Long Mizzle Garden

 Al'reet m' chiefs,   Of course the title's a play on a line in the 1975 film Jaws - 'We're gonna need a bigger boat'. Before I get onto pots, I'd like to share a little outing, and perhaps some boats... It's been an action packed week off and now I'm feeling like I need extra time to recover! One highlight was going over to the north coast with the kiddiwinkles and ancient ones.   The Fern Pit Cafe on the edge of Newquay, overlooks the River Gannel and Crantock beach. If I ever I think Long Mizzle's split levels are challenging, I think of the heavenly steep cliff side garden that tumbles down from the cafe to the boathouse and footbridge below. Above: Red Valerian (Centrranthus ruber) Unfortunately the steps, boathouse and footbridge were closed off on the day we visited. I have many fond memories of spending whole dusty summer days as a child, mucking about crab fishing, then walking back up the endless steps for an ice cold strawberry m...

Hello m' red carpet luvas, I know to do what we do, you gotta be able to take people heckling you over the garden wall, saying stuff like "eh, you've left your fog lights on your car", or "I saw I rat by the compost heap yesterday", deliberately distracting words such as "would you like some freshly baked chocolate beetroot cake". And you gotta be able to take it when people say you are crazy for talking to plants. In this business, you gotta have to be able to have people disrespecting you, saying the previous owners had the garden lawn looking all pristine and immaculate , and you gotta smile and you gotta pretend like its ok.  Well this is a beautiful moment. *I just want to say thank you to all you lovely readers for wishing me luck and .......  [cue over riding exit music]..... *Large portions stolen from Will Smith's 2022 Oscar Speech  Disclaimer: no real 'bitch slaps' were handed out in the making of this post. That's just s...