No chance of seeing open crocuses today. it is so dull and wet, such a disappointment after yesterday, but my yellow paperwhites (paperyellows?) have started to open and the perfume is wonderful coming from the conservatory as the hyacinths are in full bloom too. No chance of planting the garlic today, but we are promised two dry days Tuesday and Wednesday so should get it in then. .It is very mild too and no frost forecast all week so the daffs outside will be opening their buds soon and the blossom on the wild cherry tree.
I was outside digging this morning and my back was complaining - I came in feeling quite despondent - then I read your recent posts and saw your pics and went out again re-energised.
Now I've dug and raked the bare part of the veg patch and OH has dug out the tree roots at the edge for me. The twigs that were blown down in the storms have all been raked up and the garden is full of hope and promise again.
Thanks for the inspiration Happymarion
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
So glad to have been of help. Hope you had a nice hot bath and some paracetamo; for that backache! i think the best inspiration is a nice sunny day but they have been so few and far between lately.
Oh hat a glorious day for gardening again - 11 degrees, feels warm as no wind and hazy sunshine. Spent two hours cutting back ivy in the spinney as the blackbirds have eaten all the black berries now and are regaling themselves on the cotoneaster berries. They have not touched the hundreds of rosehips yet so still no need for birdseed. I planted twenty cloves of Solent Wight garlic by the autumn sown ones for comparison for Mr. Fothergills Trials and took my camera crocus hunting as they open in the sun.
Hello again Marion - it really has been lovely in the sunshine - between the showers. It is such a pleasure to see everything bursting forth in your garden.
thought I'd just share some crocus and rosehips with you, and the fascinating euphorbia myrsinites which do so well both here and in my vertical rock garden in the Languedoc.
Sorry - I don't think I've quite got the hang of uploading photos yet - some of these seem to have rotated - ah well, we seniors must continue to learn new skills!
My shady bed is full of double snowdrops, amongst cyclamen coum (and some low growing geraniums, dormant right now) - strange to think they will be completely concealed once the Allium Christophii and Crocosmia Lucifer take over later in the year.
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And lastly for now as i have lots of planting to do for Mr. F
othergill. up the butterfly garden and spinney on feb. 16th.
No chance of seeing open crocuses today. it is so dull and wet, such a disappointment after yesterday, but my yellow paperwhites (paperyellows?) have started to open and the perfume is wonderful coming from the conservatory as the hyacinths are in full bloom too. No chance of planting the garlic today, but we are promised two dry days Tuesday and Wednesday so should get it in then. .It is very mild too and no frost forecast all week so the daffs outside will be opening their buds soon and the blossom on the wild cherry tree.
Happymarion - lovely pics - thank you
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I was outside digging this morning and my back was complaining - I came in feeling quite despondent - then I read your recent posts and saw your pics and went out again re-energised.
Now I've dug and raked the bare part of the veg patch and OH has dug out the tree roots at the edge for me. The twigs that were blown down in the storms have all been raked up and the garden is full of hope and promise again.
Thanks for the inspiration Happymarion
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
So glad to have been of help. Hope you had a nice hot bath and some paracetamo; for that backache! i think the best inspiration is a nice sunny day but they have been so few and far between lately.
Lovely photos, Marion. Spring has certainly arrived in your garden. Is that double white hellebore "Mrs Betty Ranicar"?
Dove has one, then I bought one. Its lovely.
Had no name when it came in a picotee collection. But it is quite lovely and a good doer, fidgetbones.
Oh hat a glorious day for gardening again - 11 degrees, feels warm as no wind and hazy sunshine. Spent two hours cutting back ivy in the spinney as the blackbirds have eaten all the black berries now and are regaling themselves on the cotoneaster berries. They have not touched the hundreds of rosehips yet so still no need for birdseed. I planted twenty cloves of Solent Wight garlic by the autumn sown ones for comparison for Mr. Fothergills Trials and took my camera crocus hunting as they open in the sun.
Hello again Marion - it really has been lovely in the sunshine - between the showers. It is such a pleasure to see everything bursting forth in your garden.
thought I'd just share some crocus and rosehips with you, and the fascinating euphorbia myrsinites which do so well both here and in my vertical rock garden in the Languedoc.
Sorry - I don't think I've quite got the hang of uploading photos yet - some of these seem to have rotated - ah well, we seniors must continue to learn new skills!
My shady bed is full of double snowdrops, amongst cyclamen coum (and some low growing geraniums, dormant right now) - strange to think they will be completely concealed once the Allium Christophii and Crocosmia Lucifer take over later in the year.