Monthly Archives: July 2014

It has been so hot and dry. EOM view July.

Posted on July 31, 2014 by Pauline

In places, the garden is suffering, when the rhododendron leaves hang down vertically, it is time to give some extra water. As I have mentioned in the past, we are on a water meter and have to pay for every … Continue reading →

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Perfume on the breeze in the night.

Posted on July 26, 2014 by Pauline

Last week when we were having thunder and lightning after we had gone to bed, I woke with the noise and the lightning flashing round the room, someone else slept through it all! Even though the window was wide open, … Continue reading →

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Foliage for July GBFD.

Posted on July 22, 2014 by Pauline

Thanks to Christina, we are now focusing on the foliage in our gardens.  Flowers are everywhere and  it is hard  to focus on the leaves, but some of them are so beautiful, it is a shame they get overlooked in … Continue reading →

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July is the month for …..Day lilies.

Posted on July 18, 2014 by Pauline

More and more day lilies or Hemerocallis, open their flowers during the month of July. They bring such colour to the borders while the roses are having a rest before flowering again. They are so easy to grow and don’t … Continue reading →

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Red, White and Blue. G.B.B.D July

Posted on July 15, 2014 by Pauline

When taking photographs for July’s Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, it dawned on me how many flowers there were in the garden, in the British patriotic colours of red, white and blue. Crocosmia Lucifer has just started flowering up by the … Continue reading →

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It can’t be 48 years!

Posted on July 9, 2014 by Pauline

It can though. Forty eight years ago today, there we were, young and innocent, getting married! We have just had a lovely day out  visiting a garden in the Dartmoor area and then having a fantastic lunch in a nearby … Continue reading →

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Not a flower to be seen, or not many.

Posted on July 4, 2014 by Pauline

In an area which doesn’t feature very often on this blog, are our fruit and vegetables. Even though this is in the highest part of the garden, before we changed it, it was also one of the wettest areas apart … Continue reading →

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