Friday, December 18, 2020

Gardening in the winter


This time of year I pull out books by my favorite garden writers .  Usually  I read a chapter  before I go off to sleep at night.  I've started re reading ' My Garden in Autumn and winter ' by E.A. Bowles  and ' An all the year garden' by Margery Fish . I skipped straight to the winter chapters . 
Both of these gardeners spent a great deal of time " well wrapped " enjoying , taking stock, and working in the winter garden  . 

" Of course some people  don't want to go into the garden in the winter"  that  from Margery Fish  ,   Walter her husband didn't . 

 I can be a bit that way . I usually leave things till  there is a nice sunny clear day in March . I don't get on with  a" wrapping up" and I hate the damp, cold and grey. 


But, inspired by these two gardeners of the past , I  have  been pushing myself to get out " wrap up" and get out there.
So I've  started  pulling, snipping and raking . Gathering armloads of dead stuffing and filling all my big buckets ... it's  not so bad after all , but it was dry today.


 

Monday, December 14, 2020

In a vase on Monday


 

As luck will have it ...I sniped all these today .

Tuesday, December 8, 2020

December in the garden

I seem to have missed ' November in the garden' , but it rained  all month .  
                  The old chopped down Lilac tree stumps have become mossy stepping stones.

Styrax japonica  



 Lots of this about...







Not Lilac stumps , real mossy cement with  mondo lawn