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Garden Diary – It’s Christmas & we’re past the shortest day!
What’s not to be happy about. Christmas festivities and we’ve celebrated the winter solstice. I think none of us can wait to get to the other side of the shortest day, we feel we are heading, albeit slowly, once more back towards the long, warm, days of summer. Having said that, I do like the seasons, I’m quite sure that we wouldn’t appreciate the longer days if we didn’t have the short cold ones. And after all our British climate does produce some truly beautiful gardens. On those dullest of days, I like to spend time looking back at the colourful photos of the summer garden, making plans and generally…
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Garden Diary – Planning, Weather & Christmas Choirs
It’s a time for looking back at photos of how the garden looked this year, and deciding what worked well and what needs improvement. The photographs are an invaluable tool to remind you of how things looked. I was particularly pleased with the dwarf tulips I grew for the first time. And as I grew them in pots I’m quite hopeful that they’ll come again. There were many pictures of my purple rhododendron which is already covered in buds. And lots of the Pink ranunculus which have shot up lots of foliage, I have no idea whether they are supposed to have done that at this time of year. I…
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Christmas Tree Celebration
As it’s Christmas Day tomorrow, I thought I’d publish this weeks blog a day early – I thought you might all be a bit busy tomorrow! Let me start by saying a very happy Christmas to one and all! I thought we’d get into the Christmas spirit with some Christmas trees. Local Christmas Tree Festival We are lucky enough to have had another Christmas tree festival at our local church. As I’ve mentioned before it used to be held inside the church, but Covid moved it outside and that’s where it’s stayed. It’s so much more atmospheric in the churchyard and the frost just added to it. Although we didn’t…
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