The weather forecast had promised a bit of brightness but I gave up waiting and took a few dull shots. It was raining soon after, and still is. The garden is down to its bare bones at this time of year and a comparison with the picture I took a year ago shows very few…
End of month view
End of month view -December 2016
At this time of year a bit of sunshine makes a huge difference both to photos of the garden and to the pleasure of being out in it. Today is desperately dull. My various Hakonechloas are providing some colour, as are the evergreens but there isn't a great deal flowering. Just outside the front window…
End of month view – November 2016
Last day of November and for this Cornish garden, the first frost of the season. Did it blacken my dahlias? Well no, because the wind and rain had reduced them to an unsightly mess weeks ago and they were cut down and lifted, or in some cases covered with a heap of leaves, weeks ago. The…
End of month view -September 2016
Shamelessly pinching the idea from Patient Gardener Helen, I am going to do this months eomv as a walk around our small patch of Cornwall. I've put a map at the bottom of the page showing where you are for each photo. (1) If you came through our side gate this would be your first…
End of month view – August 2016
The lack of change between this view now and a month ago belies a definite change in the feel of things. A month ago the floral trajectory was up, now it is unmistakeably down. Around mid August it peaked, timing it badly for the end of month meme. It's now the season of taking stock…
End of month view-July 2016
Another month, another transition, or so it seems to me. July seems to have been the month when the pinks, reds, blues and mauves of early summer yield to the yellows, oranges and scarlets of late summer. I've gone overboard on Dahlias this year. I bought 20 new varieties from Varfell and while a few didn't…
End of month view, June 2016
There's no getting away from the fact that foliage has had a better time of it this month than flowers. Growth of just about everything has been prodigious, except for the things I've failed to protect from slugs, but flowering has been patchy. Foxgloves, mostly self sown pinks, a few planted whites, have been great…
End of month view May 2016
One of the fascinating things about the end of month meme is that it provides an opportunity to compare one month with another. Up until the end of April there seemed to be very little to comment on by way of change, with one month end being little different from the one before. Not so this…
End of month view April 2016
Three months ago we arrived back from seven weeks in Australia thinking that in large measure we'd put winter behind us while we were away. It seems to have been an exceptionally long haul into better weather and though the days are longer and the light brighter, the temperatures are no higher than they've been…
End of month view, March 2016
There's actually quite a lot going on in the garden now, but almost all of it is only visible close up. Shoots are pushing up, buds are swelling, flowers are emerging. From any distance though, it looks the same as it did in January. What I need to do is focus on individuals, not the…
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