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Reflections
This isn’t quite the view that visitors to our garden on Sunday afternoon were met with, as an overcast day meant the single common snowdrops were still mostly not fully out, unlike today. However, from comments made to the Golfer, … Continue reading
Posted in early spring, Gardening, Gardens, open gardens, snowdrops, Winter, winter interest
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In a Vase on Monday: Elephant in the Room?
Today’s vase is teeny tiny, no more than three inches tall, but rather than a bland teeny title, I opted for something more provocative, as you will see. With our garden opening yesterday, when this post was written, I knew … Continue reading
Six on Saturday: More Bewitching
I am fortunate to have a number of witch hazels in the garden and this year, for some reason, given the summer drought and severe pre-Christmas freeze, most of them are flowering better and more profusely than ever before. You … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Gardens, open gardens, projects, Six on Saturday, snowdrops, Winter, winter interest, woodland
Tagged opening a garden for the NGS, snowdrops, witch hazel
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In Our Stride
I promised an update about our garden openings and I am pleased to say that over two afternoon openings and a group visit we raised just over £1070, £840 of which will go to the National Garden Scheme charities and … Continue reading
In a Vase on Monday: Tea, Anyone? Cake?
With our second open garden afternoon yesterday, I knew I would not be able to squeeze in the creation of a vase for today’s IAVOM, but had the presence of mind to take a few photographs of one of the … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Gardens, In a Vase on Monday, open gardens, Summer
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Six on Saturday: In-between
We are in-between garden openings at the moment, with a group visit a week ago, the first general opening on Wednesday, and our second and last general opening tomorrow. Unless there are later group visits booked, that will be it … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Gardens, open gardens, Six on Saturday
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In a Vase on Monday: Turn That Frown Upside Down…
It was fairly late in the day yesterday when I prepared my vase, having attended a long lunch with other National Garden Scheme garden owners in Staffordshire, Birmingham & part of the West Midlands and picked up our posters and … Continue reading
Never Mind the Weather, Never Mind the Rain
Never mind the weather, never mind the rain Now that we’re together, whoops she goes again La-di-da-di-da, la-di-da-di-de All good pals and jolly good company I gave up looking at the weather forecast for the day of our garden opening … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Gardens, open gardens, winter interest
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In a Vase on Monday: Scaling the Heights
Nearly everything about this Monday vase changed during its production – some of the contents, the prop, the actual vase itself, although not the title, which was triggered by the original inspiration, crab apple Malus ‘Evereste’. Originally joining the crab … Continue reading
All Done…
Tuesday afternoon saw the last of our gardening openings for this year, with a group visit from a local gardening club. The group had actually booked to visit last year but Covid put paid to that, so I was pleased … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Gardens, open gardens, Visiting gardens & days out
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Rambling in the Garden 