Not ready for Spring yet. Have daffodils and tulips to plant and I'm busy decorating and making curtains in our new cottage. I'm also enjoying the autumn colour. Drove through Thetford Forest today.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I found myself on youtube and in the kitchen doing my dahlia tubers justice. I am hovering over my October Sweetpea sowings, and also wondering why my chosen arch has gone up from £87 to £99 on Amazon. I changed my screensaver to a lovely July memory, so basically, I am twiddeling my thumbs until Spring.
I did plant a lovely David Austin climbing rose today and congratulated myself for preparing the ground in advance 👏
I was twice in Singapore for a couple of weeks each time, a place which has no clear-cut seasons. And I remember wondering what it would feel like to actually live in such a place where the passing of time is not subject to the rhythm of the seasons as it is with us. How can those people appreciate, or indeed understand such expressions & texts as:
Now is the winter of our discontent.
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.
Le temps a laissé son manteau.
De vent, de froidure et de pluie,
Et s’est vêtu de broderie,
De soleil luisant, clair et beau.
After this summer I've been looking forward to winter for months. Time to get the garden straight and get some big jobs done that summer and rock hard soil have stopped me doing. The garden seems so tired after a hard summer so I can't wait to see it all wake up refreshed in the spring but I enjoy the rest period as much as any other season. If we get a very wet winter I might change my mind though.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Retail therapy is what is needed, and if you don't have any, get yourself some winter flowering clematis. Ours is full of flowers here (Darn Sarf), and busy with bumble bees. They flower in the cold winter with snow too.
No, is the short answer ! I normally get a bit depressed (not SAD or anything like that) when the clocks go back, but we have been so busy last year and this, that l hardly noticed it. It's usually end of January when the evenings are noticeably drawing out that l get "twitchy". I try not to wish my life away, but it is nice to sow those first seeds of the year.
YES! It'll do nothing but blow rain and sulk in mist from now until march here, unless we are lucky and get some snow. Can't go out in the garden without wellies and full waterproofs for months, can't walk on the lawns (too wet) Someone said snowdrops will be out soon? 6 months for that here! SIX (they come in April) Below picture is what part of my garden looks like in April, the spring bulbs are out, but 6 months to wait until that happens. I start onions inside in February so that's when I start to get very twitchy.
No, we haven't even had winter yet! Hoping for just enough cold frosty weather to kill off the nasties, and plenty of nice steady rain to replenish the ground water. Can do without storms, wind and any more than the occasional dusting of snow though!
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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I did plant a lovely David Austin climbing rose today and congratulated myself for preparing the ground in advance 👏
De vent, de froidure et de pluie,
Et s’est vêtu de broderie,
De soleil luisant, clair et beau.
They flower in the cold winter with snow too.