Six on Saturday. 14.01.2023.

Posted on January 14, 2023 by Pauline

What a lovely day yesterday was, after a week of almost non stop rain. I made a  start on tackling all the leaves that are down in the woodland, clearing away the worst from round all my special snowdrops so that they can be seen to their best advantage. The blackbirds and robins soon came to join me as they could then find all the little wriggling things that were now exposed. Lots of bulbs are now almost flowering, soon the woodland will be looking very pretty once more, in the meantime, here are my 6 for this week.

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The first of my drumstick primulas is rashly starting to flower just as the weather is going to turn colder once more.

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Six on Saturday. 07.01.2023

Posted on January 7, 2023 by Pauline

We have had a mixed week of weather, lots of rain but I have been able to get out into the garden on a couple of days to continue the big tidy up. I am way behind where I usually am at this time of year as I haven’t a gardener at the moment and am having to do everything myself. The gardener that I thought I had found a few weeks ago, sent me an email a couple of weeks before Christmas telling me that “due to unforseen circumstances, he couldn’t work for me any more” and this was before I had mentioned the chopping down of all my Cornus, I never got a chance to talk that through with him! Since then I have been struggling with raking all the leaves and cutting back where necessary. In the meantime flowers are still popping open so these are my six for this week……

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Six on Saturday plus a few more. 31. 12. 2022

Posted on December 31, 2022 by Pauline

This post will be done in bits and pieces between my son and DIL going  back home from here after Christmas and me coming back from a couple of days with the rest of my family in Bristol. I’m finding that plants flowering now are much better than previously, I’m thinking because of the heat and sun in the summer, they had a really good baking which they obviously liked, but also while wandering round I’ve noticed that all my hardy fuchsias are looking very sorry for themselves, presumably because of our freezing temperatures for 2 weeks recently, but they will sprout from the ground again, I’m sure.

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Iris unguicularis under the dining room window. This plant faces south and benefits from the warmth of the wall behind it. This is its best year for flowering, I’m assuming because it got baked last summer in the heat, I’ve never before had so many flowers out all at once.

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Six on Saturday. 17.12.2022

Posted on December 17, 2022 by Pauline

After a week of very heavy frosts, with Thursday night getting down to -9C, there are not many flowers left in the garden, and those that are still there, are not worth photographing! So this weeks six are a couple of frosty shots and the rest are indoor flowers, either in the kitchen or the conservatory. I’ll start with my frosty shots from a very cold Friday morning.

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Purple Berberis looking decidedly frosty.

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Six on Saturday. 10.12.2022

Posted on December 10, 2022 by Pauline

It’s snowing! I didn’t think I would have anything to show you this week, but at 8am this morning Nature thought differently so out I went to take a few photographs, by the time I came in I was looking a bit like a snowman myself! For us here in Devon, to have snow in December is very unusual, if it does happen it is usually just Dartmoor that catches it, not this time though, I wonder how long it will last.

In the meantime, lets show you what I saw early this morning……..

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The view from my gateway looking across the fields.

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Six on Saturday. 3.12.22.

Posted on December 3, 2022 by Pauline

We have had a sudden change in the weather this week, much more how it should be now that it is winter. We have changed from warm and wet to frost and fog, the last two days have started out really foggy. Thursday the fog didn’t lift all day, the sun only finally breaking through just in time to set, so annoying when travelling through the next village and town and they had wall to wall sunshine all day! The frost has been quite hard so hopefully all the nasties are getting dealt with at last.

My six for this week are…….

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Cotoneaster horizontalis has now joined in with the autumn tints, although these are now winter tints! All the berries have gone and soon all thse leaves will have vanished too.

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Six on Saturday. 26. 11. 2022

Posted on November 26, 2022 by Pauline

A lovely sunny day yesterday meant I could take some photos for SOS without it pouring down! After a week of almost non stop rain, the leaves have been blown into submission and the grass has amazingly been cut, for a short time the garden is looking almost tidy, until the next strong wind, probably today. Some autumn colour still remains so I’ll start with that.

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First of all a general view across the back garden where Acer Osakazuki is still grabbing attention in the far corner even though she has lost most of her leaves by now.

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Six on Saturday. 19. 11. 2022

Posted on November 19, 2022 by Pauline

Another warm week has gone by with showers and sunshine, its been more like September than November and the grass has kept growing and the leaves keep falling. I am spending most of my time raking leaves to rot down in a corner of the woodland and make wonderful leaf mould. I look at my huge trees and see that there are still so many leaves to come down, I will be at it for a good few more weeks. In the meantime, lets see what is standing out in the garden at the moment.

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I’ll start with a tree that I have by the front drive, which I think is a cross between and English oak and an American beech, each year we get lovely orange leaves before they fall.

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Six on Saturday 5.11.2022

Posted on November 5, 2022 by Pauline

Today is very wet and I think that is how it will stay for the rest of the day, so I don’t think any gardening will get done. It is still very warm for this time of year and the plants are still confused. I saw a rabbit in the garden first thing this morning, but it had vanished by the time I got the camera, hope it doesn’t set up home here, they did once before and did untold damage to my plants! Time for Six on Saturday, here are mine…………

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The Cotinus in the back garden is putting on its autumnal finery and looking rather lovely at the moment.

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Six on Saturday, 29/10/2022

Posted on October 29, 2022 by Pauline

Another week of sunshine and showers with unusually high temperatures for this time of year. Flowers are getting harder to find to photograph, leaves are everywhere and need raking up, supposed to be good for the waistline! My six are as follows.

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Two large bags of gravel arrived mid week for the new area up at the top of the garden, just all needs spreading now!

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