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  • TotteTotte Posts: 13,965
    JOdel said:

    Oh. I thought that it had a sod roof, and the grass was alive and growing.

    On the shelter yes, living grass and moss, but on the little wood shelf, thatch.

     

  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,119
    edited April 2017

    Old and new thatching on a roof showing the colour difference.

    http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-old-thatched-roof-in-the-process-of-being-replaced-by-new-thatch-on-25267509.html

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  • TotteTotte Posts: 13,965
    Fishtales said:

    Old and new thtatching on a roof showing the colour difference.

    http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-old-thatched-roof-in-the-process-of-being-replaced-by-new-thatch-on-25267509.html

    Thanks - I need new (yellowish), average (lighter yellow) and old (greyish) colors then ;-)
     

  • LinwellyLinwelly Posts: 5,947
    Ice Dragon Art said:
    TangoAlpha said:

    Thatch'll really only be yellow for a few months - it goes grey pretty quickly. Most thatched roofs are a darkish grey, unless they've very recently been replaced. (lots of thatched roofs around here.)

    I remember the first time I saw Lord of the Rings and thinking how rediculous it looked that the entire of Hobbiton had just been freshly thatched (and even more rediculous that when they returned a year later, it was still yellow!) ​

     

    Now that pale green . . . it could easily be grass or silage. I don't know that it'd be particularly waterproof, but it does look the part.

    That's really interesting I had no idea they turned gray. It blows my mind that they still have thatched roofs. (its not something I have ever seen in the US which makes it even cool)

    They still do thatched roofs in norther Germany but rarely, its supposed to have e real nice effect on the room climate but it needs tending to, and there are not many people who still know how to properly thatch a roof ( beside the problem that the areas the the reed ot growing are rather reduced as well)

  • TotteTotte Posts: 13,965
    Linwelly said:
    Ice Dragon Art said:
    TangoAlpha said:

    Thatch'll really only be yellow for a few months - it goes grey pretty quickly. Most thatched roofs are a darkish grey, unless they've very recently been replaced. (lots of thatched roofs around here.)

    I remember the first time I saw Lord of the Rings and thinking how rediculous it looked that the entire of Hobbiton had just been freshly thatched (and even more rediculous that when they returned a year later, it was still yellow!) ​

     

    Now that pale green . . . it could easily be grass or silage. I don't know that it'd be particularly waterproof, but it does look the part.

    That's really interesting I had no idea they turned gray. It blows my mind that they still have thatched roofs. (its not something I have ever seen in the US which makes it even cool)

    They still do thatched roofs in norther Germany but rarely, its supposed to have e real nice effect on the room climate but it needs tending to, and there are not many people who still know how to properly thatch a roof ( beside the problem that the areas the the reed ot growing are rather reduced as well)

    The local grocery store here (just 100 meters from my home), was  build using a moss roof. It works great except in one condition. First two weeks of extreme dry and warm weather (summer), than a heavy rain. When it happens it's "bucket season" inside, but they now have leaned that they need to water the moss during warm periods so it's wet, then water will slide off the roof, otherwise it will pass through it.

     

  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,584

    I nipped out with my camera at lunchtime, to one of the villages nearby (literally a few hundred metres from one of the UK's main space research centres!) and photographed some thatched roofs. One has recently been mended, so is probably of particular interest for the colours.

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  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,119

    Is that Hawthorn flowering already. Ours up here in Scotland are only just turning green I wont expect flowers until the second week in May. Unless of course that is Buckthorn.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited April 2017
    Fishtales said:

    Is that Hawthorn flowering already. Ours up here in Scotland are only just turning green I wont expect flowers until the second week in May. Unless of course that is Buckthorn.

    No Hawthorn in Sunny Wales yet either.   Real spring is always a few weeks behind compared to over there in England I have noticed, especially southern England

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  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,584

    I didn't look very closely, but I think it's an apple tree (the apples are in full bloom in my back garden). Blackthorn and hawthorn were in full bloom here a week or two ago - Spring has gone voom in the last fortnight!

  • TotteTotte Posts: 13,965

    Nice, I think you can you my thatches and put them on roofs too ;-)

  • TotteTotte Posts: 13,965
    edited May 2017

    Coming soon.....

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  • JimbowJimbow Posts: 557

    Excellent. Really looking forward to that.

  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,119

    I used your Fly Tying set in this image Totte.

    Learning to tie flies over the winter.

    Click on image for full size.

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