Category Archives: Winter

Wordless Wednesday: One Drop or Two?

Posted on January 22, 2020 by
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In a Vase on Monday: Cut and Dried

Posted on January 20, 2020 by

I picked up a wispy silver birch branch from one of the Golfer’s newly swept paths during the week, intending to put it in our green waste bin but, looking at it more closely and admiring its shapeliness, decided there … Continue reading →

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Wordless Wednesday: Noble AND Cute

Posted on January 15, 2020 by
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In a Vase on Monday: Twiggy Trio

Posted on January 13, 2020 by

Good morning and welcome to a mid-January In a Vase on Monday, for which I had already earmarked a damaged twig of witch hazel Hamamelis vernalis ‘Amethyst’, retrieving it from where it was hanging on by a mere thread of … Continue reading →

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Wordless Wednesday: Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble

Posted on January 8, 2020 by
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Six on Saturday: Colour

Posted on January 4, 2020 by

It’s not all green and brown in the garden at the moment, as the Pittosporum ‘Tom Thumb’ and bright carex (C Everillo perhaps?) above demonstrate. Also in the shrub border are Nandina ‘Obsession’ and Nandina ‘Fire Power’: In the border … Continue reading →

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In a Vase on Monday: Hazel and Hazel

Posted on December 30, 2019 by

Having wished everyone a Happy New Year in IAVOM last Monday, today’s vase almost seems a bonus, having inadvertently ‘forgotten’ there was a complete week between Christmas and the start of 2020. Bonus Monday or not, I will still take … Continue reading →

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