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| apricot blossom in late winter... |
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| and a futile attempt to protect the apricot flowers from frost with fleece.... it's just too cold & windy here to set fruit outdoors on plants that make blossom so early in the year, so the tree's now been cut down. |
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| but we haven't totally given up, and have just planted a young dwarf apricot tree in a 50 litre pot, which can be brought into the greenhouse over winter - the other new tree's a quince |
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| it was a very good year for rhubarb, with three harvests.... |
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| chaffinch in song.... |
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| peonies - beautiful, but only in flower for a couple of weeks.... |
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| garlic drying in the greenhouse.... |
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| blackcurrants - very good crop this year.... |
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| carrots grown in containers after the early potatoes... |
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| pumpkin - one of only three to grow, and all quite small |
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| blueberries - good crop from one bush, but not from the other... |
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| pattison - generally poor results from several plants... |
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| chrysanthemums grown in pots.... |
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| cottage perennials started from seed - lupins, delphiniums, kniphofia and foxgloves, plus some of our smaller palms |
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| apples - reliable as ever... |
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| asters in pots.... |
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| tomatoes 'Tres Cantos' - tasty but a very poor yield... |
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| aubergines - some good fruits but generally a poor yield from six plants |
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| marrows - not bad, maybe 12 fruits from 4 plants... |
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| onions 'Stuttgarter' - we didn't sow nearly enough this year... |
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| perennial sweet peas - late to flower but still going ! |
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| newly-landscaped area - there's a separate post on this... |
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| we've laid the greenhouse with paving slabs (free from our neighbour). In future, we'll grow tomatoes and cucumbers in pots using fresh compost each year, which will hopefully improve the yields |
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| bargain basement time - three hydrangeas for £10 from the local garden centre, simply because they don't look very appealing at this time of year |
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| I think this is a Mistle Thrush rather than a Song Thrush, simply because of the height at which it was singing from, but maybe you know better.... |
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| Blue Tit on the new overhead power cable to the greenhouse... |
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| Goldfinch... this photo's in the 2016 folder, but it might actually be from a previous year... |
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