Category Archives: News
Foliage for February. GBFD.
I wasn’t optimistic when I went into the garden this morning to take photos of foliage for Christina’s foliage day, I know, I’m a day late, everything was looking very bedraggled after all the rain yesterday and overnight. Some parts … Continue reading
Hellebore time.
The month of February is well known for it’s snowdrops, but also flowering now and for the next month or so, are the beautiful hellebores. They come in such a variety of colours and shapes these days, you must see … Continue reading
Flowers for February.
In spite of the frosts that we have been having, there are still flowers in the garden which don’t seem to mind the low temperatures. A lot of the flowers that we had last month, which were flowering out of … Continue reading
Second Wave of Snowdrops.
The first wave of early snowdrops are now finished and the second wave is taking over. There have been problems with all the frost that we have had in the past week or 10 days, the hybrids just collapse onto … Continue reading
Temperature problems.
When the temperature drops below freezing, as it has lately, hellebores and large snowdrops show that they aren’t happy by collapsing on the ground. As soon as the temperature rises a bit, to above zero, the flower stems right themselves … Continue reading
An Award from Lyn.
I really must thank Lyn at http://theamateurweeder.blogspot.com for kindly awarding me a Versatile Blogger award. I’m afraid I do have a problem when it comes to fulfilling all the requirements. We are asked to reveal 7 new bits of … Continue reading
Frost at last!
At last, winter has arrived in Devon, we have been having frosty nights and icy mornings. Nowhere near as bad as some parts of the country, but at least it feels as it should at this time of year , … Continue reading
Hunting for Hellebores.
Keeping all the snowdrops company at the moment are the beautiful Hellebores that are flowering in the woodland and all the shady borders. So many fascinating new cultivars are being introduced to the market all the time, so when I … Continue reading
It’s Snowdrop Time!
To a lot of people snowdrops are all the same, I thought this for many, many years, until I once visited a garden which had lots of really different varieties and fell under their spell. There are still species snowdrops … Continue reading
Free Cornus Hedge.
Some of you may remember last month , when clipping the Cornus bushes to make our Christmas decorations, the stems of Cornus alba sibirica Westonbirt which I put in a white vase.