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It’s cold and frosty again and I’m way behind with all garden work. So I’m going back to 1st May 2011, when I was able to post
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Suddenly, the Christmas decorations look a little silly. I spent much of the morning gardening and before I came in, picked a spray of roses.


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View from a bedroom window.


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roses and philadelphus are flowering together like this.


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The other evening I was sitting admiring the way the late sun was lighting up the bright red new shoots of the rose which climbs into (and is probably killing) the mossed cottage tree. Today I saw that the whole lot had been sheared off. It didn't take any detective skills to know that a deer has been in the garden. Rats. Yesterday's rose opened ( Read more... )

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I don't grow Carnations, but there are some pictures of lilies and roses here
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