Welcome to 2024
Welcome 2024 with highlights of 2023 year
Category: Bulbs
Welcome to My Spring Garden (2023)
The season has been very different this year compared to previous years. There has been a significant delay in trees and shrubs leafing out. However, the resilient spring bulbs are currently putting on a great show. First to bloom are the snowdrops followed by a carpet of scillas. The rockery plants are coming along nicely […]
Spring Garden 2022
Spring Garden 2022. It certainly has been a while since I have done a blog post. The garden has only come alive within the past few weeks. The rockery garden always seems to show new life first beginning with the scillas that have multiplied forming a carpet of color. The odd miniature daffodil as well […]
2020 – Year in Review
Where do I begin. I think most of us can say that we will be happy to see the end of 2020. It has been quite the year! I was very fortunate to immerse myself in gardening. I don’t think the garden has ever been so looked after. Many an hour I have spent there. […]
Uncertain Times
Never would I have thought that two to three months ago we would be in the situation we are in today. These are most certainly uncertain times. As I walk through the park this morning there is an eerie silence. With no commercial planes flying it is just the sound of gaggling geese or birds […]
Approaching Spring
I can’t believe it is already the beginning of March and Spring is fast approaching. Through most of January the garden was blanketed in snow so there was very little to report. In February, my husband and I managed to escape to the Cook Islands again and welcomed the warm weather despite a number of […]
Happy May 1st
Happy May 1st. I know this may sound cliché but I really don’t know where April went. Towards the beginning of the month everything seemed to be on hold in the garden. We went down to the coast for Easter and when we returned my husband and I were amazed how the garden had just […]
Spring Notes
I have been most neglectful of late with posting on my blog. I have to say during the first weeks of March I was getting most depressed. The garden still coated with a thick layer of snow and temperatures still very low. Needless to say within the last week I have had a total boost […]
From Snowfalls to Snowmelt
Our winter so far has been very different from the previous two years with a mix of snowfalls and snowmelt. Spring though still seems a long way off. These variances in temperatures have allowed me sometimes to have a glimpse of a few blooms and bulb shoots in the garden. The hellebores in particular and […]
Welcome to the New Year
It is often difficult at this time of the year to find suitable garden content to write about. This year however has been an exception. The last few weeks we have experienced some extremely mild weather allowing me to take photos of flowering plants. My garden beds are usually knee deep in snow but with […]