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Category Archives: dahlias
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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Six on Saturday: David, Dorothy and Some Bishops
Most of my dahlias have been flowering for a few weeks, some now prolifically, and with some difficulty have chosen six to share on Jon the Propagator’s weekly meme, starting with David Howard (above) and Dorothy Rose below: Top Totty … Continue reading
Posted in cutting beds, dahlias, Gardening, Gardens, Six on Saturday
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Ina Vase on Monday: Home Fires
Today’s vase contains a number of yesterday’s firsts – the unnamed dahlia, the three calendula varieties (Indian Prince, Sunset Buff and Snow Princess) – and Alstroemeria ‘Indian Summer’, another photographed but unused first, Euphorbia oblongata and a temporarily russet fern. … Continue reading
Posted in annuals, cutting beds, dahlias, Gardening, Gardens, In a Vase on Monday
Tagged flowers in a vase
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Six on Saturday: Firsts
Every ramble this week has brought another first in terms of what has started blooming, with almost all the roses now having begun to flower, but only a few profusely. I was well pleased today, however, to find the first … Continue reading
Posted in cutting beds, dahlias, Gardening, Gardens, Six on Saturday, Summer
Tagged sweet peas
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Six on Saturday: Damage Limitation
Thank you for all the comments about compost during the week; as with all garden problems, it is reassuring to know that many other bloggers have encountered poor quality compost at times too. Thankfully most of us in our blogging … Continue reading
Posted in dahlias, Gardening, Gardens, greenhouse, seed sowing, Six on Saturday
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A Week of Flowers Day Six, 27th November 2020
Blogging friend Cathy of Words and Herbs needed something to cheer herself up and, guessing that others might be feeling the same, suggested that from Sunday the 22nd through to Saturday the 28th of November we shared one or more … Continue reading
Posted in A week of flowers, dahlias, Gardens
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Six on Saturday: Always Something to Do
Hairdressers and barbers may now be closed again here in England due to Lockdown #2, but trimming of the hedge still continues, and the Golfer has moved on to the section that needs most work, that behind the special snowdrop … Continue reading
Posted in Autumn, cutting beds, dahlias, garden pests, Gardening, Gardens, Six on Saturday, snowdrops
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End of a Leafy Month View
October has been an increasingly leafy month and a wet one too, with our weather monitor telling us it has been the wettest month of the year so far, with 140mm of rain (5.5inches). Unlike February which was nearly as … Continue reading
Posted in Autumn, cutting beds, dahlias, End of Month View, Gardening, Gardens, greenhouse, Weather
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Still Blooming After All This Time
Without a fixed date of posting top blooms each month, it becomes a random combination of when I think about it and when I have the time, in or around the third or fourth week, but it continues to form … Continue reading
In a Vase on Monday: Blackfield, Black Gate
I started gathering blooms for today’s vase, cutting several stems of Dahlia ‘Geoffrey Kent’ and a few from D ‘Bishop of Llandaff’, before heading off to look for some grasses to include and being sidetracked by Persicaria ‘Fat Domino’, before … Continue reading
