The garden is looking a lot fresher since now we have had a couple of weeks of more changeable weather, with cooler temperatures and lots of rain. The ferns either side of the bench were so desiccated by the heat that I cut them back hard sometime in July and now here we are with…
Category: End of month view
End of Month View – July 2018
2018 2009 I write this end of month post with a sense of relief as July seems to have been a very long and dry month. We finally had rain on Friday after something like 6-8 weeks with only a small downpour one day. The rain started on Friday and has been off and on…
End of Month View June 2018
What a change a month brings. Last month I was bemoaning my inability to get sunny photos of the garden; this month it has been a challenge to take photos without the bright sun bleeding out the light. We have had no rain for two weeks now, possibly longer. There are some plants which are…
End of Month View: May 2018
A somewhat bedraggled garden for this month’s End of Month View post. I stupidly thought at the weekend, when it was sunny, I’ll take the photos nearer the end of the month as the poppies may have opened. Foolish me! So these photos were taken this morning in drizzle with mist hanging over the hills…
End of Month View – April 2018
I’m choosing to resist the temptation to bemoan the weather over the last month and instead celebrate the abundance in my borders. The tipsy pots are a clear indicator of the absence of the gardener for most of this past month. Life has been busy with little time to garden but I had a wonderful…
End of Month View: March 2018
My apologies for the delay in this post which should have been published yesterday. I have been somewhat distracted by a lack of heating, hot water and reduced cooking appliances since Thursday. I won’t bore you with the details suffice to say it’s not due to am oversight on bill payment. The situation should be…
End of Month View – February 2018
I was going to say I shall be glad to see the back of February and hopefully the cold weather but it appears that it will be staying with us a little longer and I have the prospect of snow on my birthday. As you would expect the garden hasn’t changed significantly over the last…
End of Month View: January – Nine Years On
Long term readers will know that I have been hosting a meme at the end of each month, unsurprisingly called the End of Month View (or EOMV), for some time. I was surprised to discover that, apart for some months last year when I took a break from blogging and Steve hosted the meme, I…
End of Year View – 2017
As 2017 draws to a close I thought I would capture the garden as the year turns. I could say “in all its glory” but that would be an exaggeration as the garden has suffered from my lack of interest this year and is looking a little worse for wear. I’ve taken these photos with…
End of Month View: March 2017
The front garden is beginning to come into its own with the small narcissus and Euphorbia flowers bringing some real zing to the border. You may recall that last month I said I was thinking of filling the bigger border with small narcissus. Well I am rethinking this as if you look very carefully you…
