Greetings from a dull northwest England garden, but at least it’s not raining.
This really will be my last my blog of the year! Thank you for following, liking and commenting.
I have several hellebores currently flowering in my garden, a bit early I think but actually one (not pictured) has been trying to flower since the summer. Very confused.
Here are my pictures. Wishing you all a happy New Year.
Wishing all my readers a happy peaceful Christmas and joy filled New year. This is probably my last blog of the year
Sorry this isn’t a real tree but it is ours!
I have a stone hexagonal pot that has recently been vacated by a dahlia that refused to flower. I should also say that I inherited this pot from my maternal grandparents nearly 20 years ago and it’s the oldest in the garden but still in great condition. I went shopping for a plant for it earlier this week and couldn’t find anything suitable. Then yesterday I was leaving my job and my colleague brought me a Christmas rose and it looks lovely in the pot. I have numerous hellebores (another name for the Christmas rose) around the garden but a lot of them get diseased and it spreads between them so hopefully being in a pot will stop this. Here it is planted up this afternoon
Greetings from a dull, but fairly mild day in my garden.
On Monday I joined a gardens hour chat on twitter and we were asked to say hi and one word to describe our gardening weeks. I said quiet but actually now it would be leaves. They are everywhere and I’m about to dress in my gardening clothes to brush some up. We don’t do leave mould as it doesn’t work for us, they just get all slimy in a bag. Maybe I’m doing something wrong. Anyway, this tree is looking great at the moment but I’m not looking forward to clearing up after it
Greetings on a cold but dry day from my garden in northwest England.
I have almost finished tidying the garden if that’s ever possible. I guess I just have to decide when to stop.
I have finished my tulip planting today (pictures of bulbs below) and this year have also planted pansies in some of the pots. I realise that the tulips this year are nearly all pale – not intentional. 
I have managed to get out into the garden on 3 occasions this last week which is more than most months lately. I’ve mostly been weeding, tidying and doing some planting. I have lots of spring bulbs to plant and while I love them I really don’t enjoy planting bulbs. I bought some wallflowers in a bag today – do they call it in the green? I’m not sure but they are harlequin king I think – orange, red and yellow. I really liked the pink ones but decided they wouldn’t go with the tete a tete already in the troughs. Here’s the finished troughs, the bulbs at the back are peacock orchids and haven’t flowered this year.
Not many words today – just a loving red acer (I haven’t enhanced the colour at all – I don’t know how – just in case you thought it doesn’t look real)
So I think autumn has officially arrived and I couldn’t believe how cold it was yesterday when I got up, in fact although it was bright and sunny all day it never warmed up.
I am now working 2 part time office type jobs and so getting out into the garden is more challenging with less time and the poor weather occurring on my days off! However, I’ve had a few minutes this evening to see what’s going on and there are a few plants looking especially good at this moment in time. Firstly, an acer that lives in a pot, a new red cyclamen and red climbing roses. Lastly a persicara red dragon which has gone mad and mum is always looking to chop back or dispose of. I think there’s a bit of a red theme here and actually it’s one of my favourite colours so probably not surprising we have so much of it
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