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Northumberlandia

By on June 17, 2011 in environment

Great transition from rubbish dump to great object of beauty: http://www.hjbanks.com/northumberlandia/1a_1.htm

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Spring has sprung!

By on April 21, 2011 in flowers

We’re having glorious weather in London this month, so into the garden we go for the start of this year’s planting: seedboxes all planted up and safe in the greenhouse in case the temperature drops at night; a luminous Helleborus; a couldn’t-resist-it Rose and Ivory Aquilegia (sorry for the poor quality of the photo): and [...]

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We survived the winter!

By on March 25, 2011 in flowers, garden

Definitely a spring day in London today – what a lovely feeling to hang washing outside! I’m WFH (working from home) which as we all know can be code for SKIVING (well only a little bit you have to take a break don’t you?) which means I’m outside in my jams (another side effect of [...]

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My tree fern in the snow …

By on December 7, 2010 in garden

We were caught unawares overnight last week by quite a heavy snowfall, so now we’ll have to see whether the tree ferm will be okay – not having had time to wrap it in its winter fleece. We’re told they can handle fairly cold weather, so let’s see. I took the first photo quite early [...]

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My tree fern and other plants

By on August 31, 2010 in garden

So the tree fern has given us a show of exuberant happiness this season, along with the chocolate cosmos which nestles … (okay, will leave out the silly pun) – but seriously they even smell of chocolate, and a moment of chocolate sniff does *not* stay a lifetime on the hips. Along the fence the [...]

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