We walked into town yesterday morning past the above photoed lane. The lady of the house on the left has cultivated the areas outside her garden walls and made very pretty gardens of them.
The High Street, and indeed most of the Town centre has hanging baskets around the whole area. You'd think these would be provided by the Town Council, but they are in fact supplied, watered , and maintained by our local Chamber of Commerce (i.e. an association of business men).
Above - more baskets hanging this time from the first jetty of our Guildhall.
After we'd had coffee in Saint Mary's, Hilary asked me to step into her garden (she lives near the Church) to look at her peach tree. She put it in about two years ago against the south facing wall of her walled garden. It is now fruiting well (despite the weird summer we've been having), and she presented me with the above peaches from it. I need hardly add that they were delicious.
Good night every one.
8 comments:
I love all the hanging planters. Beautiful...the peaches too.
By the way...you have been your usual busy traveling, making sloe gin and taking pictures of beautiful flowers.
Could never get on with hanging baskets but the peach story tempts me to try peaches. ouldn't that be great?
Hello Pat,
Peach brandy would go down well at the WI... if you don't mind competing with the sloe gin!
Hello Pat. Years ago an old uncle of Ann's, a Norfolk fenland farmer, grew an espaliered peach tree against the south facing wall of his stable yard. He usually removed all but the best twenty or so peaches, which he left to ripen I can't remember the name of the peach, but it was white fleshed, and the best peach I ever tasted. Well if Hilary can produce peaches here in Suffolk, and William could produce them in North West Norfolk, then I'm sure you could produce them in the sunny South West. Worth a try anyway.
Warm regards to you both, Mike and Ann.
Crowbard - if Pat's peaches turn out as well as William Norman's did, then I personally wouldn't waste them on making peach brandy.
Peaches are my favorite fruit!
I would think, Nea, that your great uncle William Norman's home grown peaches had something to do with that ?
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