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The Golfer Does it Again
You will have realised by now that it is very useful to have a Golfer around the place and we certainly make a good team – I just need to have an idea, decide on a rough design and the … Continue reading
In a Vase on Monday: Enigma
After nearly a week away there was plenty of choice of blooms to cut, particularly as more dahlias are now flowering but sunflowers, rudbeckia and cosmos and others are still going strong too, and those asters! My goodness, they certainly … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Gardens, In a Vase on Monday
Tagged flowers in a vase, Sarcococca humilis, tree lily
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True Grit
A couple of years ago I decided the enough was enough, that the ‘tree lily’ in one of the main borders was far too big for it boots and its current spot, and indeed that there were NO suitable spots … Continue reading
In a Vase on Monday: Use and Ornament
Is ‘neither use nor ornament’ a particularly British phrase, I wonder? Meaning something is a waste of space? That is my general feeling about the tree lily that is still towering statuesquely above my head, albeit not quite as statuesquely … Continue reading
Missing the Cut: Neither Use nor Ornament
Well, OK it’s pretty when you look at it close up, but when it’s up THERE (about 8 feet) and I’m down HERE (about 5 feet) AND it’s in the middle of a wide border AND there’s about 8 feet … Continue reading
Ups and Downs
Mostly ups, I am pleased to say. Firstly, the beautiful pink satin petals of this tree lily are as perfect as they could be, despite leaves nibbled by a succession of lily beetles. Although it took more than a year … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Gardens, projects
Tagged artificial stream, clematis, day lily, tree lily
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