Shirley_tulip's Blog archive

Patience rewarded ...

I was given a gardening voucher on my birthday last year (August), then another at...

I heard it through the Grapevine.

For a couple of weeks now, through our lounge patio doors, we have seen a female...

Bugs ... good and bad

I was in the garden earlier, before the very welcome rain started falling, and was...

Such a treat!

Yesterday morning we set off on a twenty minute drive to one of our favourite garden...

This could be the last time ...

that this pretty Ceanothus will look as gorgeous as this. It was planted in May 2013...

Palm Sunday ... please take a walk with me.

Early this morning, whilst writing my diary entry for yesterday, not much different...

Frustrating times ...

With the restrictions now in place to try to prevent further spread of the COVID-19...

First blog of 2020

It's been a fraught January with one thing and another, having to upgrade from Windows...

Final walk of 2019

Yesterday we drove to Arundel, parked up and took a walk from the Castle entrance,...

Merry Christmas one and all!

This is not a traditional Christmas tree by any means as it is constructed from...

Farewell Mum

It is with immense sadness I write to say that my dear Mum passed away, at the great...

Bees and Hoverflies

are loving the Sedums in the garden ... Helianthus 'Lemon Queen' is another flower...