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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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My Garden Journal 2020 – January

Posted on February 6, 2020 by greenbenchramblings

A new year starts here and along with it a new garden journal in a new book. This year I will restructure the format of my journal so that it includes fewer photos and written reports but more paintings. For … Continue reading →

Posted in garden design, garden photography, gardening, gardens, ornamental trees and shrubs, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, shrubs, South Shropshire, Winter Gardening, winter gardens | Tagged arum, cornus mas, Cornus Midwinter Fire, hamamelis, shrubs in winter, the garden in winter, winter, winter garden, winter gardening, winter shrubs, witch hazels | 2 Comments

Grasses at the year’s end.

Posted on December 29, 2019 by greenbenchramblings

The growth of interest in grasses has given a whole new dimension to gardening allowing us to soften our borders, listen to their sounds, enjoy their movement and the special way they catch the light. These three photos were taken … Continue reading →

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Simply Beautiful – no 29 – winter yellow

Posted on April 18, 2019 by greenbenchramblings

At the beginning of every year we are treated to the amazing display of flowers on our Cornus mas. The shrub gets covered in its citr us yellow unusual flowers. The flowers have to be looked at very close up … Continue reading →

Posted in garden photography, gardening, ornamental trees and shrubs, shrubs, winter gardens, wise watering | Tagged cornus mas, flowering shrubs, shrubs in winter, the garden in winter, winter, winter garden, yellow in the garden, yellow.

My Garden Journal 2019 – February

Posted on March 2, 2019 by greenbenchramblings

Here we are visiting my garden journal for the second time in 2019 with my February entries. My first double page spread was all about the week that spanned the last few days of January which delivered snowfall and the … Continue reading →

Posted in flowering bulbs, garden photography, ornamental grasses, ornamental trees and shrubs, Winter Gardening, winter gardens | Tagged cornus mas, crocus, cyclamen, frost, hamamelis, hellebore, hellebores, iris reticulata, ornamental grasses, snow, snowdrops, the garden in winter, winter, winter aconite, winter cyclamen, winter garden, winter gardening, witch hazels

A Hill Top Winter Walk

Posted on February 26, 2019 by greenbenchramblings

In mid-February on a cool day with a cold wind we took a walk along the top of Llanymynech Hill on the England/Wales border. Jude and I regularly meet up with a group of friends from our college days back … Continue reading →

Posted in countryside, landscapes, light quality | Tagged borderlands, country walks, countryside, hillside walk, the Marches, winter

My Garden Journal 2018 – December

Posted on January 18, 2019 by greenbenchramblings

Here we are with the final visit to my Garden Journal 2018, as we discover what has been going on at out Avocet patch in December. It has been a year of difficult weather for us gardeners with freezing winds, … Continue reading →

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The Dingle Garden in December

Posted on January 16, 2019 by greenbenchramblings

Here we are with the final report of our monthly visit to the Dingle Gardens near Welshpool. As we drove down to Welshpool the weather just could not make its mind up what it was going to do, sunny with … Continue reading →

Posted in colours, garden design, garden paths, garden photography, gardening, gardens, gardens open to the public, lakes, light, light quality, ornamental trees and shrubs, Powis, Powys, shrubs, trees, Wales, water in the garden, woodland, woodlands | Tagged foliage, foliage colour, foliage plants, gardens of Powys, glaucous foliage, shrubs in winter, The Dingle Welshpool, trees and shrubs, variegated foliage, variegation, winter, winter garden, winter gardening, winter shrubs, woodland, woodland garden, woodland gardening

Simply Beautiful No 20 in a very occasional series

Posted on July 8, 2018 by greenbenchramblings

As we struggle to keep our garden going in our current drought and extremly high temperatures, here is a post to remind us of cooler times! Hellebores! Everyone loves them. Here are some of the latest colours from breeder of … Continue reading →

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Early Spring Light in a Woodland Garden

Posted on April 29, 2018 by greenbenchramblings

March at the Dingle woodland garden at The Dingle and Nursery near Welshpool proved to be a time with special light when the sun appeared for odd periods. I am sharing some of my photos taken of the landscape and … Continue reading →