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Tag Archives: narcissus
January, Garden Bloggers Bloom Day.
One New Year’s decision was to take part in GBBD for the first time. This time last year it wouldn’t have been possible because everywhere was under a foot of snow, this year it is a very different story, with … Continue reading
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Tagged camellia, Chaenomeles, choisya, Convolvulous cneorum, garrya, hellebores, iris, Mahonia, narcissus, sarcococca, snowdrops, Snowflake
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May flowers.
At last, we in the UK have had some serious rain and the garden now looks so fresh and green again. My water butts are now full once more, we are on a water meter here and have to pay … Continue reading
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Tagged bluebells, Californian Iris, Camassia, Cytisus, Dicentra, epimedium, Exachorda, Iris japonica, Meconopsis cambricaLewisia, narcissus, Paeonia, Rose, Solomons Seal, Viola cornuta
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A Host of Yellow and White
Narcissus started flowering a month ago and it was as if someone had picked up yellow pigment on a brush and washed it over half the garden. Where we used to have white everywhere from the snowdrops, it is now … Continue reading
And still they come.
Wave after wave of beautiful flowers in such a mixture of colours, it seems a never ending rainbow is marching across the garden
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Tagged bergenia, brunnera, corydalis, cowslips, fritillaria, hyacinth, muscari, narcissus, primulas, pulmonaria, snowdrop, wood anemone
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Has Spring arrived ?
It is wonderful to be able to work in the woodland with no overcoat. The sun is so hot, it is almost T shirt weather – well maybe not just yet!!
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Tagged bees, cardamine pratensis, Crocus, frogspawn, grapehyacinth, Hellebore, iris, Ladybird, narcissus, pulmonaria, snowdrop
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Snowdrop Pilgrimage
At last I managed to persuade my husband that he really wanted to go and see the snowdrop collection at Colesbourne Park in Gloucestershire, and what a wonderful day it turned out to be. Weather was a bit dull and … Continue reading
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Tagged aconite, Colesbourne Park, Crocus, Cyclamen, Elwes.., hellebores, iris, narcissus, Scilla, snowdrops, snowflakes
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Early Flowering Companions
Snowdrops have been centre stage for some time now and beautiful though they are, there are lots of other flowers now blooming away, doing their best to attract the bees that are brave enough to venture out in our winter … Continue reading
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Tagged Crocus, cyclamencoum, Garrya eliptica, Iris reticulata, Luzula., Mahonia, narcissus, Snowflake, Winter aconite
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Spring brings early blooms — and a molehill invasion
We were away for the whole of January teaching at a mission in Sierra Leone and while we were away the moles had a field day. In the past we have had one or two mole hills which we have … Continue reading
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Tagged bluebells, hellebores, molehills, moles, narcissus, primroses, snowdrops, spring
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