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Post by 4wd on Aug 2, 2018 20:37:59 GMT
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Post by 4wd on Aug 3, 2018 8:50:28 GMT
the gate
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Post by 4wd on Aug 7, 2018 21:14:52 GMT
It's Christmas! Test of solar powered lights £5.99 from Yorkshire Trading shop. They will go on a small conifer I guess, and can flash but not twinkle... probably.
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Post by 4wd on Aug 13, 2018 8:56:42 GMT
Interesting old tree. I do recall the regrowth being quite small in the 1970s, but I think it had fallen sometime in the early 1960s, I might guess winter of 1962/3
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Post by Joyce on Aug 14, 2018 22:22:38 GMT
Well he must have flashed by as I didn’t spot him!
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Post by 4wd on Aug 15, 2018 8:35:44 GMT
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Post by rgsp on Aug 18, 2018 11:08:06 GMT
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Post by matthew on Sept 1, 2018 8:10:22 GMT
Autumn colour around my patch. One of those donated urns. I'm loathe to dig these beauties up to replant with winter stuff. But you never know, there might be a tuberous root there. (Begonia 'glowing embers' ) I thought this fuschia was dead after the winter, but it managed to survive. I think it's 'Winston Churchill'. This is a 'Thalia' type fuschia which I sort of adopted a cutting from last year. Ssshhh. Rudbeckia 'cherry brandy', donated by the friend who gave me the urns. Hydrangea 'Lady in Red', donated by another friend as a 3" cutting. Now about 6 years old.
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Post by 4wd on Sept 5, 2018 22:15:46 GMT
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Post by 4wd on Sept 7, 2018 20:45:44 GMT
Farndale yesterday
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Post by 4wd on Sept 23, 2018 20:55:02 GMT
East Mines at Rosedale this afternoon. The arched structures and chimney above are very striking features, and were part of the Ironstone mine processing and loading (onto trains) area. A very ambitious railway took the ore round the head of the dale and over the highest moors to Teesside. The mines produced a lot of ore but profitability was always borderline and they were all closed and abandoned by the 1920s.
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Post by 4wd on Sept 28, 2018 13:39:51 GMT
Baysdale (next valley) this morning. On the moor RH side you can see a round pond which was caused by practice shells fired towards the dale - which was evacuated during the war. Some actually fell even further from the targets which were further upstream. Above that is a ruin reputed to have been a smuggling den. What they smuggled is not stated.
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Post by 4wd on Oct 7, 2018 8:46:39 GMT
Frosty morning - in the valley.
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Post by rgsp on Oct 10, 2018 11:48:06 GMT
Group of autumn crocuses planted 3 years ago, still a compact group. Group of autumn crocuses planted 5 or 6 years ago. If you look VERY carefully, there are a lot of noses coming through as well as the open flowers. Close-up of some of the new noses coming through - more have appeared during the morning. We have some fantastic drifts of hardy cyclamen this year, but even in their hundreds they don't show up at all well in a photograph.
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Post by 4wd on Oct 10, 2018 12:26:05 GMT
I first saw the autumn crocus growing wild in an orchard in northern France, it was quite perplexing at the time as I didnt know there was such a thing! We now have a small clump in the garden but they seem to be diminishing not expanding, but quite a good clump of leaves comes up in the spring.
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