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October 2012

  • Season for Sunsets

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    Around this time, for about a month or so, we get really good sunrises and sunsets and they’re timed such that we see them on the way to and from …

  • For the One Who Wanted Gaura

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    Most of the seeds I sowed during mid-summer are coming along nicely; one of seed packs was Gaura Lindheimeri. Someone commented that they wanted to see the Gaura growing and for …

  • Favourite Fuchsia

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    I have a favourite fuchsia called “Cotton Candy”. It’s a lovely flower that has a cream-white frilly skirt and  candy-pink flushed outer petals. The stamens are a contrasting dark pink that is also carried …

  • Wrapping Up For Winter

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    We’ve been lucky with the weather at the weekends recently as although it’s been cold, there’s been sunshine, so I took the opportunity to put up the temporary winter greenhouse …

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