February 2012
5 posts
Goodbye January!
I don’t know about you, but I’m always glad to see the back end of January. It always feels such a long dull month, however as we’re now into February, the days are getting noticeably longer and spring is just a month or so away.
The crown of bulbs and herbaceous perennials are now starting to break through the ground, which is a welcome sign that the garden is starting to stir and wake up after...
Do You Dig It?…
I am always glad to see the end of January as it feels such a long dreary dull month. Now we’re in February the days are getting noticeably longer and spring is thankfully just a month away.
One welcome sight I can see from my kitchen window is my evergreen Clematis armandii ‘Apple Blossom’, which has now developed lots of new buds and will give me a mass of early slightly scented pinky-white...
Planning The Year Ahead!
It’s during this time of year that many of us plan our next summer holidays and possibly reminisce about our last summer’s break.
When I’m on my summer holidays in my favourite parts of the world, I often think how nice it must be to live in the part of the world where the sun shines most of the time, and then I realise how much I would miss what we have here…
… seasons.
It’s with the seasons...
The Beauty Of Bonsai
Before Christmas I noticed that more and more shops were selling bonsai trees and Bonsai growing kits.
Bonsai is the art of growing miniature trees in shallow containers, which originated from China.
Whenever I go to gardening exhibitions, I always marvel at their stunning beauty, it certainly is a work of art creating such a splendid living sculpture.
Bonsai trees are ‘real’ trees so...