I looked out my window this morning and saw a vanishing world,Frost re-flowering the smoke tree. . .. . . with a haze of crystalline ice,While bulbs are a-bursting,Already hopeful for spring.
Category: Garden
Amaryllis
I went out to the summerhouse the other day and discovered this: I hadn't seen the flower stalk coming up - I have several amaryllis and to be honest I haven't been paying them much attention: they bloom indoors in winter. They're often sold around Christmas for that reason. This year I've had one bloom toward the end …
Firsts
Here are several garden-related firsts of last week: First time I managed to get a vaguely reasonable photo of the blonde starling, though it's still pretty blurred - the creature will keep moving for some reason. . .! I don't think it can be albino because it isn't pure white and doesn't have red eyes, and it's …
Where did June go?
On the whole June has gone by in days of cloud and rain, everyone still wrapped in layers of trousers and long sleeves and jumpers. But, as promised, here's a more recent picture of my banana flower. (Taken rather longer than I thought to get it here mind you.) The garden is moving along through …
May Garden
During May we've gone from Spring bulbs to full summer greenery and flowers. Only now the wallflowers are near enough finished, and the blossoms, and the wisteria has transitioned from purple-yellow flowers to lime-green leaves! The roses (which unfortunately I don't have pictures of yet) are covered in flowers - great walls of yellow and …
Belated Post
Reading others posts I often feel like I'm being small-minded or self-centred here, going on about my life and things I'm doing when they're talking about world issues and debating the nature of people and society. Then I remind myself that not everything has to be important and world-changing, that although obviously there are issues that …
Planting on: Seeds to Seedlings
Now is the time that, having sown at least a couple of lots of seeds – for example, one lot in March and another in April – you realise that despite your efforts to spread them out, they're all coming up at the same time. Which means they'll all need potting on at the same time. Which means you're going to …
Weather Report
Couldn't resist sharing this, because it's ridiculous even for us. Believe it or not as you will! Today the weather consisted of the following for me: Bright sun warm enough that I was outside without a jumper Light white cloud A cold north wind Rain - heavy, light and in between the two Hail Heavy …
Late Spring Flowers
Flowers (I would hope) most people have seen in some form by now, whether in their own gardens, at the side of the road, or in someone else's garden: Daffodils and Tulips, along with several other bulbs are well-known spring flowers, but even these have many different types and they all flower at different times, for …
The Mini-Summer
Has anyone else noticed how we have a mini-summer sometime about Easter? The weather goes gorgeous for a week or so, then we're back to rain and cloud and hoping we'll get a proper, longer demonstration of summer later on. Well, judging by today our mini-summer looks to be over, but it was …
CinderBears Wood 