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Post by Joyce on Mar 8, 2015 8:39:00 GMT
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Post by Joyce on Mar 14, 2015 12:27:38 GMT
First plough your field - getting ready for beans. First ever flower on cherry plum - Breezy or hand shake? Faces - been very good through the winter
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Post by rgsp on Mar 17, 2015 13:36:53 GMT
Field Maple cut into planks for seasoning Firewood cut to bits small enough for me to be able to lift and put into the big barrow Fresh firewood "bricks" cut from the bigger lumps shown above.
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Post by Joyce on Mar 28, 2015 12:20:26 GMT
Flowering plants Mothering Sunday present - young gerberas with up coming buds. Re-flowering of orchid bought last year. Christmas Present, nearly over. Camelia now in peat instead of garden ditto
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Post by Joyce on Apr 5, 2015 10:31:45 GMT
April and we're onto G & H
Come on folks this is easy - Garden, Homestead? surely. Starting with Garden Hyacinths - the scent by the back door is wonderful Instead of planting up this Hanging basket for spring I decided to find pots to fit so they could be removed easily. The sparras love the matting for theit nests, no doubt our house will one day be insulated with the stuff! Garden flower, first of the Fritillaria Meleagris, watched over by Myrtle. Garden shrub Bottom of the Garden new Hedging/thicket plants
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Post by matthew on Apr 6, 2015 19:05:23 GMT
I seem to have missed March Ooops So better late than never Fritillarias and we're now in April and on G and H?? how about Heucheras? and a Heucherella
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Post by rgsp on Apr 13, 2015 14:47:50 GMT
Garden wall with Clematis Armandii - which should have flowered in late February, but now it's got round to it, it's doing well Good choices if you want to grow Magnolias on alkaline soild are Magnolia Stellata, seen here by the southern arm of the moat, and Magnolia Grandiflora which grows by the house wall but isn't out yet. Glossy Hound with the usual disreputable tennis ball Glade in the wood, containing True Oxlips. These are fairly unusual outside of a small area of Suffolk and North Essed - almost everywhere else the flowers known as oxlips are in fact primrose-cowslip hybrids, otherwise known as False Oxlips. They are recognisably different, but only to an expert. Happy looking Leucojums (Snowflakes). They start flowing about in the middle of the snowdrop varieties, and carry on until the end of the daffs, and even more importantly they like living in our wood, and the clumps make up a bit every year. They don't appear to spread by either seed or any means other than bulb division, so if we wanted a solid carpet of them, it would mean splitting some of the clumps and re-planting them over a wider area. Ground covering Wood Anemones (Anemone Nemorosa). These spread about a foot each year by underground runners, but it would be a slow old business covering the whole of a wood that way, so if and when we can be bothered, another bit of clump splitting and re-planting may be indicated. Occasional outliers do crop up, so they probably do propagate by seed occasionally as well - as do both daffodils and bluebells.
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Post by stockslave on Apr 22, 2015 11:12:36 GMT
H Hereford
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Post by Joyce on Apr 24, 2015 9:14:06 GMT
Hanging Garland
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Post by 4wd on Apr 27, 2015 8:44:08 GMT
Grass Next to The Hall
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Post by Joyce on May 17, 2015 9:54:35 GMT
Is May proving tricky? I & J
Here's one taken yesterday - Intimidated by 5 magpies! The camera picked him out better than the eye was doing.
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Post by Joyce on May 17, 2015 19:18:52 GMT
Iris, one of only 3 from some cheap bulbs. Iceberg with a hint of pink this year Just a bit on the wild side
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Post by Joyce on May 25, 2015 9:33:09 GMT
Just a few May morning pics Icons of May Broom, old teasel head and new young teasel
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Post by matthew on May 26, 2015 6:57:45 GMT
One of Amber's twins Ivan
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Post by wr on May 29, 2015 20:07:00 GMT
One of Amber's twins Ivan Is that a parthenaise Pat?
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