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Tag Archives: “My Garden Age”
Rainy Day Benefits
All my recent posts about welfare benefits have dragged my down, not helped by the everyday rain. It seems like I have chosen the driest subject to talk about in the wettest spring I can remember. It … Continue reading
My Garden Age 70
My garden is growing faster than me, steadily, constantly, relentlessly. Some of the trees, shrubs and flowers, were there before me and will be there after me. I was born into my garden age, to nurture the things around … Continue reading
Aimlessly Aiming
It’s a dryin’ lovely, Michalmas daisy kind of day; A bulb planting, sow the seeds of spring beginning. The old age starting of a new life, a year at a time. My Garden Age. Less of a young years … Continue reading
My Garden Age 3
It’s been a three years since I last wrote about my garden. (You can see all the earlier posts on my garden by clicking on “My Garden Age” in the TAG CLOUD). This year has been a particularly good year … Continue reading
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My Garden Age – Apple Tree
Not to be outdone by the spring flowers, (see my last post) the cox’s apple tree is just breaking into bloom , waking from its winter slumber. How many more years will this grandfather of the garden continue to deliver … Continue reading
My Garden Age – Spring Flowers
Spring just has to be one of the best times of the year in the garden. After the hibernation of colour through the winter months the daffodils in February/March herald the beginning of a rainbow. Now by April/May the picture … Continue reading
“Flowers are Friends”
In this wettest of summers, the garden has kept growing at a furious pace, weeds and all. Everywhere is endlessly green. Perhaps this is the real green party :-). The trouble is that the rain and the green get relentlessly … Continue reading
