We have the first blossom on our flowering cherry - 10 days later than last year
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This is the first time we have had Blackthorn blossom in our mixed hedge since we planted it.
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We have the first blossom on our flowering cherry.
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Planted seven rows of nine plants with lots of manure.
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Taken with a mobile phone so a bit blurry: it has its own idea about where the focus should be set.
Red Admiral – It’s hard to snap them landed, they dart about so much
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Finally got around to planting 4 rows of Charlotte early potatoes under fleece.
Also planted 100 Sturon onion sets in five rows
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Fred on Carn Gulva Fred on Carn Gulva Thanks to the work of Gerald Babcock and his grazing cattle we were able to find a way through the bracken and gorse to the rocks at the top.
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Before and after The sitting room, with the stove in, but before being re-plastered and the view now, with the shutters closed against the evening sun. Same window.
Old plaster stripped off Shutters with sun coming through
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Pendeen Carn Quarry Rockery in the garden of a fine country house? No, the quarry at the back of Pendeen Carn in late summer sunshine. Click on picture for full size view.
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Autumn 2013
It’s a year now since we planted the windbreak hedge on the south side of the part of the big garden nearest the house.
Garden with hedge
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It is mostly Olearia virgata laxifolia with some Rosa rugosa and the old bay tree and olive we brought from Ipswich. The olearia has been a real success. They have grown from about 600mm when we planted them to over two metres. I cut them back to about 1.8 m a and thinned them out to lighten them a few weeks ago. I fed them well in the summer and they got a bit top heavy for our rather light soil.
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