I have My Angel here and the flowers are bigger. In Belgium I grew Red Ballon which looked just like the one on GW, flowered for weeks in summer and was always busy with pollinators.
Loved seeing Rachel De Thame looking so well and having a great time making Christmas wreaths but honestly could be used to cheer up a wall or door any time of the year, Sue Kent in her garden inspiration that she is, Joe Lycett I used to like him but if he wants to be Julian Clary he will have to give up doing main stream television work (middle class boy want's to sound like a "peaky blinder") waste of a career, by the way the Christmas celeb Great British sewing bee was much the better for Sarah Pascoe presenting it even with The "Rev" Kate Botley appearing, did you see her on "Strictly it takes two" shocking dress sense for a man of the cloth!
What a lovely article @Fire. It's all so true. The bit about him planting tulips and then going away again really resonated with me. "The Vera Lynn of Covid" 😁.
I can really relate to the article. By Sept I am so wanting to rest from all the gardening chores and by February I'm desperate for the bulbs and blossom to be blooming. The relief of seeing the first snowdrops is visceral.
It IS a lovely article but I couldn't relate to it at all. Winter is catching up time for me: weeding, mulching, edging, collecting leaves, pruning, turning compost heaps, it never stops. I'm more likely to be saying,"Oh no, don't start growing yet, I'm not ready!" than longing for Spring.
It is a lovely article - thank you for highlighting it- and echoes the feelings of many newcomers to gardening ( whether caused/catalysed by lockdown or other changes in personal circumstances pre-covid).
It's an article about being a newbie to gardening and feeling inspiration and delight at a new thing. It's more reflecting the end of GW for the season and willing bulbs to grow.
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Have a look a this - https://clematisontheweb.org/new-clemdetail.cfm?dbkey=511
"The Vera Lynn of Covid" 😁.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.