Re: White Flower Farms - a brief visit
- Subject: Re: White Flower Farms - a brief visit
- From: G* B*
- Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 16:17:15 -0400
Hello Claire,
I had forgotten all about Devonshire cream. I will look around for it
and see it is as I remember. I enjoyed the tea shops myself. Cucumber
sandwiches on buttered bread. The sweet shops were my downfall.... could not
pass a sweet shop without purchasing a pound or so of chocolates. I got
"hooked" on two things while over there... hot tea and Belgian chocolates.
Fresh Belgian chocolates. Can no longer purchase them (that I am aware) in
this area. One department store used to fly them in once a week. Now no
longer there. Most of my experience was in Oxford.
I can not hear the words "St. Martin's in the Field" without thinking of
Sir Neville Mariner (sp?) directing St. Martin's in the Field chorus ,
orchestra, etc., everything I seem to purchase in music today.
To stick some plans in there. I just spent most of the week renovating
one area of my garden. I had let a bed become overgrown with lily of the
valley. The thugs had smothered out everything else in the bed. First they
had to be dug out without damaging the tree roots of the white-blooming
redbud that forms a canopy over the area. After they were removed.. two days
of digging... I covered the L shaped area with about 4 inches of old potting
medium from the nursery. Then about 800 pounds of composted manure. All was
mixed thoroughly digging one spade at a time lengthwise and then across.
Today I planted the area once more. Lots of ferns in 3's, primula in 3's and
6's, hellebore in pairs as they eventually get pretty good size. All is to
bloom about the same time as the white blooming redbud... mid-April.
Feels good to finally get back to my garden and get some dirt under my
fingernails.
Gene E. Bush
Munchkin Nursery & Gardens, llc
www.munchkinnursery.com
genebush@munchkinnursery.com
Zone 6/5 Southern Indiana
----- Original Message -----
> Can't you find the Devonshire cream in Indiana. I can send you some. In
New
> York you can find anything.
>
> My husband would go for the scones with you. He is sucker for every tea
shop
> in the UK. Many of them are run by Vietnamese or Indians today but the
food
> is the same.
> Scones, jam and the D. cream.
> then add the tea and it is alway boiling hot in a tea shop.Why don't the
> Brits all have high cholesterol. Mentioned to a Brit, cholesterol is an
> "American thing".
> If you return, go to St. Martin's in the Field which is in London. You
can
> have tea in the crypt. ( a real crypt). Then you spend the rest of day in
> bookstores, the night listening to free concerts. Just another memory.
>
> Claire Peplowski
> NYS z4
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