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 Many of you will know of my love of Pelargoniums and that I am often taking a six-hour roundtrip up to Stratford upon Avon to visit Fibrex Nurseries.   My trip at the end of August was a bittersweet visit because the owners of the nursery have decided that, for various very good reasons, they will no longer be able to hold the collection at the nursery.   The RHS has agreed to take over the collection, but it will not be in one place, unfortunately.  It will be divided between the five RHS gardens. So my trip at the end of August was to visit the National Collection all in one place, for the last time. Zonal and Regals Stellars, Ivy Leaf and Uniques Scented pelargoniums Angel pelargoniums Species pelargoniums

An evening walk in Guildford had been planned for a few weeks, but it was a question of each of us being free at the same time.   We finally fixed a date and set off in E's car for the Car Park by the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford.  From there we walked back a bit and crossed the river Wey by the Rowing Club.  We took a few pictures there of canal boats moored for the night and some keen rowers.  We found we could not walk along the river bank back towards the town due to a weir that had collapsed earlier in the year being fenced off.  So we crossed back across the river and took the passage beside the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre to the lock, where we were fortunate to see a canal boat in the lock.  We crossed the river again and walked along behind the recently closed Debenhams Store and then across the Town Bridge to the High Street.  We ended up in Chapel Street where we had a really nice meal in a Turkish Restaurant. I hope you enjoy these 'snaps' taken on my small Sony