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    Six signs of life in the garden on 26th Jan 2019


    January 26th, 2019 - cottage garden plants, Spring gardening, Winter gardening

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    One

    Here’s a pink pulmonaria, known as lungwort because of the spots on the leaves.  I think this variety is “Raspberry Splash”.

    It’s evergreen here in town and is good ground cover in shade.  When the leaves look tatty I cut them off and new ones appear at once.  This clump seems to be spreading without any help from me but sometimes I lift a bit up and move it somewhere so as to keep the spreading going.

    Six on saturday from a cottage garden

    Pulmonaria

     

    Six on saturday

    Pulmonaria flowering early for the early bees

    Two

    Fabulous hellebores ready for the opening of Chelsea Physic Garden this weekend “Heralding Spring” where we feature snowdrops and early spring plants.  Snowdrop lovers from all over the country come to buy rare varieties and see the displays in the garden.  See website for opening details.

    Chelsea physic garden Six on Saturday

    Chelsea Physic Garden

     

    Six on Saturday hellebores at Chelsea Physic Garden

    Hellebores at Chelsea Physic Garden

     

    Three

    Six on Saturday

    Lupins

    Six dwarf lupins came free with JParkers bulbs.  No idea what to do with them so I’ve had them sitting about in the kitchen and they’ve got on with growing – just got on with it – so now I really will have to do something sensible with them.

    Four

    Six on Saturday scented shrubs

    Beautiful waxy flowers on the winter honeysuckle “lonicera fragrantissima”

    These are flowers of winter flowering honeysuckle, lonicera fragrantissima (or similar variety). The wonderful scent fills the garden all winter.  It’s an indestructible and ugly shrub but always worth having.   Just pop it in somewhere where it can spread and let it do its thing.

    Five

    clematis

    clematis

    New shoots/buds (not sure which) on a summer flowering clematis doing their thing.  This is what I love about plants.  They know what to do without asking us every five minutes. They are programmed to continue with or without our help.  Great.

    There are some plants of course that sit and sulk and wait for you to give them more attention.  I don’t have those in the garden and if I find I’ve got one, I give it to someone else with more compassion.

    Six

    honeysuckle

    honeysuckle

    Some lovely new buds on a summer flowering honeysuckle that just epitomise life bursting into life.  Yes these new buds might get battered by terrible weather in the next couple of months but they will produce new buds.  They try try and try again.

    There’s my Six signs of life.   Thank you to the Propagator for hosting this theme of Six on Saturday.  On his blog you will find other people’s sixes.

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    6 comments on "Six signs of life in the garden on 26th Jan 2019"

    1. Sophie says:
      26th January 2019 at 7:10 pm

      All those heavenly hellebores or hellobores as my Hubbie called them the other Day! 🤣

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      1. Julie Quinn says:
        3rd February 2019 at 11:16 am

        Sorry I only just saw your comment – they seem to hide. I think hellobores sounds lovely.

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    2. March says:
      27th January 2019 at 12:28 am

      Very lovely photos that have me yearning for spring. Amongst all those hellebores I would think I’d died and gone to heaven! I hope to add more each year until I run out of shady garden space.

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      1. Julie Quinn says:
        3rd February 2019 at 11:17 am

        You must really love them. Luckily they do self seed don’t they, but slowly.

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    3. @cavershamjj says:
      28th January 2019 at 7:10 am

      I do love to see clematis growth coming through. After a couple of years of tentative growth, most of mine seem to be very keen to grow. I think this is the year…!

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      1. Julie Quinn says:
        3rd February 2019 at 11:19 am

        Isn’t is always so hard though to cut them right down when we see all those shoots but we know we have to , with late ones anyway. One year I cut down the alpina in november. Then realised my mistake. Wished I could have glued it all back on. Good luck with all yours and show us the pics.

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