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This rose is lucky to be indoors

Spring has sprung?

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Shrubs are coming into life.

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Pulmonaria flowers

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Snow

Going potty  review of last year's potatoes

Turns out they were right

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Visit to bird feeding area by a male sparrowhawk.

Snow, rain and sparrowhawk

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Peach and nectarine starting to flower - more pollinating

Giving it my best shot

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Crocuses making most of brief periods of sunshine

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Lots of mini daffodils flowering

To brighten our day

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Autumn v spring planting - review of last year's onions

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Day out at East Lancashire heritage railway and Burrs Country Park

A day out and a bit of pruning

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Pruned gooseberries and jostaberries

Tidied some strawberries

Cut down conifer

Harvested some vegetables

Fruity business

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Planted shallot and onion sets in modules

Sowed salad leaves and pea shoots

Moved raised bed

Set ocas to chit

Cut back late flowering clematis

Planted primroses

Heavy lifting day

The garden's turn

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Replanted the heather being pushed out of the pot by bulb shoots

Doing it as the experts suggest

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Camellia beginning to flower

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Narcissi Bulbocodium beginning to flower

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Harvested salad leaves sown late autumn and second lot sown last week are beginning to germinate'

Poulton's Pride rhubarb bought last year is shooting

Up and running

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Trimmed climbing roses

Cut back ferns

Cleared nesting boxes

Greased bottom of peach. apricot and nectarine trunks to deter slugs

Sticky fingers

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Unseasonal greenery in the fernery

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Finished tidying strawberries

trimmed grass paths

Weeded a fruit bed

Prepared some beds for planting

Update from the strawberry patch

Teasing us

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Immature fruits have set in the apricot

Stage one - success?

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Onions have begun to shoot.

Poulton's Pride rhubarb us shooting too