A SEAT WITH A VIEW - BCAM4

As I didn’t do my Seat with a View collage last Sunday, I decided I would do it this morning, so asked Mr. HCB if he would be prepared to “model” for me and he was reasonably happy to do so - he is so good!

We have several seats dotted around the garden, but when it is very sunny in the mornings - which sadly it wasn’t today - we like to sit on the blue seat to have our coffee as it is generally in the shade.

Mr. HCB had taken the fuchsias out of the pots earlier in the week and is going to try and over-winter them but fortunately, he had left the lovely pink geraniums, so this is the “pink” part of my BCAM challenge for today.  There is also a purple verbena bonariensis, which after all is just a darker shade of pink and which is new this year, but we hope it will grow well  amongst the phlox, roses and borage.

Looking through the archway are all the nasturtiums that were planted underneath the climbing French beans, and which did a great job and of course, the yellow Helianthus flowers just keep blooming and blooming.

Next are the Kalettes which are a lovely shade of purple and pink with a single passion flower from one of the plants given to us by fellow Blipper, Angelique and which has done really well this year.

A view from this seat in our garden wouldn’t be complete, without getting up and walking round to the greenhouse, where Mr. HCB spends a lot of his time, to see the remaining tomatoes - I have just put another lot into the oven to dry off and they are beginning to smell wonderful, having been sprinkled with basil and are looking good.

We have lived in this house since 1982 when our boys were quite young and although it really is too big for just the two of us, we like it here, we have great neighbours and we are not overlooked by anyone.  We have a lovely conservatory and spend a lot of time out there in the summer, especially when it is too windy to sit in the garden and of course, as gardens go these days, we have quite a large one, which Mr. HCB loves and which keeps him out of mischief.  We have a bus service that runs every ten minutes and are just five minutes from the motorway, so if we down-sized, we would be hard pushed to find anywhere with all that.  

“Fight each round,
     take it on the chin;
          and never, never, never
               ever give in.”
Olivia Newton-John in her song, “Why Me,
a tribute to her battle with breast cancer.

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