
Merry Christmas!
Wishing everyone a happy day and contented times ahead. I’ve succumbed to a cold and am trying not to sneeze on my cat. Nothing is perfect in this world but we’ll make the best of it! Continue reading Merry Christmas!
Wishing everyone a happy day and contented times ahead. I’ve succumbed to a cold and am trying not to sneeze on my cat. Nothing is perfect in this world but we’ll make the best of it! Continue reading Merry Christmas!
Feels like it’s been a long week, am probably getting lock-down fatigue. Work has been slow, with a lot of student cancellations this week, my son is still not back at school after the half term break, to be honest even the cat is getting on my nerves, following me around from room to room and being ever present. I have managed to do a … Continue reading Six on Saturday: 14 Nov 2020
Hello everyone, I’m back for another SOS, slightly late in the day but I have a good excuse: I was out gardening! Also having a glass of Champagne to celebrate a certain world event that could mean that one good thing did happen in 2020. Anyway, it’s been perfect gardening weather in Brussels: mild, clear skies, and the earth is damp enough to crumble nicely … Continue reading Six on Saturday: 7 November 2020
My dahlias are on borrowed time now, so I saved a couple from the wild, wet weather, and added the richly scented Viburnum farreri to this earthy tones arrangement. As mentioned in a previous post for Six on Saturday, this shrub is down by my compost heap so it seemed like I should do it the favour of more sustained attention! The scent is wonderfully … Continue reading Earthy tones: in a vase on Monday
I’m back for another six! Thoroughly enjoyed my first foray last week into the gardening blogging sensation that is Six on Saturday, hosted by the Propagator. Thinking about what to feature here and running out to take photos when the light is good between English classes is either i) a sign of an obsession gone too far or ii) a very welcome distraction from Covid … Continue reading Six on Saturday: 31 October 2020
I’m joining the online blogging community this week with “Six on Saturday”, the idea of a clever gardening blogger known as The Propagator, where we all highlight six things in the garden. Gosh, am finding it hard to restrict myself to six! Here is a link to The Propagator’s six by the way: https://thepropagatorblog.wordpress.com/2020/10/24/six-on-saturday-24-10-2020/ 1 Grasses in autumnal sunlight. One of the highlights of this … Continue reading Six on Saturday: 24 Oct 2020
So, mid-October, there is a nip in the air, and the garden is dominated by the slow but steady leaf fall from our neighbours’ lime and hornbeam trees, which cover almost everything in about half of our back garden. Yes, they make a terrible mess and it’s a lot of work clearing them, so nowadays I have kind of given up on having a tidy … Continue reading My monthly Fab Five: October
It’s been raining heavily for days here, but this morning when the sun came out I could really see how the plants had benefited from a good and long-awaited drenching! They looked fresh and full of life, so I took some pics of my top performers right now. Here they are: Rain then sunshine: a combo that is made for Alchemilla Mollis (Lady’s Mantle), a … Continue reading Early autumn stars
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