Category Archives: flowering bulbs

My Garden Journal 2020 – May

Posted on June 1, 2020 by greenbenchramblings

My May pages for my garden journal are full of summery gardening. I opened with a page featuring two of my paintings of blue irises, one Iris germanica and the other Iris sibirica. I used Japanese brush pens. I wrote, “May … Continue reading →

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Gardening in lock down – tulip time

Posted on May 14, 2020 by greenbenchramblings

We love tulips as they appear magically several months after we planted those beautiful bulbs so full of potential and promises. Some of the tulips we planted last autumn have ended up looking striped which reminds me of … Continue reading →

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Spring bulbs at Avocet

Posted on March 28, 2020 by greenbenchramblings

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 →

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Attingham snowdrop walk

Posted on March 8, 2020 by greenbenchramblings

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 →

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My Garden Journal 2020 – February

Posted on March 5, 2020 by greenbenchramblings

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 →

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The Sheffield Gardens – Part 2 – James Hitchmough’s patch

Posted on December 19, 2019 by greenbenchramblings

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 →

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My Garden Journal 2019 – November

Posted on December 5, 2019 by greenbenchramblings

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 →

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Simply Beautiful – no 32 in an occasional series – iris flowers

Posted on August 2, 2019 by greenbenchramblings

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

Posted on June 9, 2019 by greenbenchramblings

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 →

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My Garden Journal 2019 – May

Posted on May 30, 2019 by greenbenchramblings

It is the last month of spring and the garden is alive, everything is thriving and growing apace. But the weather is still confusing our plants. Towards the end of the month we had a few daffodils still in flower … Continue reading →