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“The color of springtime is in the flowers; the color of winter is in the imagination.”
– Terri Guillemets
Forage in December for:
Alexanders, Chickweed, Garlic Mustard, Sloes, Dandelion Leaves, Rosehips, Hawthorn berries, Cleavers, Rowan Berries, Hairy Bittercress, Honesty
Category Archives: Out and about
Nothing but Daylilies!
Last Thursday a colleague told me about a local specialist nursery that holds a National Collection of daylilies (Hemerocallis). It is called Strictly Daylilies and is based in Histon, just north of Cambridge. How did I not know about them!!? … Continue reading
Posted in Out and about
Tagged Daylilies, Gardening, Gardens, Hemerocallis, National Collection, Photography, specialist nurseries, Strictly Daylilies
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Wordless Wednesday – The Exotic Garden at RHS Wisley
Posted in Out and about, Wordless
Tagged Cannas, Exotic gardens, Gardens, iPhone photography, musa basjoo, palm trees, RHS Wisley, tropical planting
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Wordless Wednesday – Tower of Jewels
Posted in Out and about, Wordless
Tagged Echium wildpretii, Photography, Red Bugloss, Tajinaste Rojo, Tenerife, Tower of Jewels
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Wordless Wednesday – Fluff and stuff
As I walked round the pond I spotted a couple of birds busily helping to strip the downy seeds (apologies for picture quality – it was the best my phone could do). I looked them up later and I think … Continue reading
Posted in Out and about, Wordless
Tagged birds, Bulrush, Emberiza schoeniclus, Ponds, Reed Buntings, Trumpington Meadows Nature Reserve, Typha latifolia, Walks, Wildlife
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Wordless Wednesday – Beds of Norfolk Reed
Posted in Out and about, Wordless
Tagged coastal environment, Norfolk, Norfolk reed, Photography, Phragmites australis
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A walk round RSPB Fowlmere Nature Reserve, Cambridgeshire
Posted in Out and about, Wordless
Tagged birds, chalk streams, natural springs, nature, RSPB Fowlmere Nature reserve, RSPB reserve, Walks, watercress, Wildlife
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A frosty morning walk at RSPB Fen Drayton Lakes
RSPB* Fen Drayton Lakes * The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds is a wildlife conservation charity. Initially, the Society (without the Royal) was an all-women movement created in 1889 by Emily Williamson to fight a fashion for feathers … Continue reading
Posted in Out and about, Walks, Wordless
Tagged birds, Frost, iPhone photography, RSPB, RSPB Fen Drayton Lakes, Walks, wetland
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A Week of Flowers – #Day4
I’ve not posted for a bit (busy and distracted, sorry), but Cathy’s lovely idea for celebrating a week of flowers, to cheer and inspire us at this time of year, was too welcome an opportunity to miss without applauding it … Continue reading
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