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A Multi-Coloured July
For followers of this blog:- I cannot fit any more pictures on this blog, so my new blog has this, my latest, posting complete with all my latest photos https://controllingthegarden.wordpress.com/2016/07/25/a-multi-coloured-july/ You will see that the layout is different on my … Continue reading
Time for a new garden blog
My garden now needs more attention than usual. With the wet weather things are growing bigger on a daily basis. I no longer can get away with a few minutes dead-heading each day. I need to take my big garden … Continue reading
A week away from my garden
Down at the coast: sun, sea and sand Ain’t life just grand? Where do I like most? East or West? Home is Best. “The kiss of the sun for pardon, the song of the birds for mirth. One is closer … Continue reading
Posted in 06 June, 2016, Diary
Tagged Acer Negundo Flamingo, Bees, Blackbirds, Cistus, Clematis Dr Ruppel, Cornwall, Fennel, Foxglove, Fuchsia, Garden, Geranium, Hebe, Holiday, Honeysuckle, Johnson's Blue, Knopfia, Loosestrife, Pansies, Peony, Pinks, Rhododendron, Rose, Summer Jasmine, Sweet Peas, Valerian
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Ribes Sanguineum (Flowering Currant)
Oh Ribes Sanguineum, I love your flush of pink offset against next door’s yellow Forsythia and I just love the fact that you are both obviously competing to get higher. Last year I chopped you down almost level with my … Continue reading
The First Snow of 2016
I have to say it was nice to wake up at about 2am to virgin snow outside my house this morning, but by the time I actually got up at 7.30am there were several car tracks down the road outside. … Continue reading
Dog Basket Planters
I’ve had three hot pink baskets since I’ve been small but now that I’m a grown up dog I don’t fit them at all. Mum planted hot pink petunias in one of them to match, the other baskets have been … Continue reading
Posted in 01 January, 02 February, 03 March, 05 May, 06 June, 07 July, 08 August, 2014, 2015, Bedding Plants, Doggy Ditties, Gardening, My Poems, Vegetables
Tagged Bedding Plants, Bulbs, Busy Lizzies, Compost, Dog, Dog Basket, Garden, Gardening, Heathers, Hot Pink, Pale Pink, Pelargonium, Petunias, Pink, Poems, Purple, Vegetables
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A Room with a View
I like my view from my room with a view but I liked it before others could view it too. Now there are no surprises as I stroll around, very little wildlife and not much bird sound. I can’t help … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, 2014, 2015, Garden Revamp, My Poems, Wildlife
Tagged Ash Trees, Bees, Birds, Climbers, Garden, Shrubs, Trees, Weeds, Willow Herbs, Willow Tree
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Hebe
Oh Hebe, how be thee? How bees love thee. How much you’ve grown. You’ll soon be tree. I planted you when you were the size of a herb Now just look at you, that seems really absurd. You may be … Continue reading
My garden 1st week of July 2015
First days of July were extraordinarily hot. Plants didn’t like it a lot and neither did I. Frazzled we sweltered, dazzled we sheltered as the storm raged in the sky overhead. But it calmed down after that temperatures went back … Continue reading
Posted in 07 July, 2015, Summing up
Tagged Ants, Ash Trees, Astilbe, Blackfly, Buddleia, Busy Lizzies, Campanula, Cistus, Clematis, Cyclamen, Dog, Dog Basket, Dog Run, Eryngium, Erysimum, Fennel, Fuchsia, Garden, Gardener's Delight, Geranium Little Fairy, Honeysuckle, Hydrangea, Jasmine, July, Knopfia, Lavender, Lilies, Moneymaker, Orchid, Oregano, Pear Tree, Pelargonium, Perovskia, Phalaenopsis, Potentilla, Rose, Solanum, Summer Jasmine, Tomatoes, Valerian, Weeds
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Erysimum
Everlasting Erysimum you are a such a star I think that you look good just where you are. You seem to be there in all the photos of mine looking like a purple halo behind my Cordyline.
My Garden Transformation 