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29 Oct 2009Let it snow! 3 Rosa Night Owl , Rosa glauca , Rose Henry Kelsey , Crazy for You rose , Rose 'Starry Night' , Rose 'Emily C...Overcast 1°C / 34°F
9.10pm It felt much colder again today, perhaps it is the humidity that makes it feel colder. Even with a shirt, sweater, hoody and my old rain jacket, I felt cold and actually wore handyman gloves to do a lot of the jobs. Wrapped jute cloth around the azalea and Mandarin honeysuckle.
I used O...
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22 Jun 2009The best view is from my window this year... 3 2 'Alchemyst' rose and Shade gardenRainy 11°C / 52°F
The two oldest stems which I cut out in the spring were trained along the top of the fence so there were roses quite low down. I am not sure in retrospect that cutting those was a good idea but they did very poorly last year and I wanted to encourage a new flush of stems from the base. There is a...
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16 Jun 2009A changing scene 2 2 Foxgloves 'Apricot Beauty' and Shade gardenOvercast 23°C / 73°F
This year the only apricot foxglove is in Road and I am not sure how it got there. In Shade there is one large red foxglove, perhaps a reversion to the generic, and two smaller creamywhite with pale green splodges inside looking like transluscent drips of olive oil. The cream foxgloves are from s...
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05 Jun 2009Early June 1 Shade gardenSunny 20°C / 68°F
For the record, in bloom are Anna’s aquilegia, Aquilegia Woodford ?; Black Hellebore; Forget-me-nots; Ajuta; English Bluebells; Geranium ?; Dwarf Globeflower; Ladies Bedstraw; coming into bloom are Goats Beard; Astrania rubra and Anna’s hostas.
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31 May 2009Blooming 2 2 Anna's big blue Columbine and Shade gardenClear 22°C / 72°F
Lots of marks on the leaves; can’t see a bug, doesn’t seem to be affecting the blooms
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17 May 2009Another two? Primula auricula and Shade gardenThere appears to be another auricula behind the yellow leaved aquilegia but it hasn’t flowered this year. Also I bought a dark red one at Rona, Rock Stars, Auricula Primrose Primula pubescens ‘Exhibition Red’ (Exhibition Rot).20°C / 68°F
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10 May 2009Structure and colour - fritillaria 1 Shade garden7°C / 45°F
I love the way these are structured with ribs holding the bell rigid, and the subtlety of colours.
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