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Yearly Archives: 2012
Bluebells at Blackbury.
To make up for the lack of flower photos in my last post, this post will have thousands!! All of them will be the English bluebell, Hyacinthoides non scripta.
Wall to wall sunshine!
We were told that Saturday and Sunday were going to be sunny and yes, the forecasters got it right, it was wall to wall sunshine, even though it was blowing a very cold wind from the north on Saturday! So … Continue reading
Braving the Rain in May.
Having almost non stop rain for a month, with a gale or two thrown in, the flowers are still managing to put on a colourful display. The garden is absolutely sodden so there isn’t much that can be done at … Continue reading
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Tagged apple blossom, bluebells, Camassia, Centranthus, Chaenomeles, Darmera, epimedium, erythronium, forget me not, iris, meconopsis, narcissus, pulsatilla, tree peony
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May is Meconopsis time.
May might be Meconopsis time this year, but last year they were flowering at the beginning of April, definitely a month late this year due to our cold, wet spring. Excitement starts as soon as we can see the new … Continue reading
Golden Peony of the Caucasus.
The golden peony that I am talking about is of course Paeonia mlokosewitschii, which is a native of the Caucasus mountains in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Dagestan. It grows there on rocky slopes in oak, hornbeam or beech forests, which makes … Continue reading
It’s all my fault!
OK, I will hold my hands up, I should have realised that I was tempting fate when I wrote a post called April flowers need April showers !! Since then we have had almost non stop rain, Wednesday was when … Continue reading
New Growth for GBFD in April
New growth is all around us at the moment, such lovely fresh greens, copper tones and burgundies which will turn a dull green in the summer, must enjoy them while we can. First thing in the morning, with the low … Continue reading
April flowers need April showers.
We are so used to having rain on and off during the winter months and of course the April showers are well known here in England, that it doesn’t seem the same having it dry day after day. There is … Continue reading
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Tagged April showers, Azalea, camellia, cyclamen repandem, Dicentra, erythronium, iris, kerria japonica, lamium, myosotis, narcissus Pipit, Pansy, primrose, Prunus, Scilla, tulip Abbu Hassan, Tulip sylvestris, veronicamuscari
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Lovely Cowslips multiply.
I have mentioned a few times, that a very dear friend of mine, who sadly died a number of years ago from cancer, gave me 3 plants of cowslips, Primula veris. I planted two of them in the woodland and … Continue reading
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Tagged cowslips, false oxlips, Oxlips, primrose, Primula elatior, Primula veris, Primula vulgaris
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And the garden wore white for Easter.
In January and February all the shady areas of the garden were white with snowdrops, then came the yellow daffodils of March, now in April it changes again as Mother Nature washes everywhere white once more with later narcissus and … Continue reading
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Tagged Amelanchier, bergenia, bluebells, Chaenomeles, Cherry, clematis, Damson, Easter, erythronium, Exochorda, Hawthorn, Iris japonica, N.geranium, Narcissus Thalia, Pachysandra, Pear, Prunus Kojo-no-mai, Spirea, wood anemone
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