January 2016

 

 

 

 

 

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This diary is a summary of our garden activities. The links are to blog posts that often give more detail.

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January 2015 diary entry

January seed sowing schedule

Details of what was sown/planted in January

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For January 2016 weather summary

January harvesting schedule

Details of our January harvest

 

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One of our orchids is shooting again

 

 

 

 

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Last year's late sown peas didn't quite make it.
Something ventured - late peas

 

 

 

 

 

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Crocus shooting and forming buds.

Allotment bounty 2015

 

 

 

 

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Ferns still in leaf and some passion flower leaves just turning

 

 

 

 

 

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Crocus shooting and forming buds.

Allotment bounty 2015

 

 

 

 

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Miniature daffodil - Minnow - in the pebble garden

 

 

 

 

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Some crocuses are producing buds but the snowdrops are no further on than I would expect.

A conundrum

 

 

 

 

 

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These could be fritillaria Michailowskyi or not

 

 

 

 

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February Gold mini daffodils have flower buds

 

 

 

 

 

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A day lily still producing flower buds.

 

 

 

 

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Berries on ophiopogon

Garden shots

 

 

 

 

 

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Our next door neighbour's pelargonium is still flowering

Great survivors

 

 

 

 

 

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Fungus is growing on some old slices of tree trunk used as stepping stones in the border

Investigating the garden

 

 

 

 

 

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The summer onions are beginning to rot in storage. It was damp when they were lifted and has been damp most of the time since.

Rotting away

 

 

 

 

 

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A frosty start to the day and a frozen bird bath.

A taste of winter

 

 

 

 

 

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Cut back the spreading perennials on the front garden bed to let the bulbs through.

I felt that I had little choice

 

 

 

 

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First lot of snow fell last night.

Snowy

Wouldn't you just know it?

 

 

 

 

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Visited the plot and harvested, carrots,  leeks, parsnips, beetroot and Brussels sprouts.

Cut old canes from blackberry.

Harvesting parsnips

Soggy harvest

Still a mild winter - allotment video

 

 

 

 

 

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First lot of seeds starting to arrive

Flower Power

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Main seed order, onion and shallot sets arrive.

Saving the coldest to last

 

 

 

 

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Visit to the garden centre and we bought two African violets, a bowl of hyacinths and a pot each of iris reticulata, Joyce, iris reticulata J S Dijt, iris reticulata unnamed varietyand Ipheion uniflorum Wisley Blue.

 

 

 

 

 

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The moss is enjoying all the rain

 

 

 

 

 

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Cut old leaves off hellebores as they were covering the snowdrops.

There are lots of self sown hellebore seedlings.

Change of plan

 

 

 

 

 

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First mini daffodil tête à tête flowering

 

 

 

 

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Bought a hellebore Spring Promise and two saxifragas

 Alpino Early Lime and Alpino Early White.

 

 

 

 

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Hyacinths are filling the room with perfume

The main potato order has arrived

.Ready for the off

 

 

 

 

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Where is the pot of gold?

 

 

 

 

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The first day of the big garden bird count

Bird count results

 

 

 

 

 

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Bought another pot of hyacinths for the bathroom and some potatoes to try, 5 tubers each of Amour, Setanta, Vivaldi, Blue Belle, Orla and Valor

Steam and potatoes

 

 

 

 

 

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