Winter Blues

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Hi Everyone,

Not been on here for a few weeks with one thing and another so thought i would drop by and see how everyone is coping with the great british weather!

As i only really got interested in gardening in April this year, winters have never really bothered me before, but oh not now! Now i’m having gardening withdrawal symptoms. I get up in the morning to go to work, and i cant see the garden because its still dark. I arrive home from work and i cant see the garden because its gone dark. So now i’m beginning to wonder whether i ever did actually have a garden at all!

The last few weekends have been spent shifting what felt like thousands of leaves from the borders and the lawn, only to have to repeat the exercise again the following week. Then i’ve been wrapping plants in fleece to protect them. Again, this is something i’ve never done before, but now that i’ve been bitten by the bug, i’m conscious of losing plants we’ve spent money on. So now there are odd ghost shaped forms dotted around the place.

Then after the winds we had the other week, i woke to find one of my greenhouses had blown over (granted they are the plastic ones but thats not the point is it!). I discovered this while standing at the kitchen window eating breakfast on a day off. Well, breakfast was put on hold while i sprinted outside, (Linford would have been proud!) wellies afoot, dressing gown and wet hair – somewhat chilly i can tell you, to try to erect it again and save the plants that had been sitting inside it. Thankfully most were ok. Then when i’d sorted that i turned back to the house to see that 3 lots of fleece and come undone, blown off the plants and were strewn across the garden!

The garden just looks so sorry for itself and i feel so sorry for it too. I’m ticking the days off the calender until the sun starts to shine and we can all get out there and tend to our plants.

Here’s a couple of photos from the other week just as the sun was setting. If you look closely on the third one, you can just make out our resident Robin.

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http://media.growsonyou.com/photos/blog_photo/image/58344/main/DSCI0109.jpg!

And since then…well there’s been the snow.

These were taken this morning

All my pots filled with spring bulbs have now disapeared under mounds of snow – do i leave this on them to insulate or take it off asap? So all in all, i think it can be said i have the winter blues.

Roll on spring…..PLEASE :0)

• 4 Dec, 2010
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