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Six on Saturday. 25.5.2024
Another week of mixed weather, a bit of everything in fact, including thunder and lightning and the flowers keep coming, no matter what. I have managed a bit of gardening most days, but the weeds are still winning at the … Continue reading
May Abundance.
May is on fast forward at the moment. after the cooler than usual April which has held flowers back a bit, it is all change now that we have warm sunshine every day with everything trying to flower all at … Continue reading
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Tagged Azalea, Clemaris, Cotinus, hesperis matronalis, Hosta, iris, rhododendron, Rogersia, Viburnum
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Six on Saturday 21.05.2022
After a week of rain and sunshine, sometimes quite heavy rain, the plants are shooting up and so are the weeds! Weeding though is a lot easier when the ground is so damp, especially all the docks that seem to … Continue reading
Six on Saturday 14. 05. 2022
Another week gone by, more weeds have been pulled, more plants planted and a lot of rain came on Wednesday so I had a rest from watering! Everything is growing at an alarming rate, I just wish I could keep … Continue reading
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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The sun shone for the snowdrops!
The forecast for yesterday was good, sunny but cold with the wind coming straight from the Arctic! I made some biscuits, baked a cake, bought some chocolate biscuits, hoovered, dusted and cleaned the loo, then sat back and waited for … Continue reading
The Bog is waking from it’s Winter Slumbers..
All winter the bog garden slumbers away with not a sign of the delights to come later in the year. Nearly all the plants die back to nothing, some disappear altogether, so there is nothing to tempt me to go … Continue reading
The beauty of a bog!
When we moved here 25 yrs ago, I didn’t know much about gardening, it has been a very steep learning curve and I’m still learning. We discovered that part of the garden never dries out, even in the summer when … Continue reading
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Tagged bog planting, candelabra primulas, Ferns, hostas, iris, Zantedeschia aethiopica
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P.I.P.s in May.
May is the month for ebullient flowering, the garden will be overflowing with flowers that are definitely OTT! The Pips in question are the flamboyant Peonies, Iris and Poppies and they are joined by Rhododendrons and Azaleas, but they will … Continue reading
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Tagged Dwarf Iris, iris, May flowers, Molly the Witch, paeony Mlokosewitschii, peonies, poppies, tree peonies, Welsh poppy
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January treasures for GBBD.
At the moment, the sun is shining, the sky is a brilliant blue, the wind is blowing and everywhere is very wet from torrential rain overnight. We have escaped the awful weather of the last few days, when other places … Continue reading
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Tagged flowering shrubs, iris, January flowers, snowdrops, winter flowers
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