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My Bristol Garden in 2015

Happy New Year, everybody and welcome to my new thread.  As I garden in Bristol which is now the Green Capital of Europe. I think it behoves me to be as environmentally aware in my garden as I can.  So helpful hints will be appreciated from you all.  The traditional Scottish toast of "Long may your lum reek" meaning Long may your chimney smoke will not be appropriate but rather " here's to great fruit and veg harvests in your own gardens".

It is forecast to reach 13degrees in Bristol today with some rain so the garden is getting off to a good start.  I shall be popping up soon for some fresh chives from the garden as I have a vegetarian son coming for lunch so need them to sprinkle on his soup from last year's produce and put in his omelette.  If it is not too wet I will take my camera and search out the flowers to show you.  My blackberry bush "Reuben"had blossom on it yesterday.

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  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,617

    Happy New Year, Marion. 

    I'm sure your new thread will be as interesting as last year.image

     

  • flumpy1flumpy1 Posts: 3,117
    Happy New Year Marion, looking forward to reading another year with you, Happy gardening 2015 image
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,023

    Good morning, Marion, and Happy New Year. I, too, am looking forward to your new gardening year.

    Wow 13°! It was -8° in my spot in Dordogne this morning and forecast is for +2° this afternoon.

    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • happymarionhappymarion Posts: 4,591

    As promised - 19 pictures of flowers in my garden this New Years Day.

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  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,023

    Gosh, looks more like autumn than winter! image

    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • happymarionhappymarion Posts: 4,591

    Some like the heathers and chaenomeles and bergenia I am used to seeing now butgazanias still in flower outside!!!  The primroses do look lovely against the deep brown of the fallen leaves.

  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,352

    Happy New Year Marion - I started looking at your previous thread part way through the year. It was very interesting and I look forward to dipping in and out of this thread throughout 2015.

    You have quite a few things in flower there - I'm on the other side of the country in a not-so-sheltered garden in Suffolk where it is currently +7C. I only have the 'usual suspects' in flower (Viburnum bod., winter honeysuckle, a couple of hellebores & a small winter box) but there are signs of things to come..

    Your garden looks lovely - I shall enjoy virtual-visiting it this year image

    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • flumpy1flumpy1 Posts: 3,117

    Marion you wouldn't think it was winter in your garden, your photos are lovely, I've just the one yellow Gazanias flowering image

  • happymarionhappymarion Posts: 4,591

    Strangely all the gazanias left flowering are the yellow ones, flumpy 1.  Forgot to look at the sarcococca Topbird but I could smell it so must be in flower.  First ecologically friendly job is to empty out the wonderful wormcast  compost from my wormery and give it a good clean and start it up again.  i will have to dilute the compost with used potting compost before using it for mulching.

     

  • happymarionhappymarion Posts: 4,591

    The local BBC news (points west) has just been previewing what is happening in our Green Capital Year in bristol and it includes trying to get Bristol to be sustainable in food - my efforts to feed myself, family, friends and neighbours from my garden will help towards that.There will be an art installation of a boat moored in Leigh Woods (global warming) and over 700 orgaonisations have already signed up to help.  I know the Botanic Garden is one of those.  The students at bristol University are already the best at recycling in the country too.  All very, very exciting.  what a start to 2015.  The weathermen say we may reach 14 degrees today and colder but sunny tomorrow.  The cycle of alternate wet and dry , mild and a bit colder seems to be on again.  No wonder I have so many plants in flower.  But what of pollinators - none sighted so far.

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