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Category Archives: Gardens
Six on Saturday: Best Exotic
After Christmas, I commissioned The Golfer to build the framework of a bug hotel, which has duly been completed and erected. Everything has been recycled (no, I tell a lie – the slate roof was made from a roofing tile … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Gardens, seed sowing, Six on Saturday, winter interest
Tagged bug hotel
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In a Vase on Monday: Play Well
And now for something completely different, a vase constructed from Lego! As soon as I saw the Lego Botanical Collection featured (in a small way) in the RHS monthly magazine earlier this year it went immediately to the top of … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Gardens, In a Vase on Monday
Tagged flowers in a vase, Lego, Lego Botanicals
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Six on Saturday: Itsy Bitsy
Try as I might, I just could not establish any sort of theme for today’s Six on Saturday, the meme kindly hosted by ruminating garden blogger, Jim, so it’s a real itsy bitsy hotchpotch, starting with the first primroses blooming, … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Gardens, herbaceous perennials, Six on Saturday, snowdrops
Tagged hellebores, witch hazels
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Wordless Wednesday: Seeing the Light
Posted in bulbs, corms and tubers, Gardening, Gardens, greenhouse, seasonal tasks, Winter, winter interest
Tagged forced hyacinths
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In a Vase on Monday: Fiery
This week’s surprise appearance of a fully clothed ‘Jelena’, seemingly triggered by several days of relatively mild temperatures, has encouraged me to cut a generous number of stems (albeit low-growing or crisscrossing) for today’s vase. This is one of my … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Gardens, In a Vase on Monday, Winter, winter interest
Tagged flowers in a vase, witch hazels
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End of Month View and Another Year Over
So this is Christmas And what have you done Another year over And a new one just begun And so this is Christmas I hope you have fun The near and the dear one The old and the young A … Continue reading
Posted in End of Month View, Gardening, Gardens, Winter, winter interest
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Six on Saturday: Labour Bears Fruit
With Christmas ‘out of the way’ and rather milder and drier weather, I have easily spent more hours in the garden this last week than in the whole of the rest of December put together, systematically ticking off a number … Continue reading
Posted in Christmas, Gardening, Gardens, seasonal tasks, Six on Saturday, Winter, winter interest
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Wordless Wednesday: Late Boxing Day Additions
Posted in Boxing Day Count, Gardening, Gardens, Winter, winter interest
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Boxing Day Bloom Count
Since 2013 I have been conducting a count of blooms on Boxing Day or thereabouts, the totally varying greatly depending on the weather. Following an especially bountiful year in 2020 when many flowers were well ahead of themselves, last year … Continue reading
Posted in Boxing Day Count, Gardening, Gardens
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Rambling in the Garden 