Wandering palms

Another damp, drizzly and gloomy day! Had a coffee this morning with  a journalist from the Oban Times - she's extremely helpful and of course keen to get articles for the paper, so we discussed Oban Photographic Club, the Scottish Wildlife Trust and the various projects which we in Keep Oban Beautiful are trying to arrange and promote, the latest of which is a banner high across George Street in Oban saying 'Keep Oban Beautiful - find us on Facebook'. This is all being paid for by BID4Oban, our 'Business Improvement District' company in the town. At the end of March we'll be holding our 3rd - or is it 4th? - 'Oban Spring Clean' when we invite anyone, any group, any business to 'Pick a Patch' to clean up, all the advertising for which is again being paid for by BID4Oban. So it's all happening.

Not a great day for Blips tho', so today it's a close-up of the first two seedlings of a Trachycarpus  palm. They may be T. fortunei or maybe another species. I picked up a few seeds which had been shed from a palm at Trelissick Garden in Cornwall, at the head of the Fal estuary, which we visited while on Holiday last October. There was no label, so I'm not entirely sure, but whichever it is they'll grow well here. They sit on the radiator at night and the windowsill by day. I've only just noticed that unfortunately I've labelled them as coming from Trewithen - an easy mistake in Cornwall where most gardens begin with Tre-!

I forgot my quote again! Here it is now - 

Christopher Robin Milne 'The Enchanted Places'  - "You can love the country in two quite different ways, as a cat loves it or as a dog loves it!"