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19 Nov 2009

Home again. 1 Winter garden , Christmas Cactus , Moth Orchid , and Corkscrew Hazel

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...

Rainy 3°C / 37°F

01 Nov 2009

Winter garden 2 2 Winter garden , Calamondin Orange , Bay Tree , Christmas Cactus , and Moth Orchid

8.36pm Watered and fertilized all the indoor plants except the Moth Orchid. The Christmas Cacti are covered with buds. The Calamondin Orange has 14 oranges large enough to have some colour and nearly as many still tiny and green, as well as being covered in flowers which smell delicious. Strepta...

1°C / 34°F

15 Oct 2009

Back in place 1 Winter garden , Streptocarpus , Hibiscus #2 , Rosemary , and Calamondin Orange

Everything is more or less in place in the Winter garden but can I get to the curtains and blinds to draw them? I cut the hibiscus #2 back hard, it was getting a bit leggy but it had lots of leaf sprouts along the stems so I hope it will not take as long as the other to start blooming again. I al...

Rainy 4°C / 39°F

14 Oct 2009

FairTrade and my coffee bush 3 Winter garden , Winter garden , and Coffee bush

7.15am Damp, with light rain showers. We need more rain as we have only had about 2" since our long stretch of dry hot weather. Co-incidentally with thinking about my Coffee bush yesterday, last night I went to see a film advocating FairTrade called ‘Black Gold’ about the coffee...

Rainy 3°C / 37°F

14 Oct 2009

FairTrade and my coffee bush 3 Winter garden , Winter garden , and Coffee bush

7.15am Damp, with light rain showers. We need more rain as we have only had about 2" since our long stretch of dry hot weather. Co-incidentally with thinking about my Coffee bush yesterday, last night I went to see a film advocating FairTrade called ‘Black Gold’ about the coffee...

Rainy 3°C / 37°F

14 Oct 2009

Slowly getting it together 2 Winter garden and Streptocarpella

12.00pm Decided not to replant the Christmas Cactuses now as I only had an 8" pot and need a 10", which no-one in town had. I shall make one whenever I am at the studio next. Streptocarpella replanted from a 6" to a 8" pot, added planter compost from the summer planters. It g...

Rainy 5°C / 41°F

13 Oct 2009

Winter Garden clean up.. 1 Winter garden , Camillia 'April Remembered' , Calamondin Orange , Christmas Cactus , Moth Orchid , and Coff...

5.00pm A very windy day, the sun a lemon blob in the grey murk, the snow on the mountains is still thin but much lower down and snow flurries are forecast for tonight. The outside garden is not appealing at the moment although I have got lots of clearing up to do. Indoors I am creeping at snail&...

Overcast 5°C / 41°F

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