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Six on Saturday 02. 04. 22
From T shirts back to winter jumpers and a gardening coat and I’m still cold when I go outside! I managed a bit of gardening yesterday, cutting back and weeding in the back gravel area so that I was sheltered … Continue reading
The calm before another storm.
Having been warned that there is another large storm heading across the Atlantic towards us, I made the most of a nice sunny day to take some photos before the storm hits us and maybe flattens everything!
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Tagged Crocus, Cyclamen, February bulbs, February flowers, narcissus, snowdrops
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Much needed sunshine. GBBD February 2019.
After our blip of snow and ice a couple of weeks ago, it is so wonderful at the moment to have the sun shining each day and temperatures about 5 or 6 degrees warmer. Wandering around the garden yesterday, without … Continue reading
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Tagged Cyclamen, Early spring flowers, February flowers, hellebores, narcissus, snowdrops, winter flowers
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Just in time.
Ladies from the village WI. came for coffee, cake and biscuits yesterday, they also came to have a wander round the garden to see the snowdrops and other lovlies that are flowering at the moment. The weather behaved itself with … Continue reading
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Tagged Cyclamen, February flowers, hellebores, iris, snowdrops, woodland plants
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Looking good at the moment.
Some of the garden is still looking stressed after our really hot, dry summer, but in certain areas there are delights to be found, plants that are doing really well, or even doing much better than usual. The first is … Continue reading
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Tagged Amelanchier lamarckii, Colchicum, Cyclamen, Erigeron, fuchsias, grasses, plants that like the heat, Yucca
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Come in from the cold.
I like to have bulbs flowering in the conservatory at this time of year. The conservatory is only kept frost free, with a little heater that keeps the temperature at +5C during the night, during the day it just has … Continue reading
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Tagged conservatory plants, Cyclamen, hyacinths, indoor bulbs, Iris reticulata, narcissus, Pelargonium
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Thank goodness for self seeding drifts.
Looking back over 2015 has made me realise that we haven’t been able to do much gardening! Unfortunately health problems got in the way with the Undergardener having to go for his Prostate Cancer treatment and all his other hospital … Continue reading
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Tagged bluebells, cowslips, Crocus, Cyclamen, hellebores, meconopsis, narcissus, primrose, self seeding, snakeshead fritillaries, snowdrops
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GBFD Foliage for November.
Sorry I’m late, due to circumstances beyond my control, but here is my offering for Foliage Day in November, which was written last Saturday. It’s a question of dodging the showers or rather, the downpours and the gales, to take … Continue reading
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Tagged Acers, Coloured leaves in november, Cyclamen, deciduous foliage, evergreen foliage
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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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The Woodland in March. EOMV.
The white of the snowdrops has changed into the yellow of the narcissus, which means that the woodland looks totally different now that the warm sunshine has finished off the flowers of the snowdrops and crocus. Each day when I … Continue reading
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Tagged Cyclamen, Fritillaria meleagris, fritillaries, March flowers, narcissus, snowflakes, Tulip sylvestris, woodland, woodland gardening
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