Monday 31 December 2012

Into the new year

Fat balls attract all sorts, here a female blackcap, also sparrows, tits, robin and many others.

 Winter pansies offering colour
 Winter honeysuckle
 Double hellebores

 Winter box, sarcococca
 Winter jasmin
 early snowdrops
 primulas
 and for leaves, heuchera
 and pulmonaria
Happy New Year, 2013.

Wednesday 26 December 2012

Inside

Amaryllis

 Orchid
 and coleus for leaf colour.

Tuesday 25 December 2012

From the conservatory

A range of leaves and flowers flowering now in the conservatory.
 Fuchsia
 Kananchoe
 Arbutilon
 Mandevilla
 Pelargonium


 Streptocarpus



 Orchid (Phalaenopsis)


Thursday 20 December 2012

Christmas trees

Cheerful indoors, anyway. The Christmas tree, and a former Christmas tree 25 years ago, bought with roots.



Wednesday 12 December 2012

Frost!

This is to mark 12-12-12 - 12th December 2012.
The weather for the past month has been atrocious, and we have had heavy frosts for several days now. What has not been put under protection may not survive - and even the greenhouses are not totally safe.
Here anyway are some frosty scenes from this morning








Friday 30 November 2012

Winter planting

Photographed in November,
A late hibiscus
 nerines
 ahlstromeria
 dahlias
 pineapple lily
 heather and cyclamen
 winter pansies over bulbs


Sunday 18 November 2012

Last gasp

These were taken before the frosts and horrid wet weather
That wonderful corydalis
 the mixed border

 dahlias in the greenhouse

 pots
 the last roses

 hot lips and friend kaffir, front
 and back