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Category Archives: Winter
In a Vase on Monday: At the Double
Just a very quick IAVOM post from me today, a teeny Bretby Pottery salesman’s sample jug, with a posy of common double snowdrops, Galanthus ‘Flore Pleno’. They may be ‘common’, but that doesn’t stop them being exceedingly pretty, with their … Continue reading
Posted in bulbs, corms and tubers, early spring, Gardening, Gardens, In a Vase on Monday, snowdrops, Winter, winter interest
Tagged snowdrops
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Wordless Wednesday: Strawberries and Cream
Posted in Gardening, Gardens, Winter, winter interest
Tagged Hamamelis 'Strawberries and Cream', witch hazel
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In a Vase on Monday: Sticks of Pink
Inspired by the lovely pink pussies of Salix gracilistyla ‘Mount Aso’ featured in my last Six on Saturday and a sudden glut of blooms on Viburnum bodnantense ‘Dawn’, creating today’s vase began easily. Selecting stems of the former that wouldn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Gardens, In a Vase on Monday, shrubs, Winter, winter interest
Tagged flowers in a vase, novelty teapot, seaside rock
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Six on Saturday: Whirling Dervish?
This hellebore always astonishes me with its profligacy, an almost overabundance of buds and, in due course, flowers. I have to remember not to trim its marbled leaves, a feature of x ericsmithii hellebores; this one is H ‘Piroueutte’ and … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Gardens, Six on Saturday, Winter, winter interest, woodland
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Wordless Wednesday: a Winter Container
Posted in container & basket plants, Gardening, Gardens, grasses, plants in pots, Winter, winter interest, Wordless Wednesday
Tagged ferns, grasses
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In a Vase on Monday: Thoughts of the Orient
I am not quite sure where the thoughts of the Orient came from, although the witch hazel at least has oriental ancestry – it may simply be that the yellow, cream and yellow-green contents brought this little perfume bottle to … Continue reading
Posted in foliage, Gardening, Gardens, In a Vase on Monday, Winter, winter interest
Tagged flowers in a vase
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Six on Saturday, Including Some Lessons
If there is a lesson to be learned about the rose above, ‘Phyllis Bide’, it is not to overlook what is in front of your face. Planted outside the front door a few years ago to replace, on a whim, … Continue reading
Wordless Wednesday: Tricolor
Posted in bulbs, corms and tubers, Gardening, Gardens, Winter, winter interest, Wordless Wednesday
Tagged Crocus sieberi tricolor
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In a Vase on Monday: Green Grow the Rushes, O
I’ll sing you one, O Green grow the rushes, O What is your one, O? etc Having walked past the seriously fragrant Sarcococca confusa several times a day in the last couple of days, I had planned that this would … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Gardens, grasses, In a Vase on Monday, Winter, winter interest
Tagged flowers in a vase
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Six on Saturday: Always Something
I feel sorry for gardeners who have no incentive to spend time in their gardens in January, especially on the more clement days like those we have had this week – with colder days due soon, however, it might be … Continue reading
Rambling in the Garden 