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09 Oct 2009First Frost 2 2 Container gardenClear -1°C / 30°F
8.45pm Bright, sunny, windy and distinctly chilly, barely 3C at 10.30 am – need to dig out mitts and touque. The little dahlias and the big white all touched by frost, the weather station said it got down to -1.6C.
Got home at 5.00 and by 6.30, I had dug up all the begonias, including the ...
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08 Oct 2009Ouch, what a forecast...Cloudy 3°C / 37°F
10.35 pm Made the mistake of checking the weather forecast, for tomorrow snow level moving down from 1300m to valley bottom – we are about 900m. Friday sunny high +7C low -6C, cloudy and roughly the same temperatures for several days after. The norms for the time of year are 12C/ 4C –...
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07 Oct 2009No frost so far 4 1 Autumn Crocus AlbaCloudy 6°C / 43°F
9.23 am. No frost so far although Monday night the temperature went just below 0C at the airport, but that is on the river so probably cold air was pooling there. It’s likely that some places in town have had frost, there are a lot of micro-climates here, depending on height of land and lo...
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04 Oct 2009Addings and movings 1 2. Porch gardenSunny 16°C / 61°F
Moved the Bugbane from Shade, which necessitated moving Minnie Pearl eastwards. Added L. Tom Pouce from Road, a new clematis Black Prince, and a pink hardy geranium from Path. All the plants got amended soil and fish fertiliser, the bed as a whole which remains very light got some bark from the f...
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04 Oct 2009Moved to PorchSunny 16°C / 61°F
Having seen Dan Hinkley say that he grows his Bugbanes in full sun, I decided to move mine to Porch where it will definately get more sun. Didn’t seem to be deep rooted, clumps of dry soil around roots. Amended the soil in Porch which is quite light and was dry, with wet peatmoss and fish m...
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04 Oct 2009Bulbs, Plants and Porch 1 5. East garden , 7. Centre garden , 2. Porch garden , 3. Bay Box garden , and 1. Path bed gardenSunny 12°C / 54°F
12.11pm. Chilly to start off, and windy, even at 10.30 shirt, sweater, hoody and socks needed, but eventually the sun rose above the trees and I am now down to the shirt.
I have planted:
Narcissus Ice Follies to back of East between Daisies and Clematis – there should be more daffs there a...
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03 Oct 2009Where to put those bulbs and plants? 38.29pm Couldn’t get to sleep last night after a very crowded, noisy Opening of the Art in the Park exhibition. A huge crowd turned out for what was an excellent exhibition by a dozen artists, six of which went to Pacific Rim National Park and the rest to the Mt. Fidelity Snow Research stati...Cloudy 8°C / 46°F
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30 Sep 2009Dan Hinkley on Hydrangea paniculata PG Hydrangea and 6. East 2 gardenPartly Sunny 8°C / 46°F
p.163-4 “…primarily in Japan that I have encountered in the wild one of the hardiest and most handsome of the Hydrangea species grown in North America and Europe… large geographical range from Sakhalin and northeastern China to Taiwan through the entire Japanese ArchipelagoR...
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30 Sep 2009Random thoughts 6. East 2 garden , muscari neglectum , PG Hydrangea , 3. Bay window bed garden , and Moth OrchidCloudy 5°C / 41°F
7.58 am
Cloud came in last night and it rained although not enough to register in the rain gauge, anyway we were saved from a frost. For the rest of the day, cloud streamed in through Eagle Pass, with some heavy showers, some sun and blustery wind.
Painted Lady butterflies feeding on the Michaelm...
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29 Sep 2009More bulb planting 3Clear 7°C / 45°F
7.24 pm
This morning was not conducive to gardening, cloud, wind, clouds down on the mountains and when they lifted a fresh dusting of snow down to the lowest level so far. In fact, in the valley it was not as chilly as it looked and the sky overhead was clearing slowly. Two parcels at the post o...
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