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Gary's Garden: August 2014
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Musings from my Potting shed. Thursday, 21 August 2014. View of alpine bed. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). If you enjoy my photographs please visit my other blogs at:. This is where I put my favourite images. You can also visit my new blog. Which is about my Art and Silver work. View my complete profile. Things in Unusual Places #19: Cricket. Down on the Allotment. The Patient Gardener's Weblog. Festival of Quilts 2016. Alternative providers and alternative medicine. Tales from Awkward Hill. A fresh new blog.
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Gary's Garden: July 2015
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Musings from my Potting shed. Tuesday, 28 July 2015. Well the early flowers are over, now come the in your face summer colour, Dahlias. Dahlias are coming back into fashion, for a while they they were regarded as very old fashioned but common sense has won through and they are back. Well to be honest they have never been out in our garden, I love them. I have no idea of the varieties ( I am sure I did at some time! But that doesn't matter the just look glorious. Tuesday, 21 July 2015. Bees are not the on...
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Gary's Garden: Seedheads
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Musings from my Potting shed. Tuesday, 14 July 2015. The Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf said that "A plant is only worth growing if it looks good when it is dead" and I agree with him. Many of the plants that I grow have this characteristic as their seedheads are as beautiful as, or in some cases more than the flowers that formed them. The final benefit is you don't need to spend hours deadheading, just one big clear up in the spring. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). You can also visit my new blog.
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Gary's Garden: Up front gardening
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Musings from my Potting shed. Monday, 6 July 2015. Over the time I have been writing this blog I have barely ever mentioned the front garden. There are several reasons for this, it's small, it's North facing, it has an ugly wall and someone at some point filled it up with pebbles. This weekend I decided to have a go at improving things. I do have the rose I bought at Hampton court about 5 years ago, a jasmine and a honeysuckle working their way up the house but I need to improve things at ground level.
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Gary's Garden: September 2010
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Musings from my Potting shed. Friday, 17 September 2010. If only dogs could climb trees! Thursday, 16 September 2010. I am always amazed at how fast things change in the fields around here. A couple of weeks ago this field was covered in wheat, now it is all prepared ready for next year. The haws are doing really well too, which is good news for the birds, the Fieldfare and Redwings will be arriving in the next few weeks and will take full advantage of them. Thursday, 2 September 2010. This morning was t...
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Gary's Garden: March 2011
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Musings from my Potting shed. Thursday, 17 March 2011. Some colour at last. After what has seemed a long cold winter the garden is at last coming to life. The Hellebores that I transplanted last year to a position at the base of our walnut are looking magnificent, it is worth living all year with their untidy foliage for the display of colour in the spring. Of course the champion of spring colour must be the daffs and narcisi, I have planted these all around the garden and left them to naturalise. My sec...
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Gary's Garden: Garden Moths
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Musings from my Potting shed. Monday, 3 August 2015. I was at the Botanical gardens in Cambridge the other day when I saw these caterpillars crawling across this leaf. When you see caterpillars you immediately think of Butterflies, but in Britain the majority are in fact moths. I recognised them as the caterpillars of the 5 Spot Burnet moth Zygaena trifolii. Many garden plants are moth pollinated, some such as honeysuckle are specialised for moths producing their nectar at night. View my complete profile.
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Gary's Garden: February 2011
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Musings from my Potting shed. Monday, 28 February 2011. We had a fantastic time downunder as you will see from the blog. Anyway so what has been happening in the garden? Well after what was a very tough few months the first signs of spring are in the air but the winter has taken it's toll. As you can see the lawn has really suffered, a combination of snow, frost and two very large dogs has wrecked, what wasn't actually much of a lawn to start with! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). If you enjoy my photographs ...
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Gary's Garden: Bee friendly
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Musings from my Potting shed. Tuesday, 21 July 2015. One of the most important groups are the Bumblebees which actually pollinate far more species of plants than the honeybee. Different species specialise in certain types of plants, the Bee in the photograph above has a long tongue in order to reach to the nectaries at the base of the long corolla of this Foxglove. The Garden Bumblebee below specalises in open flowers like the thistle. Garden or Ruderal Bumblebee (I think? You can also visit my new blog.
