Things we can't eat - part 1 :-)

We might have given the impression with this blog that we always and only care about edible plants; so this little post will be devoted to flowers. Before we moved to the current house and garden in July 2011, the garden was tended to by the "one careful, previous lady owner". She is lady in her 80s and there are lots and lots of flowers which show a - how can you phrase this without sounding ageist - certain type of taste. This taste somehow contravenes the Head Gardener's colour schemes and preference for flowers.

The dutiful Sub Gardener has removed a high number of roses from the offending beds in the upper part of the garden to the lower part of garden, which we sometimes call the "orchard" or the "bottom bit". Moving roses is also a sacrifical ritual, in order to appease the native muntjac deer, as - allegedly - they like to jump fences, coming from the nearby Common and will munch things. Now, the theory is that they like roses and the HG doesn't (well, most of them had pink petals, so you might not have liked them either), so a mutal agreeable arrangement might be that they will eat the roses and won't go any further in our garden.
SG