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mid-week photo album
Some photos taken in the last few days. There are tulip and cyclamen in bloom. Sprinklings of celandine in flower at the base of the damask rose. And a big bunch of bluebell bursting forth in the path on the … Continue reading
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garlic beds & spring prep
The small bed of garlic we planted in late autumn (November) are doing well. We also planted two giant garlic in a mini-plot. These provide a flash of hopeful green growth in the midst of bare patches that have been … Continue reading
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cutting update – damask success
Last winter we took three cuttings from the damask rose. At first, all three took and thrived, but eventually there were two, and then, just one. But what a one that one is! It’s been repotted to a large handsome … Continue reading
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the sea-holly re-surfaces
The sea holly, which had disappeared during the heat wave last summer, has re-appeared. The big dude’s delighted. I’d protected and marked the spot with a broken tool handle, which we’ve now removed. It’s likely that the very heavy clay … Continue reading
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advances in the back patch
In the back patch the long flower bed that runs beside the railway path is fairly well established – and full of perennial flowers of all sorts: iris, hollyhock, day lilly, gladioli, asiatic lilly, climbing roses on the pergolas, and … Continue reading
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a day for Dianthus
Saturday 7 July. Scorching. Over 30 degrees in London. High 20s in the shade. Whewf! There’s a few puffy white clouds in the sky, story-book styled, but for the most it’s relentless, pounding, pure shining sun. So up to … Continue reading
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June round-up
June 2018 – where did it go? We were so busy in June that I write this retrospectively, from the vantage of the end of the first week of July. Much was accomplished… The large compost bin on the top … Continue reading
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Lemon Verbena – Tweaked
So there we were, walking back from an evening meal out at a local cafe. Ambling along hand in hand, and then got to dawdling along the railway path – the last stretch back to the flat – and stopped … Continue reading
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