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Jack Holloway
Passionate Gardener
SEQUOIA FARM Haenertsburg South Africa
Morning light18 Apr '07 6:47 am
I took these yesterday, wishing that I didn't have to leave the farm 
It is ten years since the arboritum was planted, 16 - 18 years since the first seeds and cuttings went in. It is quite amazing just how quickly many of the trees have reached a goodly size. I think in September we will have to give the arboritum a birthday party...
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moosey
head gardener
18 Apr '07 6:10 pm
You will need a tree-hugger for every tree, at that Arboretum party! Lovely autumn colour, Jack.
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Liza
gardening consultant
Waterloo, Belgium
Brilliant!18 Apr '07 7:55 pm
I have said it last Autumn, too : Jack, you lucky guy, living in such a Paradise! And, lucky guy, passing through such a Paradise going to work!!
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Faith S
Perpetually learning gardener
Alabama, USA
Arboretum!19 Apr '07 2:33 am
Oh Jack, Liza is right about you being a lucky guy. Oh what joy to have the space for planting your own arboretum! I suppose I could kick my horses out of their pastures (paddocks) and plant them all with trees. Oh no, what am I thinking! At any rate, I will enjoy seeing pictures of your arboretum. Please keep posting.
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Anna
Gone to seed
Hamilton, New Zealand
19 Apr '07 2:07 pm
I'm loving the photos. My fave being the one with the view from your parents place.
The colours are mind blowing, they're so good! 
Also, it was nice to 'meet' you, although it was hard to see much with your face at that angle. *mutters a bit* 
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Jack Holloway
Passionate Gardener
SEQUOIA FARM Haenertsburg South Africa
Yesterday's walk20 Apr '07 7:08 am
A good 20 years ago, when the farm and the garden was much less developed than it is now, one of my father's partners' wife said to us with great sincerity: "You are truly blessed to have such a place." We so often think of her words. Today my parents arrived home in Johannesburg after their holiday. I chivied them to get to the farm. At their age they can't afford to miss the best of autumn. Which reminds me of a poem I love to teach, although I must admit my pupils don't respond to it as enthusiastically as I do. And yes, I do realise it is a spring poem, not an autumn poem - so all ye Northerners, take note:
CHERRY TREES
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
is hung with bloom along the bough
and stands about the woodland ride
wearing white for Eastertide.
Now of my threescore years and ten
twenty will not come again
and take from seventy years a score
it only leaves me fifty more.
And since to look at things in bloom
fifty springs are little room,
about the woodland I will go
to see the cherry hung with snow.
AE Housman
(I'm quoting from memory so apologies for any errors.)
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Liza
gardening consultant
Waterloo, Belgium
Cherry Tree and ....gorgeous Jack's Autumn!20 Apr '07 7:59 am
Jack, dearest! Well, until this moment I saw your last Autumn photos , I was - almost- convinced , that my La Hulpe (Chateau) Autumn experience, has been the best..Now, I can clearly see that No!! Because there, the Autumn colours are ...monotonously gorgeous..YOUR Autumn is an alive painting with the best ever changing redish and purple colours all the time!! This is MAGNIFICENT! And that capture of your parents' "dam", another photo prize winner! As for the lake with black ducks , I also sent it to my Jack's Best Photos File... Thank you, SO much!!!
And, please, explain to me, what is the difference between Ducks and Geese! Because in my Enlglish lessons , when little, I learnt, that the white ones are called Ducks and the colourful -- the "wild" ones -- are the Geese.
And, finally,your Cherry Tree Spring poem being adorable, made me want sending you some of the La Hulpe Spring photos I took recently there,....before I send them again in ...my La Hulpe "collection" at the Tours.. . Here:
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Dixie
garden enthusiast
Waikato-New Zealand
Beautiful20 Apr '07 1:25 pm
These pictures are absolutely stunning - Liquidamber and flowering cherry -loveliest of trees Autumn and Spring !
Geese are a larger bird than Ducks .
Dunedin harbour in the South Island have a group of geese who live at Port Chalmers -everyone knows them and when you are driving you are naturally careful to watch out for them .They are quite comical to watch .
Dixie
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Jack Holloway
Passionate Gardener
SEQUOIA FARM Haenertsburg South Africa
Ducks & Geese20 Apr '07 4:10 pm
I checked my South African bird 'bible'... there is not even an attempt to differentiate between them, and for good measure they throw in swans too!
I'd agree with Dixie that ducks are smaller - but then we have the Pygmy Goose, 2/3 the size of a duck...
My guess is that geese tend to be squatter and more solid. They have stouter bills and they tend to spend more time AT the water rather than ON the water than ducks.
Both 'farm geese' and 'farm ducks' can be white, but not one of our indigenous species of either is white.
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