
Winter Clearing
Over the weekend, while the weather was almost agreeable, I took the opportunity to start the winter clearing. I am generally a very tidy person and I can’t tolerate the […]
Over the weekend, while the weather was almost agreeable, I took the opportunity to start the winter clearing. I am generally a very tidy person and I can’t tolerate the […]
As I was talking a walk round garden, being careful not to step on any more daffodils, I took a couple of shots for future posts and this one – […]
Having completely failed to get pictures of the Amaryllis flowers from the first spike, I’ll try and do better with the second. Right now, the top of the spike has […]
I really, really hate it when the weekend weather is wet, cold and miserable and I can’t go outside and do something useful in the garden. Then, to rub salt […]
While I was talking my weekly weekend walk around the garden (despairing at the mess), I spotted this little critter on a Cineraria. I actually spotted it a mile off […]
It’s been very quiet on the gardening front. There’s nothing to do. It’s been very cold recently and the ground was frozen solid, the last place I wanted to be […]
Or more preceisely, Plumbago auriculata var. alba. I saw this gorgeous little plant growing in a raised bed against a wall in the full, searing Indian sun. It was doing […]
Over the weekend we had a rather cold night that led to a very frosty morning. While the sun was shining I took a couple of photos of some of […]
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In the front garden there’s a very small and rather underwhelming evergreen shrub. It’s less than a foot high, has dark glossy leaves with pointed tips and for much of […]
Continuing with the exotic theme to keep us distracted from the dull weather, we’re still at my gran’s house in India, but now in the front garden. While I was […]