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Member since: Oct 07 | Last seen: May 13 | Years gardening: 25 | Organic gardener
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09 May 2013
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Snail damage and a new Gerbera
Partly Cloudy 13°C / 55°FI was not happy to discover that snails had caused serious damage to one of my hippeastrums this week. In fact, they’d chewed their way almost completely through a flower stem with a fat healthy bud on top. Not only that, but they were still at the scene of the crime, sat at the base of the...
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04 May 2013
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Sunny 10°C / 50°FThat’s how long it’s taken to get electricity to my greenhouse and I think I’ve been superhumanly patient. When the greenhouse was built in the summer of 1989, I bought several electrical items for it (propagating bench, heater, air circulation fan) but they’ve been unused...
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20 Apr 2013
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Mostly Cloudy 10°C / 50°FToday was ALL about gardening. I try to save Sundays for gardening if I can especially if the weather is suitable. Actually, I spent most of this morning in the greenhouse while the rain was rattling on the roof panes. In fact, I got quite cold and fetched a fleece from the house to put on while ...
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19 Apr 2013
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Sunny 11°C / 52°FNot one but TWO days of sunshine to end the week – what a change after all the dull grey gloomy cold wet weather we’ve had this winter. I walked round the garden this morning taking photographs of some of the flowers in bloom and they made a colourful show. I finally managed to get my...
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10 Mar 2013
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Another cold snap for the UK :-(
Scattered Clouds -2°C / 28°FWe’ve even had some very light snow here on Scilly and the poor Channel Islands (which are much nearer to the French coast) have been hit by blizzards and gale force winds bringing drifting snow, closing airports and schools. It’s been a rum old winter, you might say…. So I̵...
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04 Feb 2013
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Storms 8°C / 46°FThe Met Office reckons the winds on Scilly have been gusting over 50 mph for five hours today but it’s clear that’s not the whole picture. At one point, around 3pm this afternoon, the wind demolished a 3ft square wooden framed sign for our Gallery, made out of 2 × 2 timber and tr...
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31 Jan 2013
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'Limona' - my one year wonder :-(
Hippeastrum 'Limona' and Plants in the House gardenWell, this hippeastrum truly had a Death Wish. It flowered nicely one year (although I was a bit undecided about whether I liked the colour of the blooms or not) and then proceeded to enter a long slow spiral of decline. I kept unpotting it, removing the brown parts, drying it out, dusting it wit...Scattered Clouds 8°C / 46°F -
29 Jan 2013
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Sunny 10°C / 50°F… and I’ve only just put in the 15th January Bloom Day photo of my Sweet Violet so I’m hoping I get my January 2013 Bloom Day badge at the last minute. I’ve been very lax about Folia over the past year but I’m determined to do better this year. For a start, I went Pr...
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08 Dec 2012
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I did a circuit of our garden this morning, just checking on the plants and tidying up anything that needed tidying. Chris, who comes one afternoon a week, had managed to corral most of the apple tree leaves into a large white woven bulk sand bag so, hopefully, they will rot down over winter read...Mostly Cloudy 10°C / 50°F -
07 Dec 2012
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I have an unusually tidy greenhouse ...
… for this time of year. This is because we went away for three weeks at the end of October and I had someone different to look after my plants and greenhouses this autumn. In the summer, when he went away with his wife, I fed their cat and watered his garden. It’s a beautiful garden ...Scattered Clouds 4°C / 39°F
