Though the rain hasn’t moved, the gardening year has. Several of the early spring flowering shrubs and plants such as the Skimmia and Spirea have finished. The ornamental red-currant is coming to end and now it’s the turn of the … Continue reading
As the (still daily) showers continue and the garden further saturates with water, a set of plants enjoying all the moisture are the ferns. We have a few different types and it’s about now that they start launching new “tendrils” … Continue reading
The daffodils for this year are pretty much over. We don’t have huge numbers of them and they’re mixed so they come out at different time and the last ones to come and go are these multi-headed doubles, of which … Continue reading
I’m quite sure that every day since the regional hose-pipe ban came into effect at the beginning of April, it has rained. Not just the odd bit of drizzle here and there but we’ve had showers, daily, since the beginning … Continue reading
Now I’m a bit hopeless at taking good photos. I take pictures that usually end up blurred, have bad composition or have my thumb in the corner etc. I blame the camera, it’s simply not good enough and now I … Continue reading
For some time now I’ve been working my way through a really big pile of well-rotted manure that appeared at the end of the drive one evening in early March. I’ve been systematically decanting it into buckets and then hand-sifting … Continue reading
In the front garden along the fence grows a dense mass of something called “three cornered garlic”. I only recently found out that this is what it is called after trying several times and finally resorting to searching the internet … Continue reading
