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Saturday smile: berry nice

11 Saturday Nov 2017

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Pyracantha firethorn

Pyracantha may not be the most exciting of plants. To be honest it’s a bit of a bruiser of a bush. It is a thorny brute that will not think twice about shredding my skin should I dare to approach with my snips / secateurs. 

Yet when I see Pyracantha at this time of year, trained around a gate like this in a local park, I forget what a thug it is and instead stop to admire its generous display of berries.

My Saturday smile for this weekend. I hope you are enjoying yours. D.

Saturday smile: sunlight

14 Saturday Oct 2017

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A warm October day is promised. Hoorah. This is the early sunlight illuminating grasses in my garden this morning. 

If you look carefully you should be able to see birds in flight, as if forming an orderly queue, heading to the reservoirs nearby. Canada geese perhaps? 

Enjoy your day, no matter what you may be doing. 

Saturday smile: 29/7/17

29 Saturday Jul 2017

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The sun appeared briefly, illuminating the whites. 

Shasta daisies and Hydrangea paniculata Limelight

These are growing nicely in the gravel previously used for parking. Another white catching my eye is a single Agapanthus. 

No idea what happened to the rest of them. Such is gardening. Oh well there’s always next year!

Saturday smile: Summer

08 Saturday Jul 2017

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This Summer is showing itself to be, dare I say it, good. Warm, dry and sunny. The garden this morning looked rather nice in the slightly cooler air and before the direct sun hit. 

Rose Lark Ascending 

Euphorbia Griffithii Dixter and drumstick Allium Sphaerocephalon


Hemerocallis and Helenium Moorheim Beauty, Verbena bonariensis 


Hydrangea paniculata Limelight, Box and Shasta daisies, Leucanthemum x superbum 

Whatever is making you smile today, enjoy it. 

Right I am off to paint yet more wood. More about that another day as it is not making me smile. 

Saturday smile: the palest pink to the richest orange

22 Saturday Apr 2017

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Apple blossom is covering the tree this year and it looks fabulous against the blue sky. I am a little fearful for the damage risk, posed by the forecast of cooler temperatures next week, but we cannot control the weather, can we.


We shall just have to enjoy it while we can. Another palest white with pink/ purple margins are these tulips

Named  Graceland they are part of a lovely mix of tulips with so called ‘Apricot Beauty’ and ‘La Belle Époque ‘.  Planted lasagne style they have not disappointed.

Close up La Belle Époque are very beautiful

Even their insides are attractive 


I am so pleased with these. 

I also planted a ‘scented’ mix of tulips.  Surprisingly to me they actually do what they say i.e. they smell. The colours are strong and rich, the scent rather similar to freesias. 




An eye catching bunch that are making me smile today. Enjoy your weekend.

Saturday smile: hairs

08 Saturday Apr 2017

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Today the weather reached perhaps 20 degrees, lovely.  For April that is rather unseasonal and unexpected even. If, like me, you have yet to dust off your Summer wear, the prospect of showing the world your bare legs is well, too much to bear.

The tender pelargoniums were put outside this morning and when I looked this evening I noticed Pelargonium Tomentosum was suffering the same issue.

Mind you those hairs are what makes the leaves so tactile, soft like pet ears, unlike the legs. 

I hope this made you smile. D.