Tag Archives: Roses

Seeing Red (or September’s emblazoned flowers)

I’ve not done a flower post to join in with Chloris’ Monthly Top Ten Flowers meme for a while now. My focus has been elsewhere and quite frankly the flower bit of the garden isn’t brilliant this year. However, as … Continue reading

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Six on a Saturday – Cosmocracy!

Well, we’ve had a few dribs and drabs of rain recently and it seems to be cheering the plants up no end. The beans are romping up their canes (and not just the runners!), courgettes are swelling in nice quantities … Continue reading

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Six on Saturday – Tangential to a Summer Solstice

If only we could keep going with these lovely long days. But it is already midsummer and by the time we reach my birthday in August I know that the nights will most definitely be drawing in, even though the … Continue reading

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In a Vase on Monday – Mambo No.5

A little bit of … …  makes you my vase. Well, it is mid November and there aren’t many flowers left in the garden. What’s left is pretty soggy, with all the rain over the weekend and today. I had … Continue reading

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