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| Primulas |
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| Mukdenia |
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| Lonicera 'Harlequin' |
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| A few dry days and I was out making a start at clearing up . Pulling , yanking and raking as much as I could before it all starting growing again. Last year I waited too long and had to carefully snip around the new growth . I also missed out on enjoying many of the bulbs buried under the mess. |
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| Mickey inspecting or searching for something disgusting in the new clearing ! |
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| A day late , but here we are . More almost blooms or after blooms , but still interesting. Arctostaphylos 'St Helens with many, many muscari underneath . |
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| Hamamelis 'Jelena' |
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| My Hellebors are one of the almost blooms , I'm not really bothered , because they never look good. |
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| Another almost bloomer ...Grevillea victorae ..I think |
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| What's left of Mahonia Charity blooms |
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| Stachyurus salicifolis |
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| Seedpods of Viburnum cylindricum , I missed the blooming |
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| An almost blooming Helleborus foetidus |
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| I've lost the tag for this almost blooming Viburnum . It could be atrocyaneum f. harryanum. |
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| This is early December when we had a frosty morning . Then the rains came ! |
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| I haven't taken any photos of the garden recently, far too mucky . |
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| I needed a plant tray to fit the bottom of my high humidity mostly Orchid inclosure . It's an odd size , and I have been using a boot tray , but I thought it could use a custom made one to make the most of the space. So my favorite house plant book came in handy , with instructions for just that project. |
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| I did make a start , but then decided Philip would be better at following instructions, measuring, cutting , bending metal into a " bread pan" fold . |
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| This is a "bread pan" fold . |
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| The finished fold ! |
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| And here it is ! And a very nice water tight fit . Thank you Ernesta Drinker Ballard and Philip ! |
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| Not everything has collapsed with the first wack of cold weather , but quite a lot ! |
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| The mashed up shade garden ! I 'll leave it melt down on it's own . |
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| The best seed heads on Clematis Helios |
