Tag Archives: Azalea
Six on Saturday. 17.05.2025
Another week has flown by with more sunshine and no more rain until, hopefully, next weekend. There were so many flowers all calling to have their photo taken yesterday, which to use and which to leave out, that is the … Continue reading
Six on Saturday. 10.05.2025
Another very sunny week but with a cold east wind, not T shirt weather any more! Tonight will bring thunderstorms from the south so that should be interesting and the rain could carry on for Sunday and Monday, not to … Continue reading
Six on Saturday. 11.5.2024.
We have had week of sunshine with just the odd shower thrown in, it has been wonderful, such a change! I’m having to get used to getting the watering can out as I can’t rely on the weather for watering … Continue reading
Six on Saturday. 20.4.2024.
We have had a dry week! I can’t remember the last time this happened, but it has been wonderful to get out into the garden and do some work at last in the warm, if not hot sunshine, warm enought … 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
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
Six on Saturday 21.05.21
It’s Rhododendron time once more, mine are a bit late this year, due no doubt to our very cold spell in April and continuing this month. Last year at this time all the rhododendrons were flowering and all the roses … Continue reading
A slow, slow, worms eye view.
It was the under gardener’s birthday last week and we went to Cornwall for the day looking for steam trains. After having a ride behind one we made our way to the Plume of Feathers Inn where we had a … Continue reading
A gradual change of colour for GBFD.
Taking photographs for this month’s Foliage Day was a question of dodging the showers, sometimes they were quite light but at others it was torrential rain. A gradual change is coming over the garden, a more golden tint to the … Continue reading
June abundance.
In spite of the awful weather we have been having for a while now, the flowers are bursting open all over the place. Thank goodness, the night we had dreadful gales, there wasn’t much damage done. Lots of branches and … Continue reading