GARDEN VISITS

[Maggi Young]

I wonder why.

Eric

Me too..... might it be the lack of text and  names for the pix/plants? The pages are getting quite a lot of visitors, but they're not clicking on the pix to enlarge them 

[Lesley Cox]

Put a giraffe in there.

[ranunculus]

Me too..... might it be the lack of text and  names for the pix/plants?

It's a minefield trying to name plants without official labels being available ... I can't imagine that is the sum of the problem?  Perhaps the images are too obvious without having to open them or they aren't 'alpine' enough ... I noticed the same effect with some images I posted from Florida ... not too surprising, I suppose, on a site devoted to rock and alpine gardening!   

Lesley, I had ordered a giraffe from Amazon, but they are directing me towards the Zambezi ...!   

[Paddy Tobin]

Cliff,

If I may make a comment on the lack of viewers for the photographs. You post exactly the same type of photograph which I have in the camera on return from a garden visit. At some stage, Mary will ask to see the photographs I took at the garden; I'll put them up on the computer and she will complain that they don't show the garden at all just the flowers in the garden. I think it is a weakness of a person with a keen interest in plants to see the plants but not the garden and direct the lens at the individual plants rather than at the general scene, the general layout of the garden, the overall view. This is what she tells me anyhow and I couldn't possibly disagree.

Paddy

[ranunculus]

A very interesting theory, Paddy ... of course I wouldn't know about this as Sue doesn't want to look at the pictures at all!   
I do tend to concentrate on individual plants for my own pleasure (much as one does in the wild), but I hope I also keep my eyes open for general, scenic, landscape and fun options where appropriate.  I think a camera is simply an extension of one's own field of vision - some see the big picture, some the minutiae, some the quirky ... and some just a little bit blurred.   

[Ragged Robin]

Cliff, when I saw it was you on a Garden visit I clicked on the thread immediately  Your photos as always are truly lovely and although I did not click on them all there were several I had to and these were for the colours and composition more than the actual flower itself...however, I do agree that words can draw a Viewer in to share the experience as well and I thought that you might have gleaned some amusing ones from your grandson as he was obviously feeling left out 

[ranunculus]

Robin ... he has already complained to his parents ... "No toys in gwandad's garden ... lots pots" and; "No pway ball at gwandads - he fwikened." 

Not yet three years old ... 

[Ragged Robin]

Robin ... he has already complained to his parents ... "No toys in gwandad's garden ... lots pots" and; "No pway ball at gwandads - he fwikened." 

Not yet three years old ... 

Love the lingo 

[ichristie]

Hi Cliff, I really enjoy your pictures but dare I suggest that we should all be very busy working in our gardens, please keep posting the pictures, cheersIan the Christie kind.

[Martinr]

Cliff, my excuse is, as usual, not enough spare time to look through all the pictures in detail. I tend to enlarge a few which, curiously, tend to be the ones I have in the garden. Probably the competitor in me saying are they better than mine. What did strike me though were some curious relative timing things. My Gunnera is well ahead of the one you showed, Darmera peltata about the same but their Rodgersia aesculifolia (the chances of that spelling being correct are slim) is weeks ahead of mine!

Anyway, I must get back to tonight's priority jobs and, sadly, the forum isn't on the list

cheers

Martin

[Joakim B]

Cliff
I enjoyed the photos and when I saw that You commented on the lack of viewers I realized that I had not clicked them. When there is photos of plants sometime there is not much need to enlarge them if one just want to see the garden. In more of overview pics it might be need to enlarge it to see it but for many plant photos there is not always a need to enlarge, especially if the photos are good.
Maybe a slight miss not to enlarge them but I enjoyed this trip very much so take it as a complement that the photos does not need to be enlarged to be enjoyable. Sometimes the tumbnails are so strange that one need to enlarge to view and that is taking long time especially if there is a lot of them.

Kind regards
Joakim

[ranunculus]

Another brief escape from the Turkey postings ...

And a return visit to Vicarage Gardens in Manchester.  It was a glorious day in the North-West of England today and my itchy camera finger needed scratching, so I spent an hour at these lovely gardens and shot exactly 110 shots ... you will get to see 85 of them if my posting eyes can remain open long enough.
The paragraph below accompanied my first posting from the gardens way back in May 2008 - subsequent visits are also in this thread.

Reasonably quiet on the forum this evening so I will take the opportunity to post a series of images captured today (24th May 2008) at a garden in Carrington, Manchester.  The Vicarage garden (and small garden centre) is under threat of closure due to the Charity Commission threatening to withdraw it's charitable status (rules have been changed quite recently) and this beautiful resource for the disabled, for gardeners and for nature lovers in the Manchester area is now under serious threat.  The 5 acre site is run by a Christian Community and they maintain a very beautiful garden that is an oasis of peace and quiet in an otherwise industrialised and urbanised sprawl.  The garden is free to visit and highly reommended if you happen to be in the area.
As I only spent an hour or so in the gardens this sunny (but incredibly windy) morning I am unable to supply names for the plants but, as many are extremely common, then you will possibly not require them?

The paragraph could still apply in every respect apart from the date.

[ranunculus]

Next batch ...

[ranunculus]

Final batch for this evening ... rest to follow tomorrow.

[Paul T]

Lovely, Cliff.  So VERY different to here at the moment.    Sunshine looks nice..... this week we haven't seen much of it here, just lots of fog until mid afternoon.  Seeing your sunshine makes me feel a bit warmer, so thanks very much for that as well.