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Yearly Archives: 2014
Looking back over 2014.
Looking back over the photos for all of 2014 has shown me that the garden continues to flower even though there are times when I haven’t felt like looking after it. I have had such a lot of help from … Continue reading
Christmas Foliage.
I’m late with my post for Garden Bloggers Foliage Day, sorry Christina, but at this time of year, other things intrude! I’ve been cutting foliage and preparing it over a couple of days and today saw the end result.
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In the Pink.
When I drew the bedroom curtains back this morning, I was surprised to see that the Camellia in the corner of the garden was covered in buds and flowers.
Sheltering indoors. GBBD.
First of all a little bug got to me, not the computer this time, then I had to catch up with writing all my cards and Christmas preparations, at last I’m free to get back to you all! It’s a … Continue reading
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Tagged African violet, christmas cactus, conservatory plants, Cyclamen, Indoor plants
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Back in business.
At last, we are back in touch with the outside world! More gremlins unfortunately, more visits from Talk Talk engineers, BT engineer is supposed to be coming but suddenly everything has started working again so I’m making the most of … Continue reading
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Wonderfully colourful November.
The twenty second of the month is Garden Bloggers Foliage Day. Lots of the leaves have fallen already and the trees and other plants are just the bare skeleton which will last until March when they start sprouting again. Some … Continue reading
The last few Flowers. GBBD.
It was a hard job to find some flowers to photograph for today’s Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, everywhere in the garden is so wet and everywhere looks a mess with plants collapsing all over the place. I went out with … Continue reading
Slowly, slowly.
Slowly, day by day, Acer Osakazuki is changing colour. It is taking such a long time this year, probably because it has stayed warm at night time for so long this year. It is just this last week that we … Continue reading
A wet end to October.
Apologies for being so late with my end of month view, it was written at the end of October but the gremlins have been at work again! Modern technology is fine when it is working properly, but when it goes … Continue reading
Colours of Autumn GBFD.
Gradually the colour green is draining away from some of the leaves in the garden. Underlying colours are starting to emerge as the garden prepares to have it’s final fling of the year. Usually we can rely on fantastic colours … Continue reading