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Six on Saturday 24. 7. 21
Having gone from one extreme to the other, from temperatures in the teens with rain every day, to temperatures soaring up to 30 C and even 31 C this week, I have been melting away because I’m just not used … Continue reading
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Tagged Acanthus mollis, Clematis Perle D'Azur, crocosmia, Honeysuckle, Inula helenium, Trachelospermum asiaticum
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Six on Saturday 17.07.21
The rain has stopped and now we have a heatwave, from one extreme to the other! I hate to say it but it is too hot for me, I’m having to plan my gardening from very early when I get … Continue reading
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Tagged buddlia, Crocosmia Lucifer, Hosta sieboldiana, Iris ensata, Rosa Golden Wedding, Thalictrum
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Day lilies – the new bog plants
Where my garden keeps getting flooded is planted with rather a lot of Hemerocallis or Day Lilies. I hadn’t realised when I planted them many years ago, that they liked water so much. They spent most of the winter sitting … Continue reading
Six on Saturday 10.7.21
Once more the garden is changing gear, a lot of the poppies, iris and peonies, but not all, have finished and are handing over to Hydrangeas, Hemerocallis and Crocosmia. The colours are changing with Hemerocallis and Crocosmia, their flowers are … Continue reading
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Tagged astilbe, clematis, crocosmia, hemerocallis, hydrangea, Shasta Daisy
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Looking a bit purple
While assessing how the newish planting in the rockery was doing, I realised that quite a few of the plants were in the purple spectrum and they all seemed to be in the centre of the rockery. I will have … Continue reading
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Tagged Allium christophii, Clematis pagoda, Digitalis, geranium, Linaria, Papaver somniferum
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Six on Saturday 3.7.21
This week, for my Six on Saturday, I’ll be concentrating on the roses that didn’t appear in my earlier rose post. Two are huge ramblers, two are climbers and two are shrub roses that didn’t wake up with the rest. … Continue reading
The June Meadow.
My circular meadow is coming along nicely, or I think so anyway. The grasses are growing, the buttercups and daisies are making a wall to wall carpet and other wild flowers are popping up. Some I have seen in previous … Continue reading
Six on Saturday. 26.06.21
This week I’ve tried to find six plants that haven’t been shown previously in a recent posts, it wasn’t easy! The wind and the rain that we had this last week have taken their toll and there has been a … Continue reading
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Tagged Candelabra primula, clematis, Digitalis, philadelphus, roses, Stipa
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An abundance of roses everywhere.
Wherever I look at the moment, roses are flowering as never before, have they enjoyed our strange weather, I don’t know, but whatever it is that has made them flower so much, I’m very pleased with the result. Come for … Continue reading
Six on Saturday 19.06.21
It’s time for P.I.Ps to take centre stage, or they can try but the roses outshine everything else at the moment. The P.I.Ps that I’m talking about are the poppies, iris and peonies that fill a gap which sometimes appear … Continue reading