Home Gardens 24 April 2010

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The three mini-greenhouses I installed along the back fence. The centre one has corn (Indian Blue Hopi) and the others have two different kinds of tomato - on the left, Gartenperle, a trailing type recommended for hanging baskets; on the right, Black Krim, a heritage variety from the Crimea. Gartenperle was sown one month before Black Krim.

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Here you see the sitting corner. In the first pic notice the honeysuckle sprouting on the green arch, and in the second picture you can see the espaliered pear tree in the raised log bed sending out its pale green shoots.

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1&2 The Green Man now has two friends, and an orgone pyramid at the base of the tree. 3. The obelisk has a euonymous with 'Alchemist' climbing rose winding through, next to that is a bleeding heart. 

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1. Down the side of the house, daffodils where there used to be conifers. A pity for the blackbirds, many of whom nested there, but the council put a new roof on, and it could not be done without removing trees. Note their trunks edging the bed. 2&3 front garden with its many different-coloured shrubs - the choices were all Wolfram's. He had a good sense of colour, even though he couldn't see.

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1. View from front fence; 2. looking through trellis with climbing rose and white jasmine; 3. trellis with buds of clematis montana ready to burst

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1. Sayeed stopped to say hello; 2. on my way to Libby Land, wearing stupid hat - met Maud coming back, and she insisted on photographs being taken; 3. Latest bright idea: attached 4ft canes to rose arch, resting other ends on top of shed. Honeysuckle and jasmine will grow over it.


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