Even in this weather, gardening jobs to do

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-6C overnight and not set to go above freezing. I need to get some fleece on the alpine house plants.
On the way down I notice even the livestock are frozen!

Some of the plants look really beautiful with icy addition

Here’s the alpine house

A tray of cyclamen from Ashwood nurseries, many treasures waiting to flourish, I hope!

Cyclamen seedlings which germinated this year

A Hellebore, also from Ashwood’s nursery, waiting to plant this and a few others out.

Some primula allionii needing attention

A dionysia tapetodes, farinose form, planted in a block of tufa. Looks to be doing well this year, famous last words, and should be closely covered with a mass of yellow flowers come the spring

And so to bed, as much horticultural fleece as I could find over the benches in preparation for the big freeze.

Before I covered up the benches I took some of the primulas in for some grooming. Here’s primula “Wharfdale Buttercup” before and after, along with the mound of dead leaves. The allionii and pubescens primulas take a lot of care and attention but are worth every minute. Buttercup looks to have gone very leggy but I see some good cuttings here.

Here are a couple of better looking Wharfdale hybrids, firstly “ Wharfdale Scimitar”, notice the toothed edging and some buds forming.

Secondly, "Wharfdale Village” with its lovely farinosed leaves. I’ll put some pictures up of these in flower in the Spring.

Well that’s todays blog. Oh, I nearly forgot, some Cyclamen Society Expedition seeds arrived today

• 5 Jan, 2010
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