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Category Archives: grasses
Out to Grass
Over the last few days I have been digging out the contents of one of the Bold Borders, emptying it in preparation for its new guise as a grass border and buying the new contents to fill it, mostly from … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Gardens, grasses, projects
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Six on Saturday: In One Fell Swoop…
… the character of the woodland has been destroyed… Our neighbour on the hedge side came to the door a week or so ago to say they were planning on replacing part of the hedge at the bottom end of … Continue reading
Posted in boundaries, early spring, Gardening, Gardens, grasses, pruning, seed sowing, Six on Saturday, snowdrops, woodland
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In a Vase on Monday: Tufty
I have so enjoyed the bright green carex in last week’s vase, still looking just as vibrant seven days later, that I decided to continue the grassy theme today. Instead of cutting a grass this week though, I dug up … Continue reading
In a Vase on Monday: Home is Where the Heart Is
Today’s vase was inspired by the heart-shaped pebble found when I was bagging up the cobbles previously used around the base of the roses on the paved area to deter weeds, but recently lifted and washed. Notwithstanding its unusual shape, … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Gardens, grasses, In a Vase on Monday, winter interest
Tagged flowers in a vase
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A Few Things on Sunday
I seem to have been playing catch-up or catch-forward a lot recently, with several posts scheduled ahead and concentrated blitzing of replying to comments when time allowed, and I apologise for my overall neglect of blogging friends and their blogs. … Continue reading
Posted in dahlias, Gardening, Gardens, grasses, greenhouse, snowdrops, Winter, winter interest
Tagged early sweet peas, greenhouse bubblewrap, winter storage of dahlias
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In a 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
Posted in cutting beds, Gardening, Gardens, grasses, greenhouse, herbaceous perennials, In a Vase on Monday
Tagged flowers in a vase
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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
Posted in annuals, cutting beds, dahlias, Gardening, Gardens, grasses, In a Vase on Monday
Tagged flowers in a vase
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In a Vase on Monday: Onset of Decay
Contrasting with the splashes of colour featured in ‘Blooming September’ yesterday, today’s vase focuses on the onset of decay that follows the abundance and glories of summer, with a single bloom of Rosa ‘Munstead Wood’ and stems of Persicaria ‘Fat … Continue reading
Posted in Autumn, Gardening, Gardens, grasses, herbaceous perennials, In a Vase on Monday, roses
Tagged flowers in a vase
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Ina Vase on Monday: Meadowsweet
Have I managed to fool you into expecting a vase filled with the wildflower meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria)?! Instead, however, we have a vase of cultivated cornflowers and grasses, standing on a piece of artificial turf. A sweet meadow (of sorts), … Continue reading
Posted in annuals, cutting beds, Gardening, Gardens, grasses, In a Vase on Monday
Tagged artificial turf, cornflowers
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In a Vase on Monday: Countrystyle
Yet another vase idea has been hijacked before it could be carried out, kicked into touch by the bedding fuchsias lifted from a trough yesterday as part of a mammoth effort to get all my tulips planted regardless of the … Continue reading
Rambling in the Garden 