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Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?

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    As I understand it, anything done structurally or cosmetically to the building has to be in keeping, sympathetically undertaken and effectively not change it architecturally.
    You retain the character or can return it to a more original condition. And ought to maintain it appropriately. Hence the Virginia creeper was doomed.

    Once listed grade 1 (highest with most restrictions) or 2 there are statute laws to be obeyed.

    But there may be even more rules e.g. in one case/area I know about, a committee had to be consulted.
    You can't replace victorian patterned wood parquet flooring with practical industrial hospital type lino. It will have to be new same parquet that costs a fortune and takes weeks to lay, as happened in the Library in the same building with the v creeper on the outside wall.

    Of course H&S and Equality means you can, with permission, install new lifts (elevators) and ramps.
    You probably have something similar in the US.

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      Does this include both interior and exterior work?

      Sounds like it does.

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        Sounds similar to our US historic preservation laws. For the federal government you get a tax break if you promise to keep the property in historical condition. My grandparents listed their Arts and Crafts house in Medford Oregon on the register of National Historic places or some such.

        Municipalities can have their own restrictions as well.

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          As I understand it, anything done structurally or cosmetically to the building has to be in keeping, sympathetically undertaken and effectively not change it architecturally.
          You retain the character or can return it to a more original condition. And ought to maintain it appropriately. Hence the Virginia creeper was doomed.

          Once listed grade 1 (highest with most restrictions) or 2 there are statute laws to be obeyed.

          But there may be even more rules e.g. in one case/area I know about, a committee had to be consulted.
          You can't replace victorian patterned wood parquet flooring with practical industrial hospital type lino. It will have to be new same parquet that costs a fortune and takes weeks to lay, as happened in the Library in the same building with the v creeper on the outside wall.

          Of course H&S and Equality means you can, with permission, install new lifts (elevators) and ramps.
          You probably have something similar in the US.

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          @AndyD Someone I follow on YT, visited her Aunt and Uncle's place in Suffulk (I believe) a few Christmases ago and they talk about the work involved in owning a Grade 2 structure. Their son did some amazing work on the place. . . (starting at 2:33 in the video) . . .

          Link to video

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            Exquisite.
            A Suffolk tithe barn, what a privilege to own, restore, furnish and inhabit.
            And such a lovely couple.

            (What Christmas decorations...)
            Philip pans past a corner cabinet and a very old looking grandfather clock. Then it's a sensory overload of paintings, ancient beams, acorns capping every newel post.
            Everywhere objects of interest.

            I've never stopped a video so many times wanting to zoom in at antiques.
            OMG their paintings.

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              In London for daughters birthday and it's summer here. Roses...
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                Even the small areas around street trees are flourishing. Here self seeded poppy and malva(?)
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                  Your roses look fantastic! πŸ‘

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                    They're not mine alas, just walking the dog in London admiring some gardens near our flat.

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                      Lovely roses. I've given up on hybrid roses. My family in Oregon can grow them spectacularly, but my luck with them in New England has been kinda heartbreaking.

                      My bloomscroll today is the native blue flag iris.
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                        Lovely roses. I've given up on hybrid roses. My family in Oregon can grow them spectacularly, but my luck with them in New England has been kinda heartbreaking.

                        My bloomscroll today is the native blue flag iris.
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                        @rustyfingers said in Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?:

                        Lovely roses. I've given up on hybrid roses.

                        I'm trying own-root roses from this outfit:

                        https://heirloomroses.com/blogs/about-us-ordering/about

                        Costco had them online last year and I bought three of them. Everybody made it through the winter, though there was a fair amount of dieback. I had planted one is what turned out to be too much of a shady area, so I moved it this year and it's rebounding nicely.

                        OTOH, I'm now remembering why I stopped growing roses years ago...they seem to be susceptible to every imaginable disease and insect that's out there....

                        When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie AumΓ΄nier

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                          Bayer Rose and Flower systemic works very well.

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                            Iris are so beautiful, ours aren't flowering yet, while in old Londinium they're all but finished.
                            Except these two from my early dog walk around Woodford

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                              And some other blooms I came across (help me with names please)

                              Red hot poker
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                              Judas plant?
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                              And a stunning bottle brush(?)
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                                #2 I know as Agapanthus Africanus - Lily of the Nile.

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                                  Noticed daughter's rose in three stages of bloom

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