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I am with you Jaqualine
Like Jacky, sorry for familiarity with name but I cannot spell!! anyway I am with you on fleecing up, I have already covered our 4-5ft tree fern which has been fab this year although it was one we inherited again from previous owner of house, we are learning to care for planting. Last winter we made a botch job but it survived and thrived so extra care this year as for the white being it now looks like I think I will but a hat on it and make it into a snowman for winter. I did get a scare like my other half when it seemed to glow in the dark!
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Does anyone else have a garden that's a garden all year or is it just me?
In the sticks near Peterborough
Not just you Nut
That's good chicky. I was a bit worried there
In the sticks near Peterborough
Year round garden. A few pots go into cold frame and that's it.
I don't buy anything that needs to be mollycoddled......no time to fuss.
To include our tree fern in the coming festivities I bought an orange bauble I have a hat and scarf sooooo snowman is on his way in December I will post a photo
Might not give us such a fright every time we see it.
I'm in the process of stuffing my polytunnel with tenders. I love the contrast between the bareness of " the garden" in winter and the exhuberance in summer.
So I spend a couple of days filling the tunnel and a couple emptying it. In the great scheme of things, it's a few days a year.. I rather enjoy it.
It also leaves me lots of bare soil I can smother in mulch .
Ah, that's good Tetley. A garden is never dormant is it? Sometimes it's hidden under snow, but not for long usually. There's always something. The cyclamen, lovely leaves over winter and coum building up to flower. Looking for the first peeping snowdrops or aconites, which comes first? not always the same.
Evergreens, coloured branches, emerging growth. It hasn't gone to bed.
Long live the winter garden
In the sticks near Peterborough
Gave up on tender plants a few years ago Verdun. . . . not enough time now to deal with them.
Good evergreen structure, bulbs in ground and pots, spring blossom on lots of shrubs and lots of spring flowering plants.
Love walking round to see what's poking through the ground or coming into bud.
it is lovely reading what you all do with your gardens....i think i may be a non fleecer if i plan it right? We did lose two bay trees in pots and two cordeline at the porch a few years ago when temp went down to -17 deg here, not sure even fleece could have held the cold back on those nights...love the knitted xmas tree and your photos of the tree fern....i must admit they do look fab in the garden tho, work the effort to wrap up