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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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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
My Garden Journal 2018 – March
Into the third month of the year and we should now be seeing the cheerful signs of early spring. Spring should start the birds singing afresh. We should expect to see green returning to the garden as freshly-burst buds bring … Continue reading
Posted in birds, flowering bulbs, garden wildlife, gardening, gardens, irises, natural pest control, spring bulbs, spring gardening, trees
Tagged Avocet garden, bird boxes, ferns, gardening, hebes, insect homes, iris, iris reticulata, spring, spring garden, winter garden
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My Garden Journal 2018 – February
Part two of my 2018 Garden Journal sees us still freezing cold and struggling to get time in the garden. I opened my February entries by noting, “February is the month when we feel that the quality of the light … Continue reading
Posted in colours, flowering bulbs, garden design, garden photography, gardening, gardens, grasses, hardy perennials, irises, light, light quality, ornamental grasses, ornamental trees and shrubs, roses, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, shrubs, South Shropshire, spring bulbs, Winter Gardening, winter gardens
Tagged arum, cornus, cornus mas, Cornus Midwinter Fire, dogwoods, fastigiate plants, flowering bulbs, grasses, iris, iris reticulata, ornamental grasses, shrubs in winter, spring bulbs, viburnum, winter, winter aconite, winter garden, winter gardening
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A Walk in the Park – February at Attingham Park – Part 1
It is mid-February and time for our second visit to Attingham Park, our nearest National Trust property. We awoke on the day of our planned visit to a dark overcast sky and light rain hanging in the air, but we … Continue reading
Posted in birds, flowering bulbs, fruit and veg, garden buildings, garden photography, gardening, gardens, gardens open to the public, kitchen gardens, National Trust, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, spring bulbs, The National Trust, walled gardens, walled kitchen gardens, winter gardens, woodland, woodlands
Tagged fruit and vegetable growing, fruit pruning, gardens of Shropshire, glasshouses, hollies, iris, iris reticulata, National Trust, old glasshouses, productive gardening, pruning, pruning fruit, Shropshire, Shropshire gardens, The National Trust, walled garden, walled gardens
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My 2017 Garden Journal – January
It feels good to be back sharing my Garden Journal with you once again. So here is the first for 2017, my report on what was going on in our Avocet garden in January. For 2017 I will share the … Continue reading
Posted in birds, colours, flowering bulbs, garden photography, garden wildlife, gardening, gardens, hardy perennials, ornamental trees and shrubs, outdoor sculpture, Shropshire, shrubs, spring bulbs, trees, Winter Gardening, winter gardens
Tagged bees, betula, Betula albosinensis, Betula albosinensis "Septentronalis", betulas, birch, birches, birds, frost, garden birds, garden wildlife, hellebore, hellebores, honey bees, iris, iris reticulata, January, January garden, Japanese secateurs, Okatsune secateurs, scent, scent in the garden, scented plants, scented shrubs, secateurs, seed heads, shrubs in winter, turfing, turfing spade, winter, winter garden, winter gardening, winter gardens
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My Garden Journal – May
May has now finished so it is time to present my entries for that month in my Garden Journal. Gardening was totally at the behest of the weather, which was to say disappointing. As usual my first page for the … Continue reading
Posted in climbing plants, colours, garden design, garden photography, gardening, gardens, hardy perennials, irises, light, National Garden Scheme, ornamental trees and shrubs, Shropshire, trees, Yellow Book Gardens
Tagged bearded iris, garden photography, gardening, gardens in May, iris, irises, May, NGS, ornamental trees, Shropshire, Yellow Book, Yellow Book Gardens
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Winter Wonderland at Dunham Massey – part one
We are in the habit of visiting the gardens of the National Trust property, Dunham Massey, especially since their Winter Garden has matured. We tend to visit in February. This year we made our annual pilgrimage on a sunny, mild … Continue reading
Posted in Cheshire, colours, flowering bulbs, garden design, garden photography, gardens, gardens open to the public, irises, light, light quality, National Trust, ornamental trees and shrubs, shrubs, spring bulbs, The National Trust, trees, Winter Gardening, winter gardens
Tagged betula, birch, birches, Cheshire, Cheshire gardens, cornus, dogwoods, Dunham Massey, iris, National Trust, spring bulbs, spring flowers, winter garden, winter gardening, witch hazels
Croft Castle Month by Month – January
Welcome to the first post in my series of monthly posts looking at a local garden. Throughout 2014 we traveled northward through the Shropshire Plains into neighbouring county Staffordshire in order to visit Trentham Gardens. Throughout 2015 we will travel … Continue reading
Posted in birds, buildings, fruit and veg, garden buildings, garden design, garden photography, garden wildlife, gardening, gardens, gardens open to the public, grow your own, hardy perennials, irises, kitchen gardens, light, National Trust, ornamental trees and shrubs, The National Trust, walled gardens, walled kitchen gardens, Winter Gardening, winter gardens
Tagged fruit training, fruit., hedgehogs, Herefordshire, Herefordshire gardens, iris, open gardens, The National Trust, trained fruit, walled garden, walled gardens
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Irises at Trentham
When we made our monthly pilgrimage to the wonderful gardens at Trentham for my “garden for all seasons” posts, we were particularly taken with the variety of irises on show integrated into the borders designed by Tom Stuart-Smith. Most were … Continue reading
Posted in colours, flowering bulbs, garden design, garden designers, garden photography, garden ponds, garden pools, gardening, gardens, gardens open to the public, hardy perennials, irises, Italian style gardens, lakes, Piet Oudolf, Staffordshire, Tom Stuart-Smith
Tagged bearded iris, garden photography, gardening, iris, iris sibirica, irises, Piet Oudolf, Tom Stuart-Smith, Trentham Gardens
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