Back again - With SNOW !

Thanks to the new photo uploading system I have decided to return and extend the territory..... so not just garden photos

starting with today's ...

snow now min 6 inches deep   .. Malty and Shrimp braving it but uncertain. Priscila viewing it  .....[Alfie asleep in an armchair]

more from the landing window .. or braving the churchyard

 

while back in the garden.....  a snow shaking session for bamboos and evergreens

One of many Bamboos before and after shaking .. or rather bashing with a broomhandle !

The veggie garden... no parsnips today -  IF I could find them !

CHANGING MY SYSTEM ! Well I did.... but I'm back !

I'm clearly not doing well with this blog... its 10 months since I was last here.....I have taken HUNDREDS of photos... but not found time to upload them laboriously through this system.... so I have started a gallery of garden photos on photobucket JAYTEES 2009 GARDEN PHOTOS Please Visit and Enjoy!

Primula Capitata

One of my favourite flowers of early summer is this primula....It looks wonderful by water and flowers when other waterside blooms are going over or gone. A Google image search showed there are several different varieties of P. capitata..... though the photos all look similar to me ! I dont know what mine are.. they came from different sources. They will eventually open to globular heads. Watch this space !

Be Back Soon !

I cannot believe I have been absent this long ! Too busy working on the garden for the Open Weekend (which raised £161.47p ) to sort process photos for here : but I have lots to come, so watch this space.............. here is a taster Bearded Iris ... possibly Butter and Sugar ? Finished blooming just yesterday

...and wider views....

Long View

The view from the balcony yesterday ........ or rather Wednesday before it rained! You can see parts of all 4 terraces... just !

New Day New Header !

The new header is one of several pics taken in the past few days.... ... so busy out there, no time to upload.... but any time now !! First a long Town Council meeting to attend. Then, if it continues to rain...( well we are coming up to a bank holiday weekend !) computer time and more long views to show you. And for when the header changes... as it will... here is the pic minus irritating title !

Leaves and more leaves

I just love this time of year when everything is full of new promise.. another fern unfurling and the fresh new leaves of one of the more unusual non-yellow flowering Mahonias Believe it or not this is the leaf of a species of willow.. Salix magnificum if I remember correctly The leaves of Brunnera 'Jack Frost' the flowers are small insignificant like forget-me -nots .... also blue I took this at the weekend.. I swear this leaf is 4 inches bigger today. This likes moisture... but not wet...... looks very sad when it dries out

Some Flowers

......from garden plans to blooms. A damp weekend in the garden... but still plenty photo opportunities .......first the last few blossoms on a cammassia...which, see below it, just 10 days ago were in full bloom .. though the trees, please note , were almost leafless ! Then an evergreen geranium/cranesbill .... whose name I remembered a moment or two ago.... it will return.... and the clump ... this has a grey slightly furry leaf..... and is next to a srping flowering one which competely dies down in summer and so lets sun light through to the bearded Iris rhizomes next a thalictrum tall and airy... then something that came for free in anther plant pot .. name eludes me right now...... Then two of the three honeysuckles in bloom right now and smelling wonderful and the highly scented bright yellow Hemerocallis lilio-asphodelus .. this one grown from self collected seed.. the parent plant is sulking as it got too big for its slot and I moved it.. last year smothered in bloom .. this year.. well, sulking with two flower shoots !! Final shot of this group Paradiseum liliastrum..... a new plant to me.....its been growing on in the greenhouse overwinter ans this is the first bloom ... in the centre is a lacewing gobbling up pink greenfly.. .. more later