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04 Nov 2007Creeper and grass cutting! Frontyard garden
Always jobs to do and, as the virginia creeper shed it leaves very quickly this year, the old stems need cutting right back. I love the strange little sucker roots and curly tendrils, like some odd alien plant form.
The grass is still growing although not as quickly as the back garden as there i...
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04 Nov 2007Busy weekend... Ripplestone garden
Well, after much indecision we finally pollarded the big twisted willow tree. Such a lovely tree, grown from cuttings, but so fast growing. It was beginning to block all the light, not just in our garden but also the neighbours. It will be interesting to see next year how it does (or if it’...
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29 Oct 2007Sown buddleia 'orange ball tree' Sown and Ripplestone garden
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28 Oct 2007Autumn colours Ripplestone garden
Need to get out and take photos of the beech trees with the sun on them – gorgeous! Keep noticing things I need to do… need to go and do them! Winter jasmine beginning to flower.
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26 Oct 2007Sown Daffodil Sown and Ripplestone garden
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26 Oct 2007Planting up bulbs... Ripplestone garden
Finally had an hour in the garden today – gorgeous morning sun after a misty damp day yesterday. Planting up two types of tulips – white/green super parrot and black parrot. Dug gladioli out for storage and found lots of baby corms on them – will try and grow them on next year. ...
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14 Oct 2007Autumn clear down Ripplestone garden
Over the weekend –
Clearing down hops
Cutting back lavender and rosemary
Thinning out willow
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11 Oct 2007Spiders webs everywhere! 2 Ripplestone garden
It’s that time of year when heavy dew and misty mornings find all the webs in the hedges. Mushrooms emerging from the very wet grass and the leaves have all fallen from the virgnia creeper.
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08 Oct 2007Too wet to plant out bulbs! Ripplestone garden
In middle of trying to get bulbs out into ground but it’s far too wet! (mix of white and black parrot tulips and summer snowflakes.)
Need to continue autumn clear down. Still to do :
Buddleja, golden hop, finish off pruning lavenders and rosemary bushes.
Plant up new clematis.
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