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Tag Archives: Greenhouse
My garden last week of May 2016
I really love May time when leaves all turn to lime. May brought more flowers yet my empty water butt was soon refilled again with torrential rain. There was no fear of drought as hailstones bounced about. Pear blossom has … Continue reading
Posted in 05 May, 2016, Diary, Plant of the Month
Tagged Allium, Campanula, Clematis The President, Geranium Little Fairy, Greenfly, Greenhouse, Heuchera, Knopfia, Lilac, Magnolia, Pear Tree, Seedlings, Solanum, Tulips, Valerian, Whitefly
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Am I an April Fool?
It just takes a bit of sun to get me out in my patch trimming and thinking what plans I can hatch. Having looked at the forecast for the next ten days, with temperatures not forecast to drop below 1°, … Continue reading
Posted in 04 April, 2016, Diary
Tagged Acer, Aubretia, Ceanothus, Clematis Markham's Pink, Clematis Montana, Daffodils, Dicentra, Dog Basket, Erysimum, Forsythia, Fritillaria, Fuchsia, Greenhouse, Hydrangea, Magnolia, Pansies, Pear Tree, Pieris, Polyanthus, Ribes, Seeds, Tulips, Violets
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Mad about March
Bye bye Iris, you’ve gone back to bed I fear. You were flowering for so long out here but you came out to see us much later last year. Oh Daff, I see you’ve finished flowering too. How surprised and … Continue reading
Posted in 03 March, 2016, Diary
Tagged Anemone, Crocus, Daffodils, Dicentra, Dog Basket, Erysimum, Greenhouse, Heathers, Hebe, Muscari, Ornamental Cabbages, Pansies, Pieris, Polyanthus, Pulmonaria, Purple Iris, Ribes, Sempervivium, Spring bulbs, Violas, Window boxes
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Joyless Jaded January
I cannot say that there has been much during January to inspire me to either photograph or write about my garden. However, just so that I have some photographic and anecdotal evidence to compare year on year, I took a … Continue reading
Posted in 01 January, 2016, Diary, Uncategorized
Tagged Crocus, Daffodils, Dog Basket, Erysimum, Forsythia, Greenhouse, Heathers, Pansies, Polyanthus, Pulmonaria, Ribes, Skimmia, Snow, Snowdrops, Viburnum, Vinca, Violas, Weather, Winter, Winter Jasmine
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Dull, Damp December and Decking
It has been the warmest December since records began, so they say. I am not surprised. Daytime temperatures have been anything from 10 degrees up to 17 degrees for a good deal of the time. However, south westerly winds have … Continue reading
Posted in 12 December, 2015, Diary
Tagged Decking, Dog Basket, Dog Run, Greenhouse, Pink, Veranda, Water Butt, Weather
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Preparing for Winter
Well December has started off unseasonably warm and with no forecast of rain until the evening I was able to go out yesterday in the 13 degrees or so sunshine and treat my new greenhouse with clear Ronseal Garden Furniture … Continue reading
Posted in 12 December, 2015, Diary
Tagged Cuprinol, Dog Run, Fence, Gate, Greenhouse, Ronseal
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A New Greenhouse
Having lived with many plastic mini greenhouses over the years, I decided it would be nice to have a better one to use during my retirement, so for my birthday my son bought me a nice Victorian lean to wooden … Continue reading
My garden after the first week of September
Mistier mornings, later dawnings, earlier evenings big red moonings! Trees dropping leaves snails leaving trails fungus sprouting water spouting. What lurks in the dewy jewelled lace glistening now all over the place? Suspended in the centre they wait, silent, stretching … Continue reading
Posted in 09 September, 2015, My Poems, Summing up
Tagged Bees, Busy Lizzies, Butterflies, Cyclamen, Diascia, Dog Basket, Frogs, Fuchsia, Greenhouse, Heathers, Michaelmas Daisies, Pelargonium, Petunias, Potentilla, Sedum, Snails, Spiders, Spring bulbs, Tomatoes
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My Garden Transformation 