I'm Back!

It's a well known fact that gardeners need patience: after all a seed doesn't turn into a fruiting plant overnight. My naturally patient nature is probably why I (Tommy) am the Bears Unlimited gardening bear. It also means that I was happy to break off from my postings about the Open Gardens scheme, to allow Gio and the Greenbelt team to post about their Greenbelt experiences which they were all so enthusiastic about.

They've now handed back to me so I'll continue with my Sunny Sunday tale.

After our spell of gate duty Henry, and I hurried into the cool of the 2 gardens which were open for us to explore. Here there was definite evidence that that these gardens enjoyed a lot of sunshine.


I was so surprised to see these lemons. It was the first time I had seen lemons growing in an English garden, although Eddie had told me about seeing them growing in Greece when he was on his last sailing holiday.

I was also impressed by the size of the bell peppers growing in the greenhouse ...


... real beauties they were, and I couldn't help but think of all the wonderful dishes chef Oakley could create, if I could grow him some peppers as fine as these.

The greenhouse was beside the owner's bee-hives which I found quite fascinating. I think bee-keeping could be a very relaxing hobby so I asked lots of questions about what is involved. I was rather alarmed to hear that the greenhouse in which I was standing had caught fire earlier in the year when the owner had been smoking the bees.

As I thought about all the potential dangers, I started to have second thoughts about taking up bee-keeping. More research is definitely needed.

Lots of love, Tommy & Henry xxx