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Category Archives: shrubs
Wordless Wednesday: Benny
Posted in Gardens, shrubs, winter interest, Wordless Wednesday
Tagged Prunus mume ' Beni-chidori'
9 Comments
Wordless Wednesday: Scratch ‘n’ Sniff…
Posted in Gardening, Gardens, shrubs, Wordless Wednesday
Tagged fragrant shrubs, Sarcococca humilis
15 Comments
Meet the Family!
I would like to invite you to meet my other family, my witches! Regular readers will know that I have a number of witch hazels which, not surprisingly, bring great pleasure at this time of year. Many of them are … Continue reading
Wordless Wednesday: On Fire!
Posted in Gardening, Gardens, shrubs, Winter, Wordless Wednesday
Tagged cornus, Hamamelis 'Jelena'
17 Comments
Wordless Wednesday: a New Dawn
Posted in Gardening, Gardens, shrubs, Wordless Wednesday
Tagged Viburnum bodnantense ‘Dawn’
4 Comments
Six Hatchlings on Saturday
It is always exciting when something in the garden flowers for the first time, or after a long absence – an occasion for the red carpet to be rolled out and for a tootle on a trumpet or, at the … Continue reading
Posted in climbers, cutting beds, dahlias, Gardening, Gardens, herbaceous perennials, shrubs, Six on Saturday, Weather, Wildlife
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In a Vase on Monday: Pillaged
I will own up immediately to having pillaged these forsythia stems from our neighbour’s hedge, or was it the roadside verge? One or the other, anyway. In the past I generally would have shunned forsythia, both for its yellowness and … Continue reading
