Friday 4 April 2014

Plum blossom

Trees full of plum blossom for Skywatch Friday.
My favourite camellia is starting to flower. I think she's called something like E.P. Thompson, I'll have to grovel about in the foliage to find the label.

There are masses of blooms on the big red shrub. I've picked a few for the dining room table.
The flowers in the greenhouse are going over.
These little violets seed themselves freely all about the garden.
Today's task has been to remove moss from the lawn.
There seemed to be more moss than grass!
Enough for another bonfire.


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  1. Oh, Rosemary, you make me long for spring, which should have arrived two weeks ago. There are signs though, there are signs.

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    1. I'm happy to share my spring with you, Maybe, until yours turns up. Keep wearing the socks!

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  2. Beautiful skies over the plum blossoms! Great photos!!

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    1. I look at that blossom and think jam, chutney, stewed fruit, puree, honey. A bumper harvest in the autumn keeps us supplied all year!

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  3. What lovely views of spring: very green grass, blooming daffs -- not arrived here yet, but you have given me hope to hold out for our own. Thanks! -Beth

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    1. Yes, sometimes it seems a very long wait before spring appears. The flowers in my garden seem to be tougher than I am because they are performing well in weather that I don't yet want to be out in.
      Hang on in there, Beth, your spring will probably come in a great burst!

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  4. This is so funny: you live in Northern Europe and your plants are already in full bloom. Does the Gulf stream influence your climate?

    Those triangular camellia petals are beautiful. I have never seen the flower before.

    A posting with a bonfire is a good posting :-)

    greetings,
    Paula

    PS: Our Friday skywatch was nothing like yours, there is a weird weather situation in Austria at the Moment - desert air!

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    1. Hello Paula, I don't know whether or not the Gulf Stream is beneficial to my garden. I know that I live on a hill and the wind is chilly!

      Yes, it is the formal structure of the petals combined with the most subtle blush of pink on 'E.G. Waterhouse' that makes it such a beautiful flower.

      YES - a posting with a bonfire IS GOOD!

      We have had similar problems, especially in the S.E. with desert dust mixed with pollutants. People with chest problems were advised to stay indoors.
      Rx.

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  5. No wonder it's your favorite camellia. When we used to make tissue paper flowers in school I never realized that one like that actually existed in real life!

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    1. I can just picture you in school, Connie, snip, snipping away! I don't know how camellias fare in your neck of the woods, but I've named it correctly in the next post so you might be able to find it at a garden centre.

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  6. I enjoyed your blogpost very much, lovely camellias and I was amazed that your lawn is already so nice green. I am here for the first time and will be a new follower.

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    1. Welcome Janneke, I've been looking at your postings and admiring the many different camellias. Now I'm looking forward to following your garden as it moves through the seasons.
      Our lawn may look green from a distance but it does not stand up to close scrutiny, the moss killer was applied rather patchily so the result is some very heavy hits and quite a few patches of misses. We raked up and burnt a vast amount of moss.

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    1. Hello Wildside, I've left a comment or two on your blog!

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  8. Everything looks lovely! Your camellias are beautiful. I have pretty flowers, but the leave lack the hard green luster I see on yours. Have a fabulous week.

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    1. I'd hoped to be blogging about Stratford-upon-Avon and reporting on Henry 1V part 2 but I'm home with a cold and shall miss Shallow say, "Nay, you shall see my orchard, where, in an arbour, we will eat a last year's pippin of mine own grafting, with a dish of caraways and so forth." Himself and our friends, the Young and Fit, will be enjoying it without me - I feel like Cinderella!

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  9. Hi there, beautiful flowers. I'm just stopping by to say how delightful your blog is. Thanks so much for sharing. I have recently found your blog and am now following you, and will visit often. Please stop by my blog and perhaps you would like to follow me also. Have a wonderful day. Hugs, Chris
    http://chelencarter-retiredandlovingit.blogspot.ca/

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    1. Hello Chris, I'm just over the bridge and down a bit from where you used to live before you swapped a red lion for a red leaf! I've had a peep at your blog and you look a very busy lady!

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  10. What a beautiful garden you have! I love camellias.

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    1. The flowers tend to get easily spoilt and weather battered in our climate but they are still lovely plants to grow because of their glossy, evergreen leaves and the fact that they don't seem to mind being cut back quite vigorously to be kept in shape..

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