Tipo Kupa and Spring Flowers

Last week was devoted to the garden and spring cleaning. The first picture shows how nice our tulpis were earlier on, but by now they have all finished. Roy suggested that as I had to go to BP on Tuesday for a meeting, on our return we should visit the nursery where we bought the pelargonia last year. Well, that turned out to be an expensive visit. We bought 7 hanging baskets, some pansies (they were free), a few gerbera plats, some pepper plants for the veg patch and replacement pelargonias for the places where they didn't want to revive. The yard now looks great as you can see and Roy planted his lovely pansies in old wooden washbowls.

After some heavy cleaning and tidying in the house we departed to the Tipo Kupa, where I managed three very good courses (see maps above!) in some lovely, steep and rocky mountain forest and managed to beat allcomers. Not that it was too difficult, as most of my usual opposition was either away or running up. We also had guests staying as the event was in commuting distance and we all had nice big feasts and good company during the long weekend.

Must start packing now, as I am off to the Bukk for a week's Trail-O planning and Roy will stay at home looking after the place.