December in the garden.

Lovely blog, Janey....
I enjoyed the pics and your walk around the garden :o)

Who said winter is deary ?
Well it certainly is not so in your garden Janey :o)

good photos and lovely blog too.

I enjoyed the walk round Janey , it's a real pleasure to see so many plants blooming at this time of the year .. My new Clematis Wisley Cream hasn't flowered yet , I may have to wait until next year for that !
I like the Hebe Louise very much and will be looking out for that , it has gone on my wish list :o)
You captured the Geese flying over marvellously , well done ! what a wonderful sight to see in the morning :o)

Beautiful pics and great blog, Janey! Enjoyed your garden! There are still many flowering plants in it...

Lovely Janey such an array of vibrant colours to brighten up your garden.

Very jealous ..

lovely pics janey, did you notice a ladybird on the sedum, ;o) love the clematis to, very pretty

Lovely blog Janey. It was - 6.5 here at 8.30am & I would think even colder through the night - no doubt we'll have lost a few things as cannot possibly cover everything in such a large garden. You must be very sheltered to have a lot of these plants still flowering?

Still lots of colour there Janey....that variegated ivy is lovely....If you put it in your pics I can add it to Variegated Plants Shrubs and Trees.......and if you "nominate" it I can pick it up from there..:))

Loved it Janey.......beautiful,,,,,,

Love the blog Janey, lots of great colours and flowers , the clematis is gorgeous, is it a late flowerer or what! I just love the clems to bits! and the sedums are tapestries aren't they I can't pull ours till theyre really rotten and all slimy and gooey cause theyre just so nice to see with their russet colours. Great walk around thanks and what a great pic of the geese too super stuff, more more, encore clap clap aplaud whistle stamp etc etc

Still some colour left I have a hebe in flower as well its similar to yours I dont know its name.

Love the blog Janey...:>)

Wow.....thank you for all those lovely comments on my small garden.....:o) Pleased you enjoyed it TTand Sbg, the sun hardly gets in now Hywel with the walls so these spots of colour are really appreciated....:o)
You may get some flowers end of Winter Amy.....I couldn't resist the Freckles and have an early Xmas pressie from Mum! Louise is really worth having...maybe I can take a cutting......:o)
Thanks Uma and BB....San I did notice that ladybird...not sure if it was frozen or not....:o( We are quite sheltered Cg but east facing....lucky with the walls though....ooh so cold where you are, but no red squirrels here....:o(
Thanks Alice.....after looking at Dds Ivy pics...I had to have a closer look at mine...Lol...
Thanks Milky and Independent....I love those Sedums, next year I'm going to look out for the paler ones....I seem to remember there is a white one too? Pleased you enjoyed your little trip.
Aren't the Hebe's doing well Mavis, we all seem to have them flowering....I never noticed them last winter.........
Thanks Motinot....:o)

aww poor ladybird, should have taken it in janey, wrapped in a blancket with hot water bottle :o))) oh and a cup of hot chocolate heheh

Lovely garden Janey and lots of colour to!

Lovely blog and what a pretty ivy. I have added Wisley cream to my wish list - it's beautiful.

Gorgeous blog!! :~))

Ladybirds don't mind being frozen they have a special antifreeze type liquid in their cell structure that stops damage occurring when they freeze basically it makes the water freeze in very very tiny droplets instead of making an ice cube, so when they thaw they dont burst their cells. This is a fact!

Lovely, lovely! Thanks. :-)))))

My C. 'Wisley Cream' blooms later - I get 'Freckles' first, then 'Lansdowne Gem', then Wisley Cream. Don't ask me why - no idea!

Thanks, Indy - glad to know about ladybirds. :-)

They do prefer not to be popsicles though, and will hibernate in suitable places.

Thanks for that Inde, amazing little creatures! Think I'll go and put in the greenhouse, just in case it's alive....:o)
Thanks Barbara.......Lansdowne Gem...haven't seen that one....would love to see it!

lots to brighten up your garden janey

We've been lucky this year haven't we Holly.....the mild Autumn....December here already...lets hope the Spring comes just as quick...then slows down for 6months..Lol!
San and Inde......ladybird alive and well in the pots in the greenhouse now...it was a little 2 spot....:o)

Thank you for showing me round Lovely shots

Aw...pleased you enjoyed it Donnah....:o)

Beautiful things left there....my garden is very sad now...nothing left virtually!
So nice to virtually walk through yours! :o)

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yes roll on the springtime....... i love looking round the garden to see all the bulbs coming up.........

Aw that's a shame H..Witch.....what type of climate have you there?
Me too Holly!....:o)

Janey...surprisingly we have a fairly moderate climate being in the Gulf Stream! But this year the rains have been killers and striped most plants bare early! =^..^=

Just found you on the map Healerwitch.....I wasn't quite sure whereabouts Delaware was...ooh quite near the Atlantic..and like us you have had heavy rains. I'm lucky in that we're on the North East side of the U.K....it can be cold but dry. On the West side...this last few weeks have been dreadful rains and the worst floods in living memory. The area which is the Lake District has lost many of it's historical stone bridges, cutting people off from work and shops etc., a lot of history washed away......supposed to be climate change again....:o(

Yes Janey, it does seem like climate change!! but there are new reports that dispute that theory...some scientists believe now that it is just part of the climate cycles the earth goes through every so often! Are we to be the next dinasours?

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Yes....we have heard this too HW...and it seems a more likely explanation.... I hope not HW....we'll just have to keep adapting....:o)

Its strange isn't it don't you think , that the rubbishing of the climate change dilema knowledge so hard come by to date should occur just before the major climate talks/convention in a few weeks time, strange also that america is becoming more isolationist again, strange also that the cost of doing the right thing will be sooo prohibitive in this time of recession and that we all need the impetus of free energy use to climb out of the hole the bankers have dug for the world and finally SOOOO strange that the largest growing economy an d the worlds largest buyer of oil second only to the usa (china) has no hope of conforming to limitations or indeed intent to do so and SOOOOOOOOstrange that the worlds major economies (usa, UK etc are now so seriously in hock to the chinese that if they withdrew their financial support our system would collapse literally overnight!!!

Don't buy the hype, we ARE the cause but WE (the western world) can now never be the cure, that is in the hands of the chinese and sorry folks but they DO NOT LIKE US! unable to beat us in an all out war they have controlled us now by undermining all our industries and means of production to control the world through financial means , our one true achilles heal !!

Great photos, still plenty of colour in your garden.

Thanks Janey I enjoyed taking a walk with you, lovely photo`s.....

Love your blog and living next door to a pub...absolute bliss.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Pleased you enjoyed it Fdm, and Lincslass...:o)
Pubs just been bought Judz, its been empty now for about 2 years...we are hearing them making alterations...:o(...it will be a restaurant too, so are looking forward to next summer when it opens......its a lovley old stone building and needs people in it...:o)

Nice trip around your garden, Janey.

Thanks Balcony...like your new pic...:o)

I suppose its we reap what we sow Inde.....and during the industrial revolution when we pumped so much into the atmosphere, then taught so many other countries how to do it, it is coming back now triple-fold. I remember reading David Bellamys thoughts on this topic a few years ago now though and he really believed it was the earths natural cycle.....every few thousand years and the time was ripe again. It does stand to reason though...all the waste that we produce cannot carry on at the rate it has been doing.....advertising and packaging are king for the fat cats....this has to change.

Well,I could be your first customer!!!!

I'll go and tell them to get a move on Judz.......the lady is waiting...Lol!

Thanks Janey, sorry for my little info rant, I'm a little too serious at the min..

Good luck with the restaurant by the way

Thank you Inde for the info...it was really interesting and we need to be informed
the poor old Earth certainly takes some hammering from us. Did you see the program about the frozen baby Mammoth? She was 37,000 years old and yet lived less than a month, the scientists think that in Siberia it had more vegetation and was far more greener than now, climate change again......

A very well made & informative programme, Janey. I was watching it Saturday, on the BBC iPlayer.