happymarion

Winter wonders

It is New year;s day and the rain has let up at lsst and i can take my camera out in my garden to see the beautiful bare bones of the trees and anything else that thrills me in the winter.  so be prepared for some photographs as soon as they are edited - and some enthusing from this gardener who has been suffering from withdrawal symptoms in our dire wet autumn.  What a treat it is to see the winter sun.

Talkback: 2013 in the garden

Garden Leeks

I started with Musselburgh many years ago and have left a leek to go to seed each year which gave me lots of plants to transplant into  rows.  My leeks have just grown better and better eacg year and cost me nothing.  They are doing very well this winter enjoying the mild wet weather.

new years resolution

My New Year's Resolution is the same as the last twenty have been - just to enjoy it all.  No need to worry about space for the children to play or prickly plants or even whether they are poisonous.  I can experiment to my heart's content.

Christmas Greetings

Such wonderful seasonal greetings and ,ovely sentiments.  I want to thank you all for the kind words I have received about my thoughts on gardening and photos and the help I have received to steer my way through IT as it was all foreign to me till I reached the age of eighty.  I do hope everyone has a wonderful Xmas and better gardening conditions next year than this.

TV

And Happymarion has just watched "Loving Miss Hatto" and thoroughly enjoyed it after a hard day's baking.  If all the Xmas programmes are up to that standard I will be very pleased indeed.  As Miss Hatto kept saying "It is all in the music"

TV

There's a lovely opera and Broadway music.

Grow it and eat it

Oh, thank you so much for your support, Zoomer44.  I like your idea very much and so pleased the participants will sit down to eat the fruits of their labours!  Yes, I did notice the piece on Kohlrabi.  I gave a lunch for some of my fellow volunteers from  our Botanic Garden in Bristol to introduce them to kohlrabi that I had grown and it was a great success.  It was a great favourite in Victorian times and still is in many parts of Europe.

Talkback: Goldcrest encounter

Oh, Kate, i hope you have a pair there and can catch site of the babies in the spring. We have them in the Bristol Botanic Garden and the babies are like bumblebees in size. Although the adults love the tops of the conifes, the babies like to buzz around the yew hedges. And buzz they do - they are really fast but the mother is always nearby keeping an eye on them. I just love them and how does such a tiny bird have such a loud song? Happy Xmas.

Grow it and eat it

How about that - the Jan. edition of the mag. has recipes to use winter veg,!

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Winter wonders

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