The wisteria is out, the May tree is in bloom, the azaleas are in bud, the wild garlic is in flower – and I have been buying up Columbia Road….. For more see the garden pages.
The blossom seasons continues…..
Thanks to the continuing blasts from the east (it is actually hailing as I write this!) our blossom season has been almost endlessly prolonged. This is our forsythia, still going month after it first burst into bloom. See the garden pages for more.
Fox play…..
Pretty, aren’t they? Even prettier when they were all out in the garden. Not their best year as they rushed out too early in our February heat wave and then got rather confused as to what they were doing. But none the less pretty. All dead now – but….all militarily upright so, I thought, would …
Garden update
Just a quick update for those who are interested… One red camellia blossom – and a lot of rather battered Ice Follies…. Read on…
Garden update
Just to alert those of you who find gardens a welcome relief from Brexit that there is now a short update on my garden pages.
Hacking bracken and looking to the future
Dorset in January… Well, Dorset in January if you happen to live in the middle of a wood where the bracken and fern are rampant and where the deer decimate anything which does not have vicious thorns to protect itself. Believe it or not but there is a rather fine hamamelis tree buried under that lot. …