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  • Beware Flattened Plants

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    A serious problem for some gardens is the risk of the weight of snow bringing down tree limbs or sections of large plants, especially evergreen plants where there are leaves …

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  • Snow Continues

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    It looks like there’s no let-up to the cold just yet. A continental high that is refusing to shift is sending freezing air our way. The snow isn’t really thawing …

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  • Amaryllis Flowers

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    I’ve been conned. It’s the second flower spike on the Amaryllis, it has opened to reveal only three flowers instead of the four that I was expecting (since I got …

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  • And February Comes

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    A few posts back I’d taken a picture of a daffodil that was just about to open and I wrote about the anticipation of seeing that first large, vivid flower …

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  • Beautiful Sunsets

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    It’s that time of the year when the days are getting imperceptibly longer and the sun sets towards the end of the working day, instead of the middle of the …

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  • Winter Clearing

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    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 …

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  • Waiting In Anticipation

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    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 – …

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  • Amaryllis – Second Spike

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    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 …

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