Summer photos, warm borders and more ranunculus
Going to work in the dark and coming home in the dark always makes me lean heavily on old summer photos at this point in January.
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A year full of flowers and a few bucket-list moments
Those in-between days after Christmas always make me reflective, and looking back over this year I keep coming back to just how much it held.
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Questioning my sanity over all these bulbs
I do think there comes a point every bulb season when you start to question your own sanity a little, especially when you are several hundred bulbs in and still not finished.
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Growing & Planting
Bulb planning is now competing with Christmas
We have reached that moment in early December when the garden is still demanding attention but Christmas is beginning to elbow its way in beside it.
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I will not properly relax until the bulbs are in
I know myself well enough to admit that I am not going to relax until the bulbs are properly planted. It sits at the back of my mind the whole time, especially when there are stacks of pots waiting and the weather keeps doing its own thing.
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The tulip conundrum has started again
November has arrived in that slightly confusing way it sometimes does, with plenty still flowering and temperatures that do not feel especially November-like at all.
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October dahlias are still finding ways to surprise me
One of the things I love most about dahlias is how they never seem entirely finished with surprising you. Even in late October there are new shapes, slightly different colours and the occasional flower that makes you stop in your tracks.
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Bulbs, workshops and October sowing
October is properly under way now, which means bulbs, sweet peas, ranunculus and the yearly feeling that every surface is about to fill up with trays and pots.
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Rain, bulbs and trying to get the autumn sowing done
This has felt like a very 2024 sort of fortnight: heavy rain, soggy borders and a lot of bulb thoughts.
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September seed sowing has begun
September always flips a switch in my head. As much as the dahlias are still dazzling away, I am already thinking ahead to next year and reaching for seed trays again.
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