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I may be temporarily gardenless but . . .
For the first time in 22 years I am not spending spring weekends both coaxing and at the same time taming a garden from its winter state. It is a strange sensation to be without even a windowsill of outdoor … Continue reading
Posted in Flowers, Gardens
Tagged DMs, flower arrangement, flowers, garden, Gardening, moving house, spring bouquet, spring garden, tulip arrangement, whimsey, winter garden
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Tell them summer is over
It is October, but the dahlias just keep on blooming. Some flowers are a little windblown and tatty, and the big blooms of dahlia ‘Crazy Love’ have been nibbled by earwigs, but they are still worth cutting and bringing indoors … Continue reading
High summer flowers – lilies, dahlias and hollyhocks
August in the garden, even when not hot and sunny, has a very different palette to the pastels seen at the beginning of summer. I used to have a bed filled with bright pink echinaceas and hot orange rudbeckias, but … Continue reading
Posted in Flowers, Gardens
Tagged bright colours, dahlias, East Anglia, floral arrangement, flowers, Gardening, hollyhocks, lilies, Norwich, scented, summer
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Oh well – let’s try and look on the bright side
Gardening is all about the turning of the seasons. Clear, bright spring changing to warm and sunny summer, but sometimes the seasons simply won’t play the game. Apparently, this ghastly, unseasonably heavy June rain is down to the jet stream. … Continue reading
Posted in Flowers
Tagged Awakening, bad weather, favourite, Ferdinand Pichard, flowers, Francois Juranville, Gardening, jet stream, Karlsruhe, old fashioned roses, rain, roses
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Have you noticed? – The return of black backgrounds
Recently I’ve spied quite a few photographs of flowers and flower arrangements featuring very dark or black backgrounds. This is not new in the depiction of flowers, but it is a swerve away from the de rigueur of the ‘computer … Continue reading
Catching up on those five buds of potential
Here is the group of five plants that were in bud at the beginning of June. Now two weeks of early summer sun and light rain and . . . we now have the foxgloves out. And the Oriental poppies, … Continue reading
Posted in East Anglia, Flowers, Gardens
Tagged daisies, early morning, flower photography, flowers, foxgloves, garden, Gardening, June, knautia, Oriental poppy, roses, salvia
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Nature does yellow – nobody does it better
It’s that time of year when yellow is big in the garden and often just for a few days you might see people dressed in yellow. For us northern European folks yellow is a notoriously difficult colour to wear successfully. … Continue reading
Posted in Contemporary Culture & Design, Flowers
Tagged daffodils, flowers, forsythia, leather jacket, leather skirt, narcissus, nature, spring, viola, yellow, yellow car
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Oh dear – we all make mistakes!
Back towards the end of June I planted out some Morning Glory seedlings. I usually put a couple in with an early flowering clematis to take over the flowering from mid summer and a couple more that will thread up … Continue reading
Posted in Everyday Photographs, Gardens
Tagged bindweed, Convolvulaceae, convolvulus arvensis, flowers, Gardening, Ipomoea, ipomoea nil, Morning Glory, pretty
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I survived the tail end of hurricane Bertha!
When old mother nature comes knocking at our door in the early hours of the morning what can we expect? I understand from the weather people that the UK has just been hit by a large, summer storm system that … Continue reading
Posted in Flowers, Gardens
Tagged bee balm, bergamot, bronze fennel, flowers, Foeniculum vulgare Purpureum, Hurricane Bertha, monarda, summer storms, survivors
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