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Monthly Archives: March 2012
Review of March.
By reviewing what we have done in the month, I can make sure that I am keeping up to date with what I had planned to do, or that is the idea! Hope it doesn’t go the way of New … Continue reading
St. Patrick, you’re late.
The narcissus, St. Patrick’s Day, has never let me down before. It has always flowered on March 17th, St. Patrick’s day, no matter what the weather has been like. This is how it was this year, tight bud. It took … Continue reading
New Shoots Everywhere. GBFD.
I have used this months Garden Bloggers Foliage Day to concentrate on all the new shoots that are bursting everywhere around the garden. Lots of plants have been cut back and buds are now opening with a promise of what … Continue reading
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Tagged actinidea, Allium, Arum, Berberis, brunnera, Buddleja, caltha, Colchicum, euphorbia, fritillaria, hemerocallis, hydrangea, Lonicera, meconopsis, milleum, paeony, philadelphus, physocarpus, pulmonaria, rheum, rose. y, Spirea, Viburnum, yew
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Mother’s Day came early.
Mother’s Day came early to this household, on Saturday instead of Sunday. We went to Docton Mill Garden in north Devon, which is quite famous for its daffodils, had a good look round the garden and then had an absolutely … Continue reading
4.30am Wake Up Call.
Would you like to be woken up at 4.30am each morning if you are retired and didn’t have to get up early to go to work! ? Lately a pheasant has taken to roosting overnight in the garden and decided … Continue reading
Spring Flowers March In.
Spring has certainly arrived in March, the flowers are coming thick and fast with new ones opening up everyday. Wave after wave of new ones are making the little woodland so pretty at the moment, definitely my favourite part of … Continue reading
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Tagged anamone, Azalea, cardamine, Chaenomeles, chionodoxa, corydalis, cowslip, Crocus, euphorbia, fritillary, Galanthus, grape hyacinth, Hellebore, hepatica, hyacinth, lithodora, March, primrose, pulmonaria, Scilla, spring flowers, Viburnum, violet, ypsilandra
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Wave of Yellow.
Slowly but surely, the colour in the woodland is changing from the white of the snowdrops to the yellow of the narcissus as they gradually open. It is as if a wave of yellow is slowly expanding across the garden, … Continue reading
Before and after.
I found a photograph album which contained the before and after photos which we took when making the garden here years ago, or , if you like, how we turned , not quite a field, more wall to wall grass, … Continue reading