Our hellebores are just poking their heads up into the cold and wet January. I did a search for hellebore flowers on Google images and got a glorious display - all colours and shapes photographed by garden-lovers everywhere.
Take a look >>
They sow themselves and cross pollinate so I'm looking forward to seeing what we get this year. Here's some of ours from previous years:
We have a large garden in semi-rural Leicestershire. This blog is about what we do and what's happening out there because of - or in spite of - our rather amateur gardening efforts. We grow vegetables, we have an orchard with apples, plums and pears, as well as an extensive ornamental garden. Surrounded by fields we enjoy many species of birds, frogs & toads and occasional foxes and other four-legged visitors. Enjoy!
Thursday 30 January 2014
Tuesday 21 January 2014
Winter flowers
After a couple of weeks of rain and grey, but mild, days we've had two frosty nights (-2 C) and glorious sunny mornings.
The mild weather has brought forward the spring bulbs which are now pushing through and the robins and blackbirds are singing like they think its spring already.
There are flowers in the garden, mostly winter bloomers like mahonia, winter jasmine and heather and the rhubarb is sprouting nicely.
The mild weather has brought forward the spring bulbs which are now pushing through and the robins and blackbirds are singing like they think its spring already.
There are flowers in the garden, mostly winter bloomers like mahonia, winter jasmine and heather and the rhubarb is sprouting nicely.
Winter jasmine |
Mahonia flowers |
Primroses |
Heather |
Labels:
birds,
spring,
spring bulbs,
weather
Location:
Leicestershire, UK
Monday 6 January 2014
Garden WiKi
Found this site while searching for advice on how to look after an El Cope plant given to Mum for Christmas.
http://www.wikihow.com/Category:Gardening
Lots of ideas and fun articles on things other than gardening. Like all wikis you need to be wary because not everyone who contributes is an expert, but there's opportunity for people with more knowledge to comment and make further suggestions.
Here's our El Cope plant, not surprisingly it's in the same family as a pineapple - bromeliads.
http://www.wikihow.com/Category:Gardening
Lots of ideas and fun articles on things other than gardening. Like all wikis you need to be wary because not everyone who contributes is an expert, but there's opportunity for people with more knowledge to comment and make further suggestions.
Here's our El Cope plant, not surprisingly it's in the same family as a pineapple - bromeliads.
Saturday 4 January 2014
New Year
The New Year has continued with the wet, windy and rather warm theme although interspersed with some fine sunny moments.
Not a lot happening in the garden just small shoots from the rhubarb, bunches of yellow flowers on the mahonia and little yellow stars of winter jasmine. Surprisingly - few spring bulbs are shooting. Usually by now there are little green shoots and maybe the odd snowdrop showing some white. I wonder if this is warning of a long, cold winter to come.
Not a lot happening in the garden just small shoots from the rhubarb, bunches of yellow flowers on the mahonia and little yellow stars of winter jasmine. Surprisingly - few spring bulbs are shooting. Usually by now there are little green shoots and maybe the odd snowdrop showing some white. I wonder if this is warning of a long, cold winter to come.
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