Gardening
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Lenten Rose
We saw this beautiful plant by our garage door today – it is a Lenten Rose (a sort of Hellebore). Apparently the beautiful markings are there for any Queen bumble bees which are…
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Garden coming up now
Lots of little plants poking through now. As well as the snowdrops (some are now out), we have crocuses coming out as well as a plant with the rather unattractive name of “stinking…
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More early spring
I had a look at the garden today having looked out of the kitchen window to see this. At first I thought it was a “Pussy Willow”, but in fact it is a…
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Walk into Spring
R went for a walk today when I was at church. One of the hymns today was “Awake my soul” – I couldn’t help thinking of J when we got to the line…
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Cats and keyboards
Why do cats like keyboards so much? It has got to be just that they like stopping people working so that they can have their slaves’ full attention. Amber had a go at…
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Supervision
I went out to clear what was left of the leaves this afternoon. They are all gone, apart from bizarrely, a single red apple bravely clinging on. I had almost finished when the…
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Fairy Rings and pressed flowers
I noticed that we have some “fairy rings” of mushrooms on our lawn. They haven’t affected the grass and I think they are rather sweet (although if you search for information about them…
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Two Gardeners
There are leaves all over our back garden, very pretty but they will ruin the lawn if they are left to rot. I spent some time raking them up, and then J came…
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Cat and mushrooms
We have a fantastic crop of mushrooms at the moment – not only this huge one, but others on the front lawn in more or less the traditional “fairy ring” formation. I keep…
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And then there were two…
I felt that the basement was lacking a certain something, so we purchased a second aspidistra. The original plant – called Distra is going strong – he was pretty small when we got…
