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23 Nov 2009More reflections on water in the gardenCloudy 2°C / 36°F
6.44am Whenever I go to Alnwick Gardens I realize again how much I love water in a garden. It seems all of my favourite gardens have water. In the Saskatoon garden we had first a fountain cunningly made from a garbage bin with a water pump in it, its lid was inverted, covered with screen mesh and...
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22 Nov 2009Stocked up on potting soil and manure 18.11pm Notice up in Dogwood that they were going to open to day, everything on sale. This is the first time they have been open for more than a year. Knowing that they had some manure from peering in the back fence, I was down there as soon as they opened. Bought 6 bags manure, 6 bags planter soi...Rainy 2°C / 36°F
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22 Nov 2009Water in the garden 2. Porch garden , 3. Bay Box garden , and 4. House gardenRainy 1°C / 34°F
8.00am The cloud is right down, and it is precipitating, snow I think, probably a mix of rain and snow, it’s not settling – yet.
I have always wanted what is so unhappily called a ‘water feature’ in the garden but have never worked out where it could go and if it needed po...
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21 Nov 2009The Rose Garden cont 1Cloudy 3°C / 37°F
I imagine sitting in this arbour on a fine, warm, early Summer day when the roses, clematis, honeysuckle and summer jasmin are coming into bloom, the air perfumed with roses and abuzz with insects and bird song. I do not think of myself as a rose addict but I admit that David Austin roses do some...
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21 Nov 2009The Rose Garden in November 1Cloudy 4°C / 39°F
When my brother and sister-in-law went to church on Sunday morning, I went to worship too – in the Alnwick Gardens. This is the most amazing garden. The last time, the first time, I visited it was in February two years ago so I was hoping that on this visit there might be some summer left-o...
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21 Nov 2009New-to-me in my bro's gardenCloudy 4°C / 39°F
Photos: This Cerinthe major purpurascens is a plant I have often seen illustrated and thought I would like to grow but this was the first time that I had seen it. It is the mix of colours that is so attractive, fleshy blue-green foliage and rich purple blue tubular flowers; part of the Boraginace...
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21 Nov 2009More from my brother's garden 1 1Cloudy 3°C / 37°F
7.00am
Flowers too, I counted about 15 in bloom, nothing like their summer glory but I was not complaining.
Photos: This small-flowered rose is right outside the kitchen door at the top of the cordon tree bed, I think it is probably a climbing or rambling rose. At the other end of that bed is th...
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20 Nov 2009My brother's garden 2 3Rainy 5°C / 41°F
7.28pm
It was such a pleasure to see brilliant green grass and growing plants when I got to the UK. I last saw my brother’s garden in February 2007, not long after he had moved into the house, and at that time the only things planted were the cordoned apple trees along the wall. These trees...
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19 Nov 2009Home again. 2 1 Winter garden , Christmas Cactus , Moth Orchid , and Corkscrew HazelRainy 3°C / 37°F
6.58pm Raining and everything looks sodden; the snow is down to less than a hundred metres above the valley bottom.
In the garden, there are still some fresh Autumn crocuses, including in the Bay Garden towards the east end, and lots of bashed down, limp bodies. The pink chrysanthemum is floweri...
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02 Nov 2009I think I've got everything ready for winter... 1 1Rainy 2°C / 36°F
10.11pm In between all the things that have to be done if one is going away, I did the last of the garden jobs – wrapped the potted juniper’s pot with several layers of bubble wrap and hessian on top to make it look more attractive; brushed most of the earth off the planters and took ...
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