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Six on Saturday. 9.12.2023
More rain, more floods, but we had a much drier day yesterday for a change. The previous day, Thursday we had almost all Decembers rain in one day, then it dried up just in time to give us the most … Continue reading
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Tagged camellia, Crocus, Galanthus Little John, Iris reticulata, Iris unguicularis, sunset
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Six on Saturday. 4/03/2023.
Another cold week, with not much sunshine this time, even more cold to come next week with maybe some snow when the cold air from the Arctic meets the warm air from the Equator over the south west of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Corydalis solida, Hellebore, Iris reticulata, narcissus, saxigrage
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Six on Saturday. 11/ 02/ 2023
Another week of freezing nights and mostly sunny days, a lot of the mornings have seen the snowdrops and hellebores collapsed to the ground, but by lunch time they are bright and perky, standing upright once more. I was getting … Continue reading
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Tagged Crocus, daphne, Galanthus, Iris reticulata, narcissus, Winter aconite
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Welcome February 2023.
The weather this last week has been milder, thank goodness and working in the woodland, in the sunshine, has been an absolute pleasure. I finally got all the leaves cleared from where the special snowdrops are planted, pulled up miles … Continue reading
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Tagged Chaenomeles, Cyclamen coum, Galanthus, Hellebore, Iris reticulata, Iris unguicularis
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Six on Saturday. 21.01.2023
Well, that was a cold week and Wednesday such a strange day, I think we had every bit of weather just in one day. I woke up to snow, then we had a bit of sunshine, rain which then turned … Continue reading
Six on Saturday. 3.12.22.
We have had a sudden change in the weather this week, much more how it should be now that it is winter. We have changed from warm and wet to frost and fog, the last two days have started out … Continue reading
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Tagged Berberis, Chaenomeles, Cotoneaster horizontalis, Iris reticulata, rose hips
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Six on Saturday 8.1.2022
With one lovely sunny day on Wednesday , in a week of lots more rain, I was able to get into the garden and prepare the bed for snowdrop flowering which backs onto the woodland. It was a pleasure to … Continue reading
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Tagged camellia, Chaenomeles, clematis, garrya elliptica, Iris reticulata, Iris unguicularis
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Six on Saturday 27. 11. 21
Our local weather forecaster told us that the storm would arrive at 3 am and become calmer by 9 am. I woke suddenly at 3.10 am and the noise of the wind howling through the trees was horrendous, I didn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Chaenomeles, Ilex Golden King, Iris reticulata, Mahonia, Pampas grass, Viburnum bodnantense Dawn
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What a difference!
The snow has finally all gone, today the sun was shing and the sky a beautiful blue! At last I could get out and check on all my lovely winter flowers, no coat needed as it was nicely warm and … Continue reading
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Tagged Chaenomeles, Crocus, daphne, February flowers, Iris reticulata, narcissus, snowdrops
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It’s not just snowdrops that brave the weather.
It’s not all about snowdrops at the moment. All of a sudden I noticed a patch of colour on the raised bed in the back garden, tiny Iris reticulata were flowering in spite of the gale howling through the trees … Continue reading