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Category Archives: cutting beds
Six on Saturday: Snip Snip Snip
There has been a lot of snipping going on around here recently, with cutting back, down or out beginning in the borders during the week but, more excitingly, our neighbours on the hedge side had workers in the garden today … Continue reading
Ina Vase on Monday: Airy Fairy
No doubt I have used this title before in a previous post, but it suited the lighter and more delicate stems of the contents of this Monday’s vase, a contrast to the chunkier and more dominant dahlias and zinnias that … Continue reading
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In a Vase on Monday: Single But Happy
Many blooms in the garden are increasingly on borrowed time, partly in the knowledge that we could have frosts at any time (although this didn’t happen until early in November in the last two years) and partly because annuals have … Continue reading
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In a Vase on Monday: Optimism
This week, after a very dry August, we had three consecutive humid days with temperatures in the low 30s, then followed by a short and torrential downpour on Thursday, for which I was very grateful and I am sure the … Continue reading
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Tagged flowers in a vase, sunflower
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In a Vase on Monday: Bejewelled
I promised I would take advantage of the wonderful Giant Dahlia Mix zinnias sometime soon and feature them in vase on Monday, so here they are today. Uploading the photographs in readiness for the post I realised I had barely … Continue reading
Surprising and Not So Surprising
I was astonished this week to find a bloom on agapanthus grown from HPS seed sown in January 2019, especially as I am still awaiting blooms on agapanthus from seed collected some years prior to this. I have no idea … Continue reading
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Tagged pruning wisteria
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In a Vase on Monday: It’s the Eyes…
As has been the case in recent weeks, choosing the contents of today’s vase was not an easy one, although with two additional posies required for people or places at the same time I could at least share more of … Continue reading
Posted in annuals, cutting beds, Gardening, Gardens, In a Vase on Monday
Tagged annual rudbeckia
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In a Vase on Monday: the Spanner in the Billiard Room
Beginning to pick blooms for today’s vase, I was struck with their sheer redness, especially Dahlia ‘Bishop of Llandaff’, which somehow brought to mind Miss Scarlett from the board game Cluedo, hence the additional props of the spanner and the … Continue reading
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In a Vase on Monday: Sunshine on a Cloudy Day
I would much rather be making a notional nod towards the lyrics ‘Sunshine on a rainy day’ in my title, but sadly we have still not had any rain to compensate for a week of 30° temperatures. The cloudier skies … Continue reading
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Tagged flowers in a vase
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In a Vase on Monday: Sizzling
It really has been sizzling here in the last few days, with temperatures hovering around 30°, making gardening tasks sticky and uncomfortable. With our second and last group visit to the garden planned for Tuesday, deadheading, staking and tying back … Continue reading
Posted in annuals, cutting beds, dahlias, Gardening, Gardens, In a Vase on Monday, Summer, Weather
Tagged flowers in a vase
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