As usual, I am late; this time for the Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day. It’s supposed to be on the 15th of each month but I got carried away with gardening and didn’t do enough of the taking pictures and writing … Continue reading
Spring might have arrived very late but the daffodils are all here now and they look lovely in the garden. Since the rear garden faces south, all we see from the kitchen window are the backs of these flowers. This … Continue reading
I can hear the announcement over the echoey platform tannoy system, “BING BONG, We regret to announce that the UK service to Spring arriving in March, has been delayed due to snow on the line. We apologise for any disruption … Continue reading
At the corner of the garden is a sizeable ornamental cherry blossom and it has beautiful double-flowers of the most delicate soft pink. It comes out rather late in terms of blossoming cherries. When most have already flowered and finished, … Continue reading
I have a thing about Wisterias. We’re in a very good part of the UK to grow them and to see old specimens. A page of this site is even dedicated to a “Wisteria Diary” that is charting how ours … Continue reading
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
