Keeping a garden interesting gets more difficult as autumn slips into winter. The climate here is not warm enough to have nearly as wide a choice of material for winter display as for summer, nor is it cold enough to force me to shut up shop altogether. I have a choice, I can give up…
Tag: hydrangea
Six on Saturday – 17/8/2019
Oh dear, more rain. It was supposed to be dry today. Friday rained all day. At this time of year a rainy day can be an expensive day. I sat at my computer, browsing Parkers catalogue, Peter Nyssen's catalogue, then Potterton's, Avon Bulbs and Ron Scamp's Daffodils, just to mention the ones with whom I…
Six on Saturday – 3/8/2019
Last week Chris in Canada featured six veggies and I all but promised him I'd do the same this week. Sorry Chris, I'll do a separate blog on my veg plot, there's too much going on here in the garden. One. Fuchsia of the week just had to be 'Vera Garcia'. Sid Garcia used to…
Six on Saturday – 27/7/2019
There's too much going on, I've taken photos of at least a dozen things and what makes the cut is pretty much random. I think maybe I'll do another blog on fillers, the plants that get added as the season progresses to plug gaps. That way I can perhaps whittle this lot down to six.…
Six on Saturday – 13/7/2019
It's a few weeks since we last had significant rain so the garden is caught between full summer flowery blowsiness and dusty tiredness. Watering accounts for the lion's share of gardening activity, though I need to pick blackcurrants and that will eat up a few hours. One. Habranthus brachyandrus. I bought a little pot of…
Six on Saturday – 8/9/2018
I was going to go and collect my onions from the allotment but it's just started raining. Today may not be the day I had planned. Tomorrow we're off down west to the rare Plant Fair at Tremenheere and a jolly round the Dahlia field at Varfell. I'm expecting it to be one of the highlights…
Six on Saturday – 15-7-2017
One. So much in flower, picking six becomes difficult. OK, a bit of lumping together: Dahlias, I grow a few, but then again... Such flamboyance, such joie de vivre. Dahlias, especially en masse, have an unrivalled capacity for putting smiles on peoples faces, even mine. Some I leave in, some I lift, then put back…
Six on Saturday: 10-6-2017
One. A cone from my beautiful Pinus parviflora 'San Bo' that I cut down yesterday. A close up lens and photo stacking creates an opportunity to look closely at something I usually walk past with barely a glance. Two. You can pretty much work out from this picture that you are facing north. Prevailing wind…
Hydrangeas
Hydrangeas are to an extent the victims of their own success. There are very few plants to rival the mophead macrophylla hydrangeas for providing the maximum flower display for the minimum of effort. As a result they are absolutely everywhere and familiarity rapidly breeds contempt. The good news is that they are also a rare…
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