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An Optical illusion - I hope

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My daughter has been down from Scotland for a week (the heat shocked her!) and I have an addition to the garden. Hubby fixed it up after a lot of hmmmming and ahhhhhing and then we kept looking at it and into it from all different angles. We think it looks good, and apparently the birds won’t fly into it.
Also a rose which another daughter sent (from M & S) a couple of years ago which was in a pot, is in the garden and is looking lovely and is about 6 times as high as it was in the pot. Photo attached, I hope.
The first water lily of the summer. I hope more will follow as last year it was split and decimated.
The forecast says that it will be extremely hot and humid this weekend, so I’ll be good for nothing, but I hope the flowers don’t suffer too.

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Lovely garden Mad, I think the birds will enjoy perching on your trellis instead !!

8 Jul, 2010

 

Very nice Mad. Will you be tempted to grow something up it.

8 Jul, 2010

 

Mad, It's a mirror, isn't it ? Very, very nice indeed.

8 Jul, 2010

 

Well spotted Shirley, I think you could be right

8 Jul, 2010

mad
Mad
 

Yes its a mirror, bought from the Gardeners World website. I don't think I'll grow anything up it though!

8 Jul, 2010

 

Thats very clever, didnt spot that at all Lol !!!

8 Jul, 2010

 

Beautiful image in the mirror.

8 Jul, 2010

 

Lovely pictures Mad, like your new trellis and mirror and you white rose igorgeous is it Iceberg? I also love you water lily but what are all the little bubbles is it a water spray?

8 Jul, 2010

 

Looking good Mad ... mirror is a great idea & your flowers are fab! The lily is so perfect!

8 Jul, 2010

 

Lovely pics Mad!

9 Jul, 2010

 

I really love your mirror trellis, what a good way to add depth to your garden. It looks really good, I may just pinch your idea as I am looking for something for my kitchen wall!

9 Jul, 2010

 

Just caught up with this blog! Love the mirror trellis - I am frantically thinking where I can put one now. I've always worried about birds flying into mirrors in the garden but this seems ideal, brilliant idea.

11 Jul, 2010

 

I've searched on the Gardener's World site and also on Google but can't locate a trellis mirror like the one you pictured. Not sure if I'd have room to accommodate one of these but I'd love to track one down all the same! Dreaming again...lol

Lovely pictures, Mad.

6 Sep, 2010

mad
Mad
 

Whistonlass, the site is on gardeners-world.net/Garden Mirrors

6 Sep, 2010

 

Got it, Mad. I think it will go on my wish list...a lady is entitled to dream...lol.

6 Sep, 2010

mad
Mad
 

I wondered if you would have got my message as I put it here, but I'm glad you did. Yes a lady should have a dream, I had this one for quite a few years and finally got it. Hope you do, eventually Whistonlass.

7 Sep, 2010

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