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Spring bulbs at Avocet
This time of year is made extra special as the bulbs we planted in the autumn start to burst into flower. Daffodils give splashes of every shade of yellow often with orange trumpets. We have a few whites left from … Continue reading
Attingham snowdrop walk
Every year in February we follow our usual walk around the grounds of Attingham Park, a National Trust property just a half hour drive away. What makes this February walk different is the thousands of snowdrops growing happily beneath beautiful … Continue reading
My Garden Journal 2020 – February
Okay, it’s February in this leap year so we will gain a day, and it is time for another visit to my garden journal. Weather has been interesting this month just because it has been so extreme and variable, wild … Continue reading
Posted in flowering bulbs, garden photography, gardening, irises, spring bulbs, trees, Winter Gardening, winter gardens
Tagged catkins, Cyclamen coum, deciduous euonymus, foliage, foliage colour, foliage plants, iris, iris reticulata, pruning, salix, shrubs in winter, the garden in winter, willow, winter, winter cyclamen, winter gardens, winter shrubs
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The Sheffield Gardens – Part 2 – James Hitchmough’s patch
So during our weekend up in Sheffield after visiting the garden of Nigel Dunnett, we moved on to explore the garden of his colleague, Professor James Hitchmough. This garden was half way up a steep narrow road near the city … Continue reading
Posted in colours, flowering bulbs, garden design, garden designers, garden photography, gardening, gardens, half-hardy perennials, hardy perennials, meadows, National Garden Scheme, NGS, Yorkshire
Tagged flowering bulbs, garden designers gardens, herbaceous plants, James Hitchmough, Sheffield, Sheffield School of Planting, South African flowering bulbs
My Garden Journal 2019 – November
I started my entries for November by commenting. “November takes us deep into autumn, the red hot colours of foliage dominate but little gems of flower colour provide spots of colour that attracts us. This November the dominant colour has … Continue reading
Posted in autumn, autumn colours, birds, colours, flowering bulbs, garden photography, garden ponds, garden pools, garden wildlife, gardening, gardens, grasses, hardy perennials, light quality, ornamental grasses, ornamental trees and shrubs, shrubs, water in the garden
Tagged autumn, autumn berries, autumn colours, autumn gardens, berried shrubs, berries, cotoneaster, gardens in autumn, gravel garden, the garden in autumn
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Simply Beautiful – no 32 in an occasional series – iris flowers
Back with the 32nd post in my Simply Beautiful series where I look at the beauty of a single object, in this case Iris flowers, one white and one black found in the same garden. Simply beautiful!
Posted in colours, flowering bulbs
Tagged flower photography, flowering bulbs, iris, irises
Moors Meadow – a romantic garden full of magic
We had not visited the magical garden at Moors Meadow for several years so we were really looking forward to exploring it with my brother Graham and sister-in-law Vicky. The garden here was pronounced Britain’s most romantic garden by a … Continue reading
Posted in flowering bulbs, garden design, garden furniture, garden paths, garden photography, garden pools, garden seat, garden seating, gardening, gardens, gardens open to the public, hardy perennials, Land Art, light, light quality, ornamental grasses, ornamental trees and shrubs, outdoor sculpture, pathways, shrubs, spring, spring gardening, village gardens, Yellow Book Gardens
Tagged garden furniture, garden sculpture, garden seating, garden seats, gardens of Herefordshire, Herefordshire gardens, Moors Meadow, outdoor sculpture, trees and shrubs
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