GOY Girls out to lunch with friends!

How lovely to be able to have lunch with other Goy members, thank you for sharing the day out.

It was Teds.....must be some in your neck of the woods too!

Sounded a great day for you - nice :):):) lovely pictures too Karen :)

What a lovely venue Karen for a cuppa and lunch, how lovely, love your photos, that birch & eucaluptus are amazing, and those rhodies, to die for!

Great Karen, lovely to meet up with like minded friends. Looks like you had a fantastic time.

Girls just gotta have fun, and what a great venue in wich to have it. Glad you all had a lovely time. :-))

You all look great Karen! What a nice thing to do all meet up and have lunch! The pictures are brill, especially that Eucalytus, what a very huggable trunk it has!

What a good idea to meet up with some of the GOYers near you. It's such a nice way of making new friends with a common interest.

Thats great, looks like you all had a fab time :o)

We certainly did Sueb and weather turned out great.

Thank you again for the cuttings Karen will get them planted in my own garden today and tomorrow the community garden .

We are going to do this again venue to be decided and maybe more garden friends can join us .

It really was a lovely day out with nice garden friends .

I wondered where you were yesterday. It's nice to see pics of Goyers meeting up, been quite a few lately :o))
Mariek you live near me...

You're such a brilliant photographer, Karen, thanks for sharing your lovely day out!

lovely pics .. glad you had a good day with the other g o y ers.....

Yes indeed - it was a real joy to meet up with like minded - if younger(!) gardening friends and our tongues never lay - as you can all imagine!
We will certainly do it again and any other GOYers who live in our neck of the woods would be very welcome.
I have already suggested that Crathes Gardens would make a good venue - but sadly they don't have hot-houses. Still there is plenty scope for the photographers at Crathes....LOL

:)) Looking forward to it already....Donna..you coming?

Me too Karen the more the merrier :)

That is the one that Rachel, Callum and I went and walked round once when I came up on a visit Karen. It is an amazing place all those beautiful trees and of course a lovely little cafe to eat in. Pleased you all enjoyed yourselves. Brought back memories can you remember it Callum skateboarded all the way there and back, Rachel and I just ambled along. lol.

ps. Wish I lived closer then I would join you all. Would be a slower walk around these days though, the legs and back don't like walking now.

That must have been a long time ago now. But I only have a vague memory of it.

Mum, you, Janey, Simbad, Lincslass....could meet up!

Yes it is a long time ago, think Callum was about 10 yrs old, if not younger. Yes we could all meet up at Silica it is just getting myself organised I suppose. Will have to do it.

Pleased that you all had such a good day.
Great pictures.

Thank you Driad. Any Goyers in your neck of the woods?

What fun! A Scottish GoY convention. Too far from here, sadly. :-(

What a great day out for you all. I too have met up with other Goyers and it is a wonderful way of getting to know our members. I think you started it all Spritz with your pictures of Goyers at your Open Day.
What happened to the acer which seems to have grown Rhodo flowers Karen. I have visited these gardens and they are a lovely oasis in the city.

Sorry SG, I don't know what you mean about the acer/rhody!

Under the red rhodo it says My favourite tree - Acer griseum. That is definitely a rhododendron flower. The yellow with red throat. It is not the paperbark maple -acer griseum. I think your hand slipped there. Your photographs are very clear. My eyesight is not what it was but looking more closely you have posted the same rhodo x 2. Above and below the red one. I think you can swap the second one for the acer. It does not take away from your lovely blog.

What a great day out for you all, enjoyed your pics....

Oh YES!! Thanks SG...am right on to that...you need to see that ACER!! :)))

Voila!! :)))

Lovely

All in all a wonderful way to spend a day.
Looking at your photos Karen I think I must have a silver birch for the bottom of my garden, the rhodos are beautiful, but its the birch that does it for me.

Yes indeed, a silver birch is a good thing in any garden, except teeny weeny ones! I have five in mine...Jacquemontii and ordinary Utilis..all have lovely white bark which cheers me through the winter months!

Glad you all enjoyed your day :o)

Thanks TT.

Lovely gardens karen , thanks for sharing.

My pleasure! :)

Don't know if any GOYs are in our neck of the woods, it would be interesting to meet up.

yep the birch 4 me tooo lovely !!! but i like it all . and wot a brill day you all had ............. fab to meet up isent it !!!.......... i met up with heron llast year ,