Hestercombe II

This has been a while coming, but here's the next installment of new camera at Hestercombe, yay!

See my previous post for some explanation of what Hestercombe is. I went with the lovely Niall.

View down into the formal garden from the round pond (with a Niall in)

Niall's photo, up into the water feature

False orange blossom, it smells lovely

Balustrade + Japanese anemones

A long rhene edged with stone

Lovely red Virginia creeper

More lovely creeper overhead

The central part of the formal garden, from above

Lovely echinops & a well-weathered bench

All my photos from Hestercombe can be found in my Flickr set. These were all taken on my new Canon Ixus 105!

Moar Velvia! - Part I

The Orford Ness photos from the previous post were all shot on Fuji Velvia 100F but I didn't finish the roll. It came with me to Southwold and produced these:

Valerian shadows in Granny's yard

Some purply hollyhocks in Primrose Alley. I love the pebbled wall, the colour of the bricks, and the shadows.

And a pink hollyhock


Afternoon sunlight in a bedroom

A convex mirror self-portrait á la Adam


Down on the prom

The view from a beach hut

Busy day at the beach

The film then returned to Bristol with me, but that's another post...

All these photos were taken on Fuji Velvia 100F with my Pentax ME Super.

Rosemoor On Film I

The second installment of a family trip to RHS garden Rosemoor in North Devon. The first post can be found here.
The first half of these photos are taken on Fuji Superia Reala 100 and the second half on Fuji Superia X-tra 400 (although possibly shot with my camera set to 100 still).


Purple clematis in the Queen Mother's Rose Garden

A rather tame little robin

Rosehips on the roll end (the start of the new one)


Bee-covered white flowers

A lovely purple agapanthus

A very vivid dahlia in the hot coloured garden


Ruby chard in the cottage garden

Echinacea & a bee

Cornflowers and marigolds

These photos were all taken using my Pentax ME Super. All of my Rosemoor photos (film & digital) can be found here.

A Roll'a Reala, again.

But a different one! Taken during August I believe.
Some sunny summery things (Lynmouth & Rosemoor shots on this roll will appear in later posts)


Cauliflower salad on the kitchen worktop.

Echinops & a bee in the back garden.

Angelica seedheads in the back garden.


Pretty light on a plant beside the road.

Catty lazing in the shade of Mum's willow hedge.

Sweet chestnut leaves looking autumnal early.

Clematis climbing out of focus.

All my photos can be found here. I have specific sets for my ME Super, and for types of film. These are all on Fuji Superia Reala 100.

Rosemoor

A family day trip to RHS Garden Rosemoor near Great Torrington in North Devon.
Mum wanted to see the William Morris exhibition so we all went along, and didn't realise that the exhibition closed earlier than the garden; we missed it. Fail. Mum & Kate went back on our way home from Cornwall though so she got to see it in the end.

We also saw a rather amazing feat of knitting in a marquee on one of the lawn terraces. There was everything you could imagine in a sea scene, including a life-size mermaid and a lifeboat! Those who know me will know that I am a keen (but not overly skilled) crocheter who normally has several projects under way at once.

There are lots of different bits of the garden which showcase how good the RHS is at everything. There were some rose gardens at the top full of lovely smelling specimens. We also spotted a little mouse in a flowerbed! He didn't seem to mind us being there, but was a bit put out when Dad poked him with the umbrella...
My favourite bits were the kitchen garden (such amazing fruit & veg!), the cottage garden (I think I prefer informal planting, to use horticultural terms!) and the hot coloured garden (can't remember the official name) which is planted with lots of orange, red and yellow.


Black Eyed Susans from above, reminding me strongly of 60s wallpaper.


And from below.


One of many rather nice dahlias.

Some ladies taking in the view of the hot coloured garden.

Echinacea in the cottage garden.

A lovely peacock butterfly on the best coloured kind of lilac.


A blue hydrangea down by the pond/lake.

A gourd hiding in the kitchen garden.

A rain-spotted but vibrant dahlia in the shop.

Again I suffered from the frustrations of the Kodak CX7350 and took more on film, which will be posted at a later date. I should soon be getting another little compact digital camera to play with though. Hurrah! I'd rather like to go back for a more relaxed visit on a sunnier day, it's a shame it's so hard to get to.

More (and soon to be film) in my Rosemoor set on Flickr.

Beside The Seaside

Housel Bay(map) on The Lizard near the Southernmost Point, is absolutely gorgeous. And I don't use that word lightly (unless I'm being sarcastic!)


From the East side.


The path down to the beach there is quite lovely too.


There are alliums growing wild next to the coast path.


And foxgloves.


It's nice to just sit on the rocks and watch the water.