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28 Nov 2008Too wet still! 3 1Rainy 8°C / 46°F
How annoying is it when the days that are sunny – you’re busy elsewhere and the days when it rains endlessly are the ones where you are at home staring out at the garden thinking, I could be clearing, pruning, digging, planting that…I know, I know , serves me right for only bein...
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23 Nov 2008In the snowglobe garden... 4All suddenly it flurries round Whipped in eddies from a ground Now frozen hard with the leaves still lying- I forgot to wrap the fig! As snowflakes dress bare bough and twig The snow dances in front of my eyes Falling from a lumpen sky Early forsythia coldly clings Drops of yellow acid against th...Snow 2°C / 36°F
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16 Nov 2008Not so squirrel-proof bird feeder! 1 3 Ripplestone gardenOvercast 14°C / 57°F
The picture was taken through a window so the quality is not so good but it did make me laugh!
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04 Nov 2008Wet and cold and misty.. 3 4Overcast 13°C / 55°F
Horrible murky weather seems to be the end of the season. The chrysanths and dahlias are beginning to struggle with the rain.
Lots of birds about, robin, tits, blackbirds, magpies (catch them hanging off the bird feeder – must get a picture if I can!), woodpeckers, wood pigeons and a tiny l...
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23 Oct 2008Cold, cold wind...clocks go back... 1Leaves everywhere and the squirrels have been busy rearranging my nice, neat flowerbed – obviously I had the design all wrong…. don’t forget that this Sunday (26th) British Summer Time ends – that’s the end of the long evenings for this year!Cloudy 14°C / 57°F
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19 Oct 2008Revamp of bed that was shaped a bit like Africa... 1 2 Ripplestone gardenCloudy 15°C / 59°F
One of the first flowerbeds created when we started on this garden is a south-facing sloped bit between a higher area of the garden (always known as the ‘kids old bark pit’)and the patio. This bed was hastily contructed using old bricks unearthed from clearing the kids bark pit area ...
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17 Oct 2008Mowing the lawn and crossword... 2 Ripplestone gardenDespite the glorious sunshine of the last few days the sun doesn’t really make it over the neighbours trees that line the back of our garden to dry out the dew, the result being that at this time of year mowing the grass is more like a watersport! In fact today it was particularly slippery ...Cloudy 14°C / 57°F
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15 Oct 2008Spider safari... 5 1Rainy 17°C / 63°F
Lots of talk on the news in the last couple of days about alien invaders in the garden – went on a spider safari to see what was ‘out there’…
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13 Oct 2008self sown seedlings up like a rash... Love In A Mist 'Self Sown' Sprouting and Ripplestone gardenCloudy 17°C / 63°F
These seedlings are taking off well in hot weather.
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12 Oct 2008Beech tree short back and sides... Frontyard gardenHave spent the gloriously sunny weekend with us all giving the beech trees a good tidy up. Boys very keen as they have just watched ‘Axe Men’ series. Lots more light. The grass might grow again from where the camp was in the summer. Used some of the smaller twigs to make insect house...Overcast 15°C / 59°F
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