Month: November 2012

I’ve had a great time looking through the photos, lots of things I had completely forgotten about! I haven’t any really good garden photos but I like the contrast in this one.

What a beautiful day here, enjoyed a short stint in the garden while the sun was at its best. Slowly but surely I will start the winter tidy up. I also put in some markers on plants that were only planted this year in the new front area. If I didnt do this I might have trouble remembering what was where when they have completly died down, although I have taken photos to help recognise them when hopefully come up again next Spring.

Loved the colour of this plant in the sun today.

This would be my favourite photo from the garden.

Fran says he doesn’t have many flowers left from the garden.

I have a few 🙂

Well, from the greenhouse.

I wouldn’t normally cut flowers but at least we can see them now.

It was a cold one last night.

Plenty of frost and mist here this morning.

It’s the last day in November so I added a few photos to my November album before it closes.

Douentza, November 2012

The number of flowers in the garden is dropping rapidly now.

Dahalis took a bashing from the frosts of late but I will still have a few in bloom for 1st December.

Another great plant that has been flowering since about April and is still going is Cirsium rivulare. There are even buds still forming but I doubt they open with these frosts.

Will only have a few hours in the garden today, so waiting to go.

I hope this is a better one ,

This is my favourite photo to date. No, it’s not from 2012, but the year I joined Garden.ie.

Only just logged in for the first time in awhile so i’m not sure where where all these journals came from but here’s my own favorite (after much deliberation).

I just have to share this photo with you. Taken just when I left work this evening.

This was chosen not for its photographic value but because it was a lovely surprise in my garden this year. I had grown a mix of dierama seeds a few years ago and really only got 2 different flowers until this year when I got this one!

It also won me a year’s free Irish Garden magazines:)

I really do! I see so many of them year after year that I’m quite literally sick of them. And I especially dislike intensely the newer colours like peach, and yellow.

But today I was stopped in my tracks while examing the latest delivery. It was the only one of its kind, so I just HAD to snap it up. What do you think?

Sometimes I wonder does anyone working inside the shop even realize that I am outside, all on my ownsome! The only time I was inside today was when I needed to (if you know what I mean).

Last year, I got a great buzz out of taming the visiting robin, by leaving small titbits of food dotted around the place. And after about 3 weeks of this, I had him eating out of my hand.

I haven’t left any food out at all this year. But today, he came about 3ft away from me. Well chuffed considering I have made no effort to befriend him all over again. And he made my isolation so worth it.

Rachel sent me two babies earlier in the year and one of them has been flowering continuously for months and now I notice that the other is putting up a bud.By the way do you propagate these from a leaf?

My patience paid off, the rest of the bulbs were reduced to £1 when I called in at lunch time today.

The front garden will be a trashy tulip travesty next spring!!
It’ll be all pink and dark purples out front along with loads of Allium christophii coming later and I’ll plant the yellow and red ones in the back garden

Now the only problen is that I have to find the time to plant all of them.

Difficult to decide

We are just in this allotment one year now and looking at the photos even with the wet and coldish summer we still did well.

Toby can enjoy the allotment without worry, no ban on Dogs in this allotment.

Love the white poppy it was the first year I had it.

I just realise I didn’t take so many photos of the garden this year, but looking back it reminded me that even though it is small it did look good in the summer.

It was a day for slogging away and keeping yourself warm in the garden.

Place looks great after the clean up, god help the first leaf that lands in my garden, it won’t even have the pleasure of the compost heap ;-))

The main border will be tackled tomorrow, I did glimpse snowdrops and daffodils coming through the soil, promising signs of another gardening year.

Just looking through my photos and finding it hard to choose! This one I don’t even remember taking but glad I did, I like the contrast of the different colours and textures, lovely to look back on summer pics!

i managed to get a few pics this morning while the frost was still on the plants. it was cold but nice and almost like a winter wonderland. i havent ventured out to do anymore weeding as it has been so cold and i am still smothered maybe at the weekend.

i also got these pics of the sky near 8 this morning. they are showing a bit darker than it was outside.

just made a big pot of veg soup so i am now sitting with my hands around a big mug of it yummmmy

Just finishing off a cuppa prior to the last major leaf clean up begins. I know there will be other clean ups but this will be the last big one.

It is a cold but perfect day for this kind of job. Well wrapped up in T shit and shorts and wooly hat and I’ll be a happy camper.

On another note I have created a job for a winter’s day at some stage. I was so pleased with the arch I made that I am making a second one to match. It will act as a gateway to the far corner from the Border 50 area.

The first arch will be taken down and dismantled and allowed to dry in the shed. This wood was meant to be pressure treated, I’m not happy with the way it is absorbing water so I will coat and soak it in preservative once it is dry. Then they will both be in place for the spring.

Have good one.

Haven’t been able to go through all my 2012 photos yet; so far I like this one of helleborus niger, as it shows the flowers in various stages. Fallen petals from the chaenomeles planted above it provide a red carpet for contrast. Though it looks “christmassy”, the photo was taken in March.