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Sunday February 13, 2005
Hellebore argutifolius (Corsican hellebore). at full flowering on a sunny February day.
Sue Beesley
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One small step
Due mostly to the hail and wind and partly to my current focus on the car, all I did was put four bags of topsoil in one polytunnel border. Hardly counts as gardening. Still - lots of stuff happening despite my lack of attention. Purple, cream and white crocuses, scented daphne,
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February blues
On the bright side, the days are getting longer and every day there's some new spark of life in the garden. On the down side, it's light when I'm at work and dark when I'm get home, so there's this
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Tuesday February 08, 2005
Pic of the day. Hazy sunshine, 10C, light breeze. Should be gardening, not sneaking home to glance at the crocuses.
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A new life
One of my Sorbus 'Joseph Rock' seeds has sprouted. Yippee!
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Perfect weather for just looking
Beautiful day. High pressure and still. Sun came out about 1pm and it was wall to wall blue for a few hours. The grass seemed to grow half an inch and the first clutch of cream crocuses tentatively opened up. A small flock of greenfinches spent the afternoon picking at
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Up in smoke
At the end of the garden is my trusty polytunnel, smoke seeping out of its seams. It's had its winter clean up today - sprayed with Citrox disinfectant, scrubbed and hosed down. I've also taken off the top two inches or so of soil from the borders,
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the year starts here...
My delivery from Chase Organics arrived - a box full of promise for next year's garden. Job for this weekend is to clean and smoke out the polytunnel. The broad beans can go in now - then just wait for the weather to warm up.
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Friday January 21, 2005
Next year's garden in a box
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no gardening
Spent a day taking the Merc apart and went for a bike ride today instead. Sorry garden - maybe next weekend. UP to 13C today, some sun, one shower, 13mph max wind. Took the rain guage down to test it.
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mental state and lifespan
Apparently people with a healthy mental outlook on life live longer. I take this to mean people who see life as half full, rather than half empty, people who relax easily, laugh a lot, worry little. On the face of it nothing gets to me, I slide through life'
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Thursday January 13, 2005
In true English winter style, we've gone from 10C and 30mph winds to 1C and completely still. The barometer graph for the last two weeks looks like seafront fairy lights, dipping up and down every 48 hours. A senior member of staff has resigned, my intestines hurt, it&