895104193196064232012-03-05T08:31:31.736+00:002012-03-05T08:31:31.736+00:00Oh Janet - I love Shetland - my point was that we ...Oh Janet - I love Shetland - my point was that we were so lucky to go there not once but at least half a dozen times for work. I'd never imagined I could have ever have got there (you don't just walk passed it, as you know). Looking and collecting plants in the far reaches of the UK is very humbling. And, so beautiful you're right - I'd bite someones arm off for a trip to Shetland........I keep telling Mr F we need to go - I took the kids plant collecting on one trip, not him!<br /><br />Protea nursery in New Zealand - how gorgeous - they're South African aren't they (the Protea's not the New Zealanders....).<br /><br />Unst is a very special place, Keen of Hammar, the serpentine, the most remote woodland in the UK and of course Sonny Priest and his micro brewery does a fine bottle of Bere Beer too!<br /><br />The bairns, well looks can be deceiving - they 'did' look adorable - now they're all gangly, teenagerish and tall. Bonnie still, but I'd not trust them together - they'd plot some kind of mischeif.Fay McKenziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14573998704716650377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810916424535818779.post-49226485769524758252012-03-05T08:12:56.685+00:002012-03-05T08:12:56.685+00:00You do a marvellous job of both gardening AND moth...You do a marvellous job of both gardening AND motherhood - love that picture of your cellist in a grump :) xxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810916424535818779.post-76893634195344011222012-03-05T06:03:38.378+00:002012-03-05T06:03:38.378+00:00Grannies Annie sound like my sort of girl! People...Grannies Annie sound like my sort of girl! People take far too many pictures of their children, it only panders to their kids vanity!!!!!! Sounds like you have done a pretty good job with yours xFranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08117681021989984923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810916424535818779.post-91926669274298907462012-03-05T05:18:21.961+00:002012-03-05T05:18:21.961+00:00We visited a proteus nursery in New Zealand. What ...We visited a proteus nursery in New Zealand. What extraordinary plants. I think your bairns look adorable or is that a front?<br />As to Shetland...what's wrong with Unst? Only last week A friend of mine turned down the opportunity to spend a few days there! Big mistake, I told her, you don't know what you're missing..Janethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06999513105724635810noreply@blogger.com