On a day when it’s miserable and wet I have noticed some lovely spring bulbs flowering in my garden that I want to share with you, all yellow! Not really my favourite colour but so bright and cheery on a day like today! Firstly, the Tete-a-test in my wooden wheelbarrow that actually needs repairing but I have to empty it first. Then some crocus and finally more mini daffodils in troughs that have wallflowers in as well.
Just a couple of pictures of my Camellia flowering in the greenhouse. I think it’s a variety called Debbie and I originally bought it for my late grandmothers garden that I planted last year but I fell in love with the pretty pink flower on the label so it stayed here in a pot and is currently overwintering in the greenhouse and I’m so glad I kept it. What do you think?
Please excuse the bubble wrap, it’s protecting the plants in the greenhouse!
It’s been a sunny but cold winters day today but there is some colour in the garden to cheer one up. Many of my bulbs are appearing now and we even have a few tiny crocus flowering. My neighbour across the road whom I garden for in spring and summer has many crocus up but we’ve always said she has her own microclimate.
So, here is what’s flowering in my garden this month. A lovely hellebore that avoided being dug out last year (the leaves aren’t quite as diseased as the others) and 2 little primulas
A very quick blog today to show the first flowers to appear in my garden today – some baby iris.
So another year has finished and Christmas and new year celebrations ended. My trees will both be tidied away tomorrow for another 11 months or so – it comes round so fast can’t I just leave them out but not decorated! It’s not a job I enjoy.
This month is not a colourful one in my garden at all! Therefore my ‘what’s flowering in my garden’ post is a difficult one. I’ve got some houseplants including this poinsettia that we somehow managed to keep alive by putting it in the dark somewhere over the summer and it has a few red leaves
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So during the summer months I am usually ready and chomping at the bit to show what is flowering in my garden that particular month. This month the garden is looking quite dead and nothing is flowering so I am using artistic license and showing my real Christmas tree that we’ve had outside in a pot since last year.
December is a pretty quiet month garden wise although I’ve been tidying up a a bit and sadly had to dig up and dispose of about 5 of my favourite winter flowering plants- hellebores. They have been diseased for a while and this is the only way to deal with it.
I probably won’t be blogging again this month so thank you to all my readers from all over the world. Wishing you a peaceful and happy Christmas and new year!
So since I last wrote, winter seems to have appeared here in the north west of England where I live, we’ve had our first frost this week and some parts of the country are forecast snow. Its not a time of year I enjoy, although the colder it gets the better it actually is for the garden as it will kill all the bugs. Fortunately for me at the moment I don’t actually have to go out each day if I don’t want to!
In an October post I wrote a short to do list of jobs and bar one I think I have completed them. I cleaned the greenhouse inside and out, and all the pots and trays have been cleaned. Its also been insulated with bubble wrap and the plants that live there in winter – the dahlias, and half=hardy plants in pots have moved in.
I’ve also planted most of my bulbs, just waiting for a few more pots to come before I finish that task. I’ve spread compost around the garden, well spread is probably a little too precise, I’ve chucked the compost at the beds and hoping the worms do the rest. Today, I have taken out some cosmos that have finished flowering and planted wallflowers in place of my dahlias in the 2 troughs (picture below). These particular dahlias I grew from seed but the tubers that grew were amazing and I don’t know whether to try and over-winter or just sow the seeds again next year.
I have struggled a little with my challenge of finding something new in flower for November, so I’ve pictured some things which are either new to the garden or have pretty leaves or are simply still flowering.
Mum, Daddy and I had a little afternoon trip to Tatton Park this afternoon to see the autumn colours. I hadn’t been to the actual gardens for years, we often used to go when I was little and play hide-and-seek in the gardens with mum’s parents. We even have a picture of mum trying to climb a tree, I was never that way inclined!
It was a dull day but at least it kept dry even if it was a little muddy underfoot. We went to world-famous Japanese gardens restored in 2001 to look even better. Not much else was worth looking at really. I did get some nice pictures though – please see below
Just a quick blog to show some pictures of the trees and plants in my garden going orange and red for autumn.
On Saturday, Mum, Daddy and I went on a rare outing to Arley Hall gardens in Northwich/Warrington area. They are famous for their amazing long herbaceous borders still full of colour even at this time of year. They also had sculptures in the gardens and plenty to look at.
I took lots of pictures and hope you enjoy looking at a selection of them, it might even encourage you to visit the gardens and house for yourself.
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