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Winter wonders

Posted: 03/01/2013 at 17:27

And the beautifully perfumed Daphne "Jaqueline Posnill" kept drawing me back to

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smell it.

Winter wonders

Posted: 03/01/2013 at 17:12

Two varieties of Euonymus gunnei

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 brightening up a dull January day.

Winter wonders

Posted: 03/01/2013 at 17:05

A lare flowering Colchicum

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Agrippinum

Winter wonders

Posted: 03/01/2013 at 16:54

This hellebore in bloom at the Bristol botanic Garden is called John's slate

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Winter wonders

Posted: 03/01/2013 at 16:44

And the Coronilla citrina which never

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 fails to flower most of the year

Winter wonders

Posted: 03/01/2013 at 16:38

And this lovely winter shrub I had not noticed before for colour -

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Winter wonders

Posted: 03/01/2013 at 16:13

Then the beaiutiful Iris unguilaris

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Winter wonders

Posted: 03/01/2013 at 16:06

My first day of 2013 as a volunteer at the Bristol Botanic garden and I knew it would not disappoint.  First the lovely hellebores -

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Garlic

Posted: 02/01/2013 at 10:55

Don't worry.  The garlic I planted in November is fifteen inched high!

Winter wonders

Posted: 02/01/2013 at 08:32

So do i, Bev as I was amazed at the number of birds that accompanied me in my labours yesterday.  It was so uplifting after seeing so few recentky.  The holly berrieshve now all been eaten but rosehips still abound so no need for birdseed yet.

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Talkback: Gardening in Russia

Awww, it was the same for my sister gardening in Edmonton in Canada, James. It was amazing how much they could grow in their very short thr... 
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The sun shone brightly enough for my tulips to open up,something that thrills me every spring. 
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You would not think from seeing the wonderful display our hellebores are putting on in the Bristol Botanic Garden that they once had the dre... 
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Talkback: Good things about February

Oh, and Iris unguilaris is at its height though it can flower for ten months of the year. Pancake day has just been and I made 32 of them. ... 
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Talkback: Waiting for the snow to thaw

Ah. James. I already have a duck pond at the kitchen door and loads of birdseed and crumbled fat balls on the paths. lots of eucalyptus bar... 
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I have vowed only to grow early potatoes anf harvest them before the dreaded blight, and only Gardeners; Delight or similar tomatoes and yel... 
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Happy New Year to you too, James and my resolution is the same as it has been for as many years as I can remember for just that - to make it... 
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Talkback: Winkworth Arboretum

So with you there, Pippa, as long as it is not too cold. Stretching my legs at the Brisol Bot. Garden on Thursday in between cleaning seed ... 
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A combination of gardening and cooking is long overdue. 
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Talkback: December gardening jobs

I have to go up to my spinney and cut cornus sticks which are now bright red to stick into my spreads of white heather at the front gate whi... 
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