Monday 24 October 2016


Visited the famous giant pumpkin on Saturday, grown at RHS Hyde Hall in Essex from a pumpkin seed that cost £1250; if it's a bit pale and wan, that's because it has been kept out of the sun to make sure it didn't split. It's displayed in the Hallowe'en pumpkin graveyard where someone has had fun writing pumpkin epitaphs. Not being a gardener, the tombstone inscription Ms Belle S Perennis: Pushing Up Daisies had to be explained to me before I got the joke.

2 comments:

krishna said...

What a giant pumpkin.. I've never been pumpkin festival, so I've seen giant pumpkins id photos only...

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mary said...

Hello, Krishna. I think pumpkin festivals came to us with all the Halloowe'en frenzy from America, because I don't remember them in my childhood - we had turnip lanterns instead!