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14 Jun 2009Hurrah for the Fruit Cage! 1 1Sunny 17°C / 63°F
Hubby spent a lot of time and money this spring building the most stupendous custom-made fruit cage attached to the end gable of my big greenhouse. We’ve got raspberries, gooseberries and strawberries in there and they are all doing pretty well.
The Honeoye strawberries were first into prod...
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12 Jun 2009Hippeastrum Season17°C / 63°F
Well, ‘Princess Murat’ came into bloom this month but she doesn’t look like the images of this hippeastrum that I found online. Those had almost pure white petals with a thin red feathered marking on the two petals on either side of the top petal. Mine has rather sumptuous pinky cream blooms with...
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17 Apr 2009Long absence from MyFolia 1 3It’s been a long time since I visited the site – for the last month I’ve been in a lot of pain from a combined tennis elbow/carpal tunnel injury in my left arm (fortunately NOT my dominant arm because I’m right handed!) So gardening and computing have both been rather tric...Partly Sunny 12°C / 54°F
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02 Feb 2009Snow on Scilly! 2 1Snow 1°C / 34°F
I can’t think of a better title – yes, it’s actually snowing on Scilly AND it’s settled! This is a very rare event indeed. I doubt if I can think of more than ten occasions in the past eighteen years when it’s snowed and settled.
When hubby brought me a mug of tea in...
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29 Jan 2009Doing 'The Swan' 4Yes, here I am stubbornly maintaining an appearance of gliding serenely through life … while paddling frantically for all I’m worth below the waterline! Christmas and New Year were incredibly busy with family visiting, entertaining friends, travelling and rattling the cage of the loca...Sunny 11°C / 52°F
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06 Dec 2008A Hard Day's Work. 4 Greenhouse gardenThe forecast for calm, settled, sunny weather this weekend was just what we needed to tackle my greenhouse. So today we worked from 9am until 5pm when the light faded and we could barely see what we were doing. The weather was kind to us and we worked in sweatshirts without the need for hats. Lun...Sunny 9°C / 48°F
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18 Nov 2008A MOST unpleasant shock! (warning - not for the squeamish ...) 3 Greenhouse gardenI’ve been frantically busy over the past three or four weeks dealing with various family and neighbourhood crises, so my greenhouse has just been ticking over quietly with minimal input from me. There’s nothing really critical needing attention in there, the weather has been mild and ...Cloudy 11°C / 52°F
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02 Nov 2008Half way through clearing out the greenhouse 8 4Overcast 11°C / 52°F
At least I made a start and got through the major part of the job. I was astonished to see how much growth the Gardeners Delight plants had put on this autumn – I was hauling 6ft plus branches out of the undergrowth. So I removed two wheelbarrowloads of tomato and cucumber foliage from the ...
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21 Oct 2008... emerges from my Ark ... 7 5… taking off my sou’ wester, oilskins and wellies and looks around at the bright sunshine and blue skies. Well! That’s a relief after yesterday! I checked the Met Office website and the Isles of Scilly registered the highest 24 hour rainfall total in the entire country yesterday...Overcast 12°C / 54°F
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30 Sep 2008Yes, I'm still here! 3 4Albeit running as fast as I can and still making little headway! I’ve had very little opportunity to take advantage of this glorious summery weather in the garden but we did manage to get away for a fabulous two night break at the luxury Hell Bay Hotel over on Bryher. The food was wonderful...Cloudy 14°C / 57°F
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