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Spring Sprung

The more formal Front
A crop of sloes Later?
Willow shoots good or bad?
It is still moving from cold to hot and back again, but the garden is giving little gifts all the time. Ruth’s much loved magnolias, wild sloes flowering and the willow arch, made over winter, showing shoots.

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Nature and pottering

We had quite a lot of snow recently, which gave us an excuse for staying inside and watching nature. At one point we had 3 female and one male pheasants in the garden. The snow also gave the chance to spot tracks, including evidence of the supected badger that has been digging up the paths for worms. On a nice day I cut some willow from the bottom of the garden and made an arch on the entrance to one of the paths.
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Getting Outdoors

Growing Log Pile
Logs for next year
Evergreens
Evergreens come into their own
Brash Piles
Brash pile awaiting log sorting to kindling and shredding for the paths.
Asking to be made into cup mats
Each year the garden develops a whole load of log and brash piles, as the trees get pruned. Slowly they then get brought to the top and processed. In the absence of a lot of flowers, the evergreens, skeletal trees and the colours of the logs and brash piles add a nice pictorial element to make you smile.
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This Year

Fuchsias from cuttings
Flowerpot Sunflowers
Meadow Beds

It has been a funny year of course but work is well underway preparing for winter and next year. 100m of hedges cut, trees trimmed, meadow beds cut, scarified and extra perennials and seeds added, more cuttings started. Manure has been hauled and is waiting to rejuvenate beds, pumkins have been collected and stored, late vegetables are being picked and used, we have started using the wood cut and stored last year. There is always more to do but looking at the meadow bed as it is now, reminds me of its earlier glory.

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Video Tour

Made earlier this year, before a lot of flowers came out and in low detail to get it up here, but this helps in envisaging that odd garden shape.
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This one we didn’t grow

Parasol Mushroom
Apart from Ruth’s gardening knees and the Parasol mushroom, there is a lot in this picture. That is next door but one in the background, we planted the tree fairly recently, Ruth is actually sitting on an access path to keep this deliberate wildness controlled and we get a vast range of fungi because of the wild woodland and the cuttings ‘brash’ that we tuck around the place. We could, but didn’t eat the mushroom by the way.
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Cuttings and more cuttings

A summer pot
Once we were given a small fuschia in a pot. Like most other plants in the garden, its clones are now all over the place. Cuttings can be quite technical, but I always recommend that you take a lot of soft bits, medium bits and hard bits, remove most of the lower leaves and stick them in a spare bit of garden whenever you are pruning. I usually works.
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Sulking Sunflowers

Sulking Sunflowers

End of the season and these sunflowers have decided to hide

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Sundown September 2020

A well deserved cup of tea at the end of the day and sit and enjoy the latest version of the close view.