No frost yet, but raw, wet mornings. I keep glancing at the met office forecasts looking for a mild settled spell to see out the last of the autumn colour. No luck that I can see.
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The Turning of the Season
It’s cold now. A depression roared in
from the Atlantic last week and we
still have blustery showers, and the first snow on the tops. When I say snow on the tops I don’t mean Ben Nevis , the Ben has had snow for some weeks now, but
snow on the hills opposite us on south Loch Ness …...hills around 200ft
The mornings have become dark and I
have become very sluggish getting out to the garden. In less than a week the
clocks will go back and we will have some brighter mornings, though colder of
course.
No frost yet, but raw, wet mornings. I keep glancing at the met office forecasts looking for a mild settled spell to see out the last of the autumn colour. No luck that I can see.
The colour is still wonderful and now
that the flashy early reds of Acers and Horse Chestnuts and Geans are through,
the colours are taking on russet depths that clothe and pillow the hills in
birch and oak.
A bright sunny day would be food for
the soul.
No frost yet, but raw, wet mornings. I keep glancing at the met office forecasts looking for a mild settled spell to see out the last of the autumn colour. No luck that I can see.
Oh to be a Movie Star
In
September the production team arrived.
Donald was on duty, smiling and informative and demonstrating amazing
patience as they take and retake and take again.
The exercise was to buy 3 plants for a garden on Skye. Not necessarily plants that would suit Skye, but something Interesting.
They chose
All
of which will thrive in the wet warm west.
You know the old saying “Never work with Children and animals” . Well true to form, our old dog, West, was ready to make new friends and hog the camera, but no go, they sent him home!
The
finished product will be on TV Alba in January…such a long time away.
It
was a crew from Tern TV and they came to film for a Gaelic TV gardening
programme. Donald, despite his Gaelic speaking roots stuck to English
The exercise was to buy 3 plants for a garden on Skye. Not necessarily plants that would suit Skye, but something Interesting.
They chose
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| Pseudowintera colorata |
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| Eryngium bourgatii Graham Stuart Thomas |
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| Eucryphia milliganii |
They
started about 2pm and worked through
around 4 hours…..no tea breaks. These
guys are made of stern stuff.
This
was all done to the intermittent whining of a local chainsaw, the occasional
low flying aircraft and heavy lorries. All of this pleased the sound man.
And
like TV crews we have dealt with before, they were a pleasure to meet and work with.
Good fun
You know the old saying “Never work with Children and animals” . Well true to form, our old dog, West, was ready to make new friends and hog the camera, but no go, they sent him home!
But
watch out for him skulking in the bushes.
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