Moorcrag

Today's the day ......................... to foster

Friends have been so kind in recent weeks - offering to give a home to some of my special plants until such time as we can retrieve them.

We took some today to Heather and Alan who live in this wonderful house overlooking Lake Windermere.  One of the plants that we left with them is of particular significance.  It's a very large indoor plant, Crassula ovata - or as we call it - the Money Plant.  It was given to me many years ago by a good friend when it was quite small.  It was a cutting from a plant that she had and she said that, from the time that she had had it, her financial worries seemed to have disappeared.  She hoped our plant would have the same effect.  And looking back, I think it probably has.

So I'm very glad that our Money Plant will be spending time in this house designed in 1899 by Charles F. A. Voysey (1857- 1941).  He was an English architect, famous for his furniture and textile designs in a simple Arts and Crafts style, but most renowned as the architect of a number of notable country houses, Moorcrag being one of them.

In fact, come to think of it, I'm pretty jealous of our Money Plant ...........................