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Tag Archives: apples
Garden Revisiting Part One – The Garden in a Cider Orchard
We are so lucky to have so many great gardens that we can visit in a day from home. I thought a week of posts all about revisiting gardens would prepare us well for the warmer weather and get our … Continue reading
Posted in climbing plants, colours, fruit and veg, garden buildings, garden design, garden photography, garden ponds, garden pools, gardening, gardens, gardens open to the public, grow your own, half-hardy perennials, hardy perennials, Herefordshire, kitchen gardens, ornamental trees and shrubs, water in the garden
Tagged apples, foliage plants, fruit and veg, fruit and vegetable growing, fruit., garden photography, gardening, gardens of Herefordshire, ornamental trees, shrubs, Stockton Bury
Simply beautiful blossom
We grow many fruit trees here at our Avocet patch, mostly trained as cordons, ballerinas or stepovers, plus one freely grown tree a Quince “Vranga”. In mid-May these apples and pears are in full blousy blossom. I went out into … Continue reading
Croft Castle – month by month – the final report
Illness has prevented us making our monthly visit to Croft Castle where I would take photographs and report back about all that is going on in the gardens of this Herefordshire property run by the National Trust. Thus this final … Continue reading
Posted in autumn, autumn colours, climbing plants, colours, flowering bulbs, garden photography, gardening, gardens, gardens open to the public, hardy perennials, Herefordshire, irises, light, light quality, National Trust, ornamental trees and shrubs, poppies, roses, shrubs, The National Trust, walled gardens, Winter Gardening, winter gardens
Tagged apple trees, apples, berried shrubs, berries, flowering shrubs, Herefordshire, Herefordshire gardens, nerines, ornamental shrubs, perennial wallflowers, scent, scent in the garden, scented plants, scented shrubs, trees and shrubs, walled garden, walled gardens, winter shrubs
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My Garden Journal – November
The penultimate visit to my garden journal for this year is here already, and I write this as November comes to a close. The strong winds of November howl around the house and roar down our chimneys. The rain has … Continue reading
Posted in autumn, autumn colours, colours, garden photography, gardening, hardy perennials, ornamental trees and shrubs, poppies, roses, Shropshire, shrubs, Winter Gardening
Tagged acers., apples, autumn, autumn colours, buddleias, buddlejas, deciduous euonymus, euonymus, Hydrangeas, November, ornamental shrubs, ornamental trees, Persicarias, shrubs, viburnum
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Aiming for an all year round garden – our garden in September 2
From the beginning to the end the month of September saw great changes as autumn began to show its glory. There may be fewer flowers out in this month but every one seems richer in colour and texture, and the … Continue reading
Posted in autumn, autumn colours, colours, fruit and veg, garden design, garden photography, gardening, gardens, hardy perennials, Shropshire
Tagged apples, autumn, autumn colours, clematis, foliage, garden photography, gardening, grasses, hardy perennials, ornamental trees, September, trees
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What’s on the Plots? An end of year wander around the allotments.
Mid-December often sees the allotment site under snow or at least coated in frost, but not this year. We wandered around today with camera in hand and we were appreciative of the bright clear blue sky overhead. The midday sun … Continue reading
Posted in allotments, birds, community gardening, fruit and veg, garden photography, garden wildlife, gardening, gardens, grasses, grow your own, hardy perennials, kitchen gardens, light, light quality, meadows, natural pest control, ornamental grasses, ornamental trees and shrubs, photography, roses, spring bulbs, wildlife, Winter Gardening
Tagged allotments, apples, birds, community gardening, foliage, foliage plants, fruit and veg, fruit and vegetable growing, garden photography, garden wildlife, gardening, grasses, insects, meadows, organic gardening, ornamental trees, spring bulbs, winter, winter garden, winter gardening, winter gardens
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Telescopes and Trees – part one
Telescopes and trees do not normally go together but there is one very special place here in the Midlands where they certainly do. We drove northwards on the A49 making our way into Cheshire in search of Jodrell Bank famous … Continue reading
Posted in arboreta, autumn, autumn colours, Cheshire, colours, garden photography, garden wildlife, gardening, gardens, gardens open to the public, ornamental trees and shrubs, wildlife, woodland
Tagged apples, autumn, autumn colours, birds, dogwoods, garden wildlife, gardening, ornamental trees, thrushes, wildlife, winter migrants
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