Recent Posts Tagged With 'spring'

• perennial problems

  Posted on Friday May 29th, 2009 at 13:03 in compost, spring, july, weeds, perennial

  today i'm going to talk about a perennial flower called crocosmia, it has many common names and claims sub-tropical origins.its quite funny to read some of the recommendations online for the care of this plant, from lifting and separating in spring t...

• japanese cherry blossom

  Posted on Sunday May 10th, 2009 at 07:52 in flowers, tree, spring, blossom, March, sleepers

  march, brought the arrival of a pure white japanese blossom tree (possibly prunus avium plena), with the ability to grow to around 12m (40 feet) it would not be positioned in the gardens you have been following.instead it was to be positioned in one ...

• beautiful weeds

  Posted on Wednesday May 6th, 2009 at 04:54 in flowers, equipment, vegetables, grass, tree, spring, March, weeds

  it's the end of march 2005 and the garden has been cleaned up and many many bags of weeds and debris from the winter have been dispatched in giant translucent bin bags to the recycle centre.one of my favourite plants/weeds is forgetmenot, there are m...

• a new spring

  Posted on Monday May 4th, 2009 at 06:46 in vegetables, spring, March, warm, weeds, blackberries

  there was a fair bit of travelling until early the next year. this bring us up to early march 2005 and it looks like it may be a good spring.as you see the sun is still low in the sky at this time of year and the days are short, so plenty of long s...

• the perfect lawn

  Posted on Wednesday April 29th, 2009 at 18:31 in fruit, grass, tree, spring, gooseberries

  its may the 6th 2004 and the lawn has been completely transformed to a lush green carpet. the marks are made by walking on the glass and it gives it the look of crushed velvet, to be honest, if you walk bare foot in grass so new, soft, fresh, clean ...

• blue bells

  Posted on Monday April 27th, 2009 at 12:22 in flowers, vegetables, fruit, grass, tree, spring, shrub

  it was the middle of may 2004 and the sun and heat had began to return, little did we know it was going to be the hottest year on record (well until next year that was).i just thought i'dd throw in this picture of blue bells (hyacinthoides non-script...

• cutting and hacking

  Posted on Saturday April 25th, 2009 at 04:19 in equipment, fruit, tree, spring, shrub

  after the snow had retreated and the first days of may arrived, the work inside the house slowed and the garden took preference.as you can see a fair bit of hacking away at the trees, bushes and shrubs had begun. at this point i must say the best th...