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Project 2020
This is a project that has been in the making for such a long time, simply because I kept putting it off, so I decided to bite the bullet and get on with it this year, now that I am … Continue reading
New month, new plants.
I feel a rockery should be a riot of colour in the spring, meteorologically it is now spring, it started yesterday, but our rockery behind the alpine scree is quite frankly….boring! One clump of narcissus is certainly not a riot … Continue reading
More colour in the bog.
Just a short time after writing the post about the bog garden, there is now more colour with the reds, oranges, yellows and purples joining in.
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Tagged Boggy soil, candelabra primulas, primulas, rodgersia, zantedeschia
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Doomed, but not for long!
I had the wonderful idea of ordering some lovely plants the other day, for my new area. In the past there hasn’t been any problem, you click the button, pay by debit or credit card, sit back , wait 48 … Continue reading
An amazing afternoon.
Last Saturday we had the most amazing afternoon visiting a garden in Devon, or actually one garden was in Devon and the other, next door, was in Somerset! I found it in the Yellow Book for the National Garden Scheme. … Continue reading
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Tagged devon garden, National Garden Scheme, old railway line, primulas, railway artifacts, sculptures, Somerset garden, Venn Cross, Yellow Book
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Blooming marvellous!
The weather this month has been very variable. Lots of very cold winds, coming from the east, a bit of sunshine which became very hot and humid a couple of days ago, coming up from Africa. Then it all went … Continue reading
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Tagged bog plants in June, clematis, climbers in June, flowering shrubs in June, June flowers, Paeonies, perennials in June, poppies, primulas, roses
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June’s bounty ! GBBD.
It’s difficult to know where to start, there are so many flowers all vying for attention this Garden Bloggers Bloom Day. I think I’ll start in the front with some oriental poppies in the Bee and Butterfly border. This one … Continue reading
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Tagged Arum, bulbs for June, flowering shrubs, June flowers, perennials, primulas, roses
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May has flown by. EOMV.
The woodland is much the same as last month, I’ve not got any more new planting done as I’ve been concentrating on trying to get the borders weeded in the main garden. With all the rain we have had, at … Continue reading
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Tagged astilbes, bog garden, bog plants, Ferns, hostas, iris, plants for wet, primulas, rodgersia, Zantedeschia aethiopica
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Rainbow for June and July
The bog garden, which is formed by an underground stream, certainly comes into it’s own at the beginning of June when flowers start bursting out along the length of the border. There are all the colours of the rainbow, red, … Continue reading
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Tagged alpicola, aurantiaca, bog garden, bulleesiana, candelabra primulas, Ferns, hostas, Inverewe, iris, meconopsisa, plants for damp soil, Postford White, primulas, rheum palmatum, Zantedeschia aethiopica
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Spring lasted for 2 days!
Spring was lovely while it lasted, all of 2 days! What a difference it made, to be able to garden without a jacket, feeling the warm sunshine on your back with the birds singing away proclaiming their territory and the … Continue reading
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Tagged cardamine, Chaenomeles, corydalis, cowslip, Crocus, euphorbia, frogspawn, Hellebore, narcissus, primulas, pulmonaria, snowdrops, Witch hazel, ypsilandra
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