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Yearly Archives: 2012
Foliage for September GBFD
No sooner does summer arrive at last, than the leaves start turning colour on some of the plants as if to say, enjoy it while you can, autumn isn’t far behind. Some of the foliage is still beautifully green, like … Continue reading
I’m not ready for Autumn!
Early mornings now have a chill about them which wasn’t there a few days ago, quite often we start off with mist or fog which the sun burns away a couple of hours later. Sometimes when looking towards Exeter we … Continue reading
Calling at Cadhay.
Garden visits are a bit like buses, you wait quite some time for one, then two come along at once! When we visited Killerton a couple of weeks ago to get inspiration for a late border, I never realised that … Continue reading
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Tagged allotments, Cadhay Manor, double borders, jacobean yews, late flowers, medieval garden, stew ponds, walled garden
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Super Summer in September
With summer only really arriving in September this year, flowers seem to have gone into overdrive, almost as if they want to make up for lost time. If we start with the Clematis Alba Luxuriens on the pergola, this is … Continue reading
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Tagged anemone, Angelica, autumn flowers, clematis, Fennel, Fuchsia, grasses, Hosta, Inula, lily, Lythrum, Miscanthus, physostegia, Rose, Rudbeckia, September flowers, Tulbaghia, watsonia
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Bee and Butterfly Fest.
What a difference a few days of non-stop sunshine makes, summer has arrived at last and the bees and butterflies are making up for lost time. Certain areas of the garden are buzzing and flitting, movement everywhere, its fantastic.
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Tagged bees, butterflies, Eupatorium purpureum, late flowering plants, nectar rich plants
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Inspiration at Killerton.
Inspiration is needed to add late interest to the border that we have at the side by the farmers field. Shrubs have grown rather large and are making the perennials lean forward at an alarming degree. Lots of cutting back … Continue reading
All our rain is doing some good!
So much rain has fallen over the past months, that for quite some time a lot of the garden was sodden and some even under water, however all this rain is doing a lot of good to certain areas of … Continue reading
August Foliage GBFD
Some of the foliage in the garden has started to take on autumnal tints, but I am not ready for autumn yet! This first one is a photo of the leaves of Geranium Spinners
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Tagged autumn tints, Darmera, elymus, foliage, geranium, lamium, Mahonia, Miscanthus variegatus, pontaderia, rhododendron, stipa arundinacea
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Our visitors have arrived!
All summer I have been waiting for our visitors to arrive, but with all the rain and cold wind that we have been having, there was no chance, until a few days ago. That morning started off very misty and … Continue reading
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Tagged bees, butterflies, Comma, Crickets, dragonflies, Gatekeeper, Jersey Tiger Moth, Painted Lady, Peacock, Red Admiral, Tortoiseshell
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August abundance.
I know I’ve been going on about it lately, but the August garden has had so many more flowers than it usually has, thanks to all the rain we have been having.