Tulips

Posted on April 3, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Celsius, Cold, Colour, Daffodils, Gardening, Life, Plants, Snowdrops, Spring, Tulips, UK, Warm, WinterLeave a comment

Not this years ones, they haven’t opened up yet. But they are starting to grow up. I just can’t wait. I’m used to waiting for spring but sometimes it seems to take an awful long time to get here. A couple of weeks ago the temperatures were in the high teens Celsius, last week they dropped to freezing or below, and there was a snow in a few places across the UK. We didn’t get more than a bit of hail and snow here. Meanwhile the daffodils and snowdrops are up. We haven’t had much rain though, so the buds on the trees are not fully open yet…

Hail and snow

Posted on April 2, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Clouds, Gardening, Hail, Planting, Plants, Showers, Snow, Trentham Gardens, WeatherLeave a comment

What do you call a mixture of Snow and Hail? Sn-ail! I think it was ‘sn-ailing’ this afternoon. We went out to Trentham Gardens in Stoke on Trent and bought a few plants, maybe it’s a bit cold to plant them though.

Lesser Celandine?

Posted on March 29, 2022March 29, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Flowers, Garden, Gardening, Lesser celandine, Plants, Wild flowers, Yellow2 Comments

We had a few yellow flowers last year. Now they are mounds! I think it’s lesser celandine. Apparently they are grown from little bulbules? They can get on your shoes and get transferred around the garden. I used to be on a natural history website where you recorded the date when the flowers come out. It’s clear that spring is getting earlier each year even though it is only changing slowly. Anyway I like these plants. Our garden is quite wild and it’s good to add different wild flowers.

Can we buy your garden?

Posted on March 29, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged carpark, Environment, Garden, Gardening, greenery, Life, Loved, Nature, no, Plants7 Comments

We were going out yesterday when a car pulled up outside the house. Is that your garden? The driver asked us. Yes we said. Oh great. Can we buy it? No, I said. It’s not for sale! The man looked disappointed. Why do you want it my hubby asked. We are thinking of buying the old pub across the road to turn into apartments. We would use it as a car park. A car park alongside our house? No way. People coming and going at all times of the day and night. Destroying our wildlife garden. Also we would need a large fence to keep people out who could just walk onto the carpark…? NO! I was polite but said no.

Daffodils

Posted on March 26, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Buds, Daffodils, Flowers, Gardening, Green, Growing, Orange, photosynthesise, Plants, Spring, YellowLeave a comment

Yellow and orange. Large flower heds. In front of the house. Cheerful and bright. They delight me when I come home. Signs of spring are showing everywhere now. The trees are starting to blossom, buds are swelling on the branches in my garden. I’ve seen blossom on the trees along the canal. But it’s been dry and sunny, it’s been exceptionally warm for this time in March. I worry because the temperatures are due to fall next week and frost might nip at the buds. But if it stays dry they might be OK. What we need now is rain to swell the buds and start the growth process. Cells expand when they absorb water, the become turgid and then, they start to photosynthesise. We are at the turn of the year.

Muscari (grape hyacinth)

Posted on March 25, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blue, Gardening, grape hyacinths, Life, outdoor gardening, Plants, Regrowth, SpringLeave a comment

I know it’s almost spring because the grape hyacinths come out in the pots at the front of the house. We are the only house with plants growing on the pavement. When I come home it cheers me up. They really do look like little bunches of grapes, don’t they? The blue colour reminds me of bluebells but they don’t emerge until April or May. X

Kitchen garden display

Posted on February 25, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged gourds, greenhouse, hothouse, Life, Plants, Rode hall, Staffordshire, Visit, walled kitchen garden2 Comments

In one of the hothouses in the walled kitchen garden at Rode Hall. Yes I have gone on about it but it was an interesting visit. Vegetables were displayed as if they were in a competition. Onions balanced on flower pots, old gourds piled up and drying. Bulbs were sprouting. It must be spring soon!

Fruit

Posted on February 22, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Food, Fruit, Growing, Orange, Photo, Plants, Poem, poetry life, Pomegranate, SweetLeave a comment

Sweet treats without sugar

Neatly packaged

Sour until ripe

Peel and see

What’s inside

Flesh and juice

Bite into it

Taste

Factory

Posted on February 17, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, across the road, Art, Drawing, Factory, Fun, Ivy, Life, Plants, Sketching, Tree, ViewLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was factory. This is the view from our window across the road to the factory. They have trees and plants in front of it to screen it a bit. The tree is covered by ivy at the moment but the buds are already showing ready for spring.

Orchids

Posted on February 13, 2022February 13, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged clear containers, Flowers, Indoor plant, Orchid, orchid compost, Plants, sunny window3 Comments

A new orchid as a present from my hubby. I now have four. Three of them have already flowered and I’m hoping in the summer I might get some more blooms. The old ones have masses of arial roots. I think I need to re-pot them soon. They need clear pots to allow light to get to their roots and the orcid compost has to be quite loose not packed in to allow the roots to breathe. I repotted them a couple of years ago so I think it will be OK to do it again. I need to check the details but I know they are happy in this window.

Mallaband-Brown

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