Back Again from having had a busy year.

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I am now semi-retired and hope to be a bit more active on this website – I do enjoy reading what members are up to in the garden, and it’s a great place to record for photos.

So here are some highlights of this year.

A new fence after the old one blew down.

The Morello Cherry in full bloom

A delicious meal not quite ready for its customers. When it was, the cherries were stripped within 2 weeks :-)

Almost like the pot Monty Don showed on Tele

A new addition to the garden, called Thalictrum

Pity about the pot, but I think the arrangement looks quite nice

My favourite Iris, but I can’t find its full name

We had some lovely butterflies visiting the garden – this is a Small Heath and below a Speckled Wood

Our Pepsi (who passed away this summer) drinking water from a saucer under a pot – we had 19 lovely years with him

How’s this one for camouflage

I can’t remember when I bought one (maybe three) Crinum Powellii bulb(s) together with a Lavatera & Buddleia. The three plants made a lovely association for a few years, but the Lavatera is no more.
Crinums don’t like to be disturbed, but the plants were smothered in snails this year, and I read somewhere that this is a sign of distress. So I sent the snails packing, gave the plant a hair cut (see below), a feed for the bulbs to last the winter and a blanket for the cold.

I’ll be waiting in anticipation

• 12 Nov, 2015
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