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Grandad's Garden


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Cato:

OK so you Aunties are all plant mad and weird, so Mum and me have decided to tell you about Grandad's garden first, on account of it being boring and I want it out of the way so we can talk about the interesting sniffy stuff later.

So Mum took lots of photos and these are the best ones, when it was sunny and stuff.  There was a big storm one night, so the light was a bit grey sometimes.  

This is the view from my Hunting Spot.

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 I sat inside, in the warm, looking out of the patio doors.  

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There were pigeons and doves and sparrows and thrushes and blackbirds and robins and bluetits and crows and jackdaws and all the birds in the world.  Tara barked at them sometimes, but I just plotted my Hunting tacticals and kept an eye out for the fox.

We never actually saw the fox.  But he is very sniffy, and he came and trespassed on my garden every night!  I widdled on everything, every day, but he still came back.  Isn't that rude!

Tara was Tara, so she only really wanted to explore the garden with Mum or Grandad.  But I wanted to explore it all the time.  Hunting Trips.  So I know my way around much better than Tara.  I can run rings round her.  I can see her guarding the steps to the house, and run off around the side and up the slope and run in past her from the side.  Haha!  She was a bit miffed.  But it is only because of my Patrols.  If she bothered to patrol she would know the Game Paths and the Hunting Trails too, wouldn't she?  I helped Grandad do gardening stuff too.  And visited the Compost Heap (sniffy!) and found where the rabbits get in.  I love Grandad's garden.

These are the boring flower pics Mum took:

Big fat Camellia buds

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snowdrops and a cloche.  Grandad is big on cloches.

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irises

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sprouty green on red stuff

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little blue things

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more snow drops

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Granddad's dragon

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Tiddly little daffodils

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black grass and snow drops and the yellow snake (hosepipe)

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grape hyacinth

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cyclamen

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me sniffifying near the clematis

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Sophie's Haven

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Thank You for the tour of Granddads Garden...........he has a nice selection of spring blooms popping thru. What a nice few to look at from the house where you can enjoy the day to day change. I always love looking at other peoples gardens and Granddads must look amazing at its peak. I enjoyed the tour very much.

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I wuv those widdle bitty cyclamen the best.

Interesting to see the Camellias just popping open.  I have a red one and a pink one - both are nearly at the end of their bloom.  California weather this year, very little frost, history making rain and a warm February.

We think you must visit Grandpa's garden every 2 weeks now thru December.     And share

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Just realised you saved my bacon Cato and Tara....I have this really old picture and there is this big tree with no leaves that just can't be saved...wondered where am I going to find that big of a tree from with no leaves at?....And here you have just given me the sweetest thing without knowing...Your first picture from grandpa's garden ...there she is tall, big and no leaves in the back...So happy you went to granddads and mom took that picture

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Summerangel

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Grandads garden is lovely.... I especially love the dragon, cos I love reptiles... hehe... 

Your grandad has some very pretty plants too 

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Missysmom

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Love love love Grandpas garden, I could look at it all day! Cato I'm so glad you stayed on patrol, you never know who could be lurking trying to destroy his gorgeous garden, and you saved it! :D I too love grandpas dragon, he's awesome!

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Cato:  yes, patrols are importanter than Tara realises.  But then she is a girl.

- and we haven't even shown you Grandad's front garden yet.  Mum hasn't taken any pics of it yet, cos we (tara and me) aren't allowed out there unless we have Mum or Dad on a lead.  Something to do with the road.  I said that we had more sense than to go all the way out there when the garden is so much sniffier, but then I remembered how Silly Tara is, and realised that Mum and Dad are probably right about her.  Mum says we will take front garden pics next time.

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