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Category Archives: Plants
Six on Saturday … don’t amount to a (small) hill of beans
06-10-2018 Lovely, it’s raining hard. I’m grateful, I really am, but I can’t help wishing it would do it at night … when I am not walking the dog or wanting to dig up some ground elder. Easier to justify … Continue reading
Posted in autumn, Food, Plants
Tagged #SixOnSaturday, Beans, Echium, Gardening, Hops, nerines, Photography, Six on Saturday, Walnuts
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Wordless Wednesday – Dripping red nectar
Posted in Flowers, Plants, Whimsy
Tagged Campanulaceae, Chemistry, Gardening, Gecko pollinator, Nesocodon mauritianus, Photography, Red Nectar
6 Comments
Wordless Wednesday – A grass worth having
Posted in Plants, Wordless
Tagged autumn, Gardening, Grasses, Pennisetum macrourum, perennial, Photography
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Top 10 plants for September … Reach for the skies
Chloris is once again sharing her top 10 plants of the month (always worth a look as she has such an interesting collection) in a meme that encourages others to look around their plots and do the same. So I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Flowers, Plants
Tagged Favourites, Gardening, Horticulture, Photography, September
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Presents, seeds and cons? The adventure begins …
Yesterday’s post saw the final packet of seeds bought by my son as a birthday present for me pop through the letterbox. Since he knows that I like to try new plants every year, he went online and chose a … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Plants, Whimsy
Tagged cucamelons, Gardening, monkey-faced orchids, Rainbow rose, seeds, trials, unusual fruits
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