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Yearly Archives: 2016
We’re Back!
Back in touch with the World Wide Web I mean! We suddenly had the plug pulled on us by Talk Talk on 27th November after they told us that we had approached another provider. Not true we said, we have … Continue reading
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Tagged Talk Talk, winter flowering bulbs, winter flowering shrubs, winter flowers
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Foliage for November GBFD.
Foliage becomes more and more important once the flowers are winding down for the winter. After a good autumn weatherwise, we were blessed with wonderful autumn tints, I think the best ever. Most of these have been blown away by … Continue reading
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Tagged autumn foliage, coloured foliage, deciduous foliage, fallen leaves, leaf mould
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Hanging on. GBBD November.
There aren’t many flowers still blooming in the garden, a couple of frosts have seen to that, but there a few stalwarts still hanging on in there.
Frost and Fungi.
Our first frost came at the weekend and our second was last night, but that didn’t amount to much, but thank goodness all the tender plants were safely tucked away keeping nice and warm. Frost though has a beauty all … Continue reading
More colour.
Yes more colour, but this time not from my Acers. As the days go by, the garden has a lovely golden glow about it. More and more plants are changing from green to gold and a few from green to … Continue reading
Acers are Ace !
The wonderful changing colours of the Acers have appeared earlier this year than previously. Usually I am hoping for them to change in October, but have to be patient until November. This year though, we had quite a long dry … Continue reading
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Tagged Acer Osakazuki, Acers, autumn colours, autumn tints, coloured foliage, colourful leaves
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Colours of Autumn. GBFD October 2016.
The sunny, cold spell we had a week ago has certainly helped to develop the autumnal colours which are now in the garden. Some leaves unfortunately have shrivelled and dropped early with the long spell of dry weather that we … Continue reading
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Tagged autumn foliage, autumn tints, colours of autumn, evergreen foliage, October foliage
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The Larder is Full.
Looking round the garden recently made me realise that at the moment we have plenty of food for the birds and small mammals to enjoy, in the form of berries. As long as they don’t eat them all at once, … Continue reading
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Tagged autumn berries, berries for little mammals, berries for the birds, Berries for winter
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Winding down. GBBD October 2016.
Colder weather has been coming from the East and shorter days are making it feel really autumnal. Now it’s all change, with the wind from the SW bringing much needed rain. Flowers are now in shorter supply than previously, the … Continue reading