Brilliant hot day today with about 80 visitors. Here are the hostas on display. Most we have had for several years, but were not in flower. On Tuesday we found half price hostas in flower at Wyvale Gard Centre. Two in flower just finished off the display. There is some slug/snail damage, but not much. The plands are on gravel in pots, and pots have been sprayed with WD40. Snails hate it.
Next to the hostas are alpines in pots, Jean's passion. Space in the alpine bed ran out long ago. Here are the pots, with violas behind which gives a colourful display.
A scarecrow theme ran through the village. We put up a Himalayan tea picker theme, using Buddhist prayer flags bought recently from Bhutan, a shalwar shamez we bought at a bazaar in Lahore, and an umbrella from China. We saw this scene in Bhutan many times. The bushes are lonicera nitida, trimmed to resemble tea trees. The hat was bought in Bali (we think...) On the post is a tin of Darjeeling tea, and on the bush a box of Napal tea sent to me by a Nepalese student. The flags are blue (water), white (air), red (fire), green (vegetation), yellow (earth). The prayer is for an integrated understanding.
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