Category Archives: shrubs

Six Hatchlings on Saturday

Posted on June 6, 2020 by

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 →

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In a Vase on Monday: Pillaged

Posted on March 2, 2020 by

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 →

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Ina Vase on Monday: In the Queue for Green

Posted on February 3, 2020 by

I turned to shrubs for In a Vase on Monday today, starting with a sprig of Skimmia japonica ‘Kew Green’ with its greenish flowers which helpfully pollinate the nearby ‘Kew White’ and enable the latter to give birth to a … Continue reading →

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Six on Saturday: Promises, Promises

Posted on December 7, 2019 by

One of our neighbours is bereft when the UK television programme Gardeners’ World has its seasonal break, as for him this marks the end of the gardening year and a winter with no reason to go and potter in the … Continue reading →

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Six on Saturday: Combo

Posted on August 10, 2019 by

Today’s six are all combinations that bring me pleasure. Do visit our host, Jon and his Propagator’s blog to see a wide range of other sixes from around the globe. I have shown the above combination many times, and as … Continue reading →

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A Critical Eye, Part 1: Some Positives

Posted on August 9, 2019 by

The woodland may not look much in August apart from being a relatively cool and shady place, but I know that in early spring it will be awash with, in succession, primroses, wood anemones, snakeshead fritillaries, bluebells and wild garlic. … Continue reading →

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Six on Saturday: And Now For Something Completely Different…

Posted on July 27, 2019 by

…FOLIAGE, and some welcome rain and a 15-20°C drop in temperature! For a number of years Christina of My Hesperides Garden hosted a monthly meme celebrating foliage, and it was this that made me begin to look at foliage in … Continue reading →

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In a Vase on Monday: Wake Up and Smell the…

Posted on January 15, 2018 by

…viburnum, the sarcococca and the lonicera! Suddenly the fragrances of these winter flowers are becoming evident, even though they have all been flowering for a few weeks. Many stems of Lonicera purpusii ‘Winter Beauty’ are all but over, but the … Continue reading →

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Wordless Wednesday: Coloured Sticks

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In a Vase on Monday: Take a Chance, Take a Chance, Take a Chance on Me

Posted on March 6, 2017 by

With more than half a dozen buds on Camellia japonica ‘Nobilissima’ swelling nicely and following the success of other shrubby buds opening in vases, I decided to take a chance and try the camellia in today’s vase. This sprig with … Continue reading →

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