The heat has sapped my energy so completely that all I can manage are a few photographs I took from our visit on Tuesday; hopefully they speak for themselves: And last but not least:
Archive for the ‘Plants’ Category
28 Mar
Mesmerising Magnolias
On Tuesdays I spend the day gardening in a wonderful garden that sits at the top of gently inclining hill and is surrounded by farm land. The garden is around one and half acres and has numerous and very large beds in which grow a tremendous variety of plants, including many very large shrubs which [...]
18 Dec
Putting the Dahlias to bed
The relatively warm weather through November and the start of December has meant that the Dahlias have kept going longer than might otherwise have been expected; the first frost was only experienced at the end of the first week of December, the Dahlias blackening under the touch of icy fingers. Use a fork to gently [...]
10 Dec
A frosty morning
Last night was the first really cold night that we have had this winter, down to about -5oc or so. It seems odd to be writing such a thing on the 10th December when ordinarily the cold weather would have well and truly set in and plants would not be sending forth new flower buds; [...]
21 Nov
Natural Splendour #6
Still looking good in the garden and has put on substantial growth since being bought at Wollerton Old Hall earlier in the year.
24 Oct
Natural Splendour #5
Salvias are still providing some lovely colour at the moment: Salvia involucrata ‘Joan’ is a wonderful magenta colour and S. atrocyanea is a stunning blue (picture to follow when I get round to taking one!).
9 Sep
Natural Splendour #4
A little later to the party than its larger relative c. ‘Lucifer’ but a welcome splash of colour when many things are starting to go over.
7 Sep
Survival of the fittest
Having a few different varieties of Salvia in the garden, and not entirely confident that they will be hardy enough to see through the winter should it be similar to the last, I have taken cuttings from all of them in the hope that should the parent plant succumb to an ill wind, I will [...]
22 Aug
Wollerton Old Hall Garden
Yesterday Katherine and I visited Wollerton Old Hall Garden, a garden I had come across by chance whilst browsing the gardening sections of the various national newspapers. Bunny Guinness, writing in the Telegraph, enthuses about the place so on visiting my parents in Manchester we made the stop at Wollerton in North Shropshire to judge [...]
5 Aug
Catching up…or at least trying to!
The past six weeks have been very busy, both in the garden and beyond. My wife (AKA Florist in the Forest) has had a number of weddings to do for which I have been the delivery boy; we’ve also had a stall at the Penshurst Farmers Market (where we will be again tomorrow morning if [...]
Welcome to my miniscule part of the universe!On this blog you can catch up with what I've been upto in the garden, and pretty much anything else to do with gardens, gardening and plants. I'll also drop in some views on any number of other things, including travels and adventures.
Who's saying what?