HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND A HEALTHY NEW YEAR
I was reminded by a Garden Blogging friend today of how long ago it is since I started this blog. Ten years in February. So much has happened in the last ten years. Many of my Garden blogging friends...
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CHRONIC DISEASE DOES NOT HAVE TO DEFINE YOU.
Happy New Year for 2019. I was reminded in one New Years message not to let your disease define you. Those of us who struggle daily with a chronic illness, in my case Lyme Disease are constantly aware...
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MERROW WARD, RSCH - THANK YOU FOR YOUR CARE.
Home to Merrow at last. This post is to thank the staff on Merrow Ward RSCH for my care last week whilst suffering with a rather nasty case of Pneumonia, plus a viral infection.The care from all the...
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MAY MUSINGS IN THE GARDEN
THE PRESIDENT The President scrambles across the lower branches of Banksiae Banksiae. Maybe the last photo of this Banksiae Banksiae, since taking this I see many of the branches are split and dying...
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DELPHINIUM DREAMS
Don't you just adore Delphiniums? As always I jumble things together in my garden such that what is supposed to be my Delphinium bed has to compete with Sanders White rose on the trellis behind and...
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JUNE JOYS
Blush Rambler with Sanders White growing through the old apple tree in the borrowed landscape. Noble Anthony has this strange luminescence in every photo that is not seen by the naked eye. Mayor of...
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Celebrating Agapanthus and a few late flowering Clematis
I grow Agapanthus in pots and overwinter in the cold greenhouse. They add colour around the garden mid summer onwards and are one of my favourite flowers yet I rarely photograph them and put on this...
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HANGING BASKETS
Another year with glorious hanging baskets thanks to the diligence of Mike, watering daily and feeding once a week. Surfinia petunias are always very successful. We lost our Laburnum tree last year...
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HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND A HEALTHY NEW YEAR
Just to wish everyone a Happy Christmas and hoping 2020 is kind to you all. This photo was taken in 2009 of a lovely old oak tree on one of my walks. It's ten years since we had any snow worth taking...
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A SPRING TRIP AROUND THE GARDEN
A glimpse of the front garden with hellebores, primrose and tall snowdrops under the front wall. The photos don't really do justice but this is my view when I sit in the front window not bad on a...
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MAY IN THE GARDEN
The President Josephine St Swithun a new climbing rose. Cecile Brunner Cornelia Mrs N. Thompson Choisya with a Rose Chafer beetle. I have seen a number of Rose Chafer beetles in the garden this year...
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MORE MAY DELIGHTS IN THE GARDEN
Today at Joanne's cottage garden. The roses are already making a wonderful show. Tonight I watered and closed the greenhouse for the night about 7.00 hours and heard the sound of the cuckoo in the...
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Welcome to my roses in the vegetable garden. What a glorious display this year. Just a few errors in my video. First I called the white rose Claire Austin it is Francine Austin, I do have a Claire...
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JUNE JOYS AND SAVING BOX
Glorious June in the vegetable rose garden. Delphiniums flowering nicely. All grown from seed and doing well over many years. Up close and personal. Joined by a clematis Vying for space with a rose...
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OVER THE GARDEN WALL
The front garden is being very much admired by the numerous walkers out on their daily walks during lockdown. The Cornus Kousa Chinensis by the gate has caused many questions so Mike added a name...
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OLD PHOTOS OF OLD MERROW STREET
It's always fun finding old photos. This is of the house next door to us Pound Cottage in Old Merrow Street, Merrow. It was used as a laundry for many years and here are the laundry women with a group...
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JULY EXTRAVAGANZA
The front garden is such a delight with the Dahlias joining in with various white phlox, fuschia, Crocosmia and a few Agapanthus in pots to add to the kaleidoscope. Once again blogger has changed and...
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IRIS AT ORANGE COTTAGES
Lovely white Iris ImmortalityThe Blue Iris I have grown for some years but have spread around the front garden and last year ordered three white Iris only Immortality flowered but hopefully the other...
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Front garden flowers
Gertrude Jekyll Rose started flowering before most of my other roses and came out a very cerise pink.A lovely cistus which tends to be lower growing and was in the garden when we moved here 40 years...
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