Changes are happening apace in the garden. So much so that the following post is out of date, with the photos dating back to 21st April. I present the post to you in it’s original form regardless: Some of the later flowering Corydalis are still in flower – Corydalis vittae is still going strong and […]
I found this lurking in the drafts folder – the unpublished second part of An Intrepid Voyage into the Garden. Without further ado, we hark back to the heady days of 2024; better late than never: And so we begin the second part of one of the least high-stake adventures ever to take place. We
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We’re well into Corydalis solida season now: it’s been over a month since the first signs of growth appeared. The earliest flowering dividuals have already finished flowering – their efforts now turn to propagation. After producing an abundance of tiny black pearly seeds, they will quickly retreat to the subterranean world, completing their frantic overground
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I finished my last post with a mutterance about close ups; I am writing today to make good on that idle postulation. Despite the abundance of flourishing Dicentras, and the plentiful rich blue hues of Corydalis flexuosa cultivars and hybrids, I found myself drawn to the milder and meeker relatives of these showier plants. I
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Here’s another attempt to try and document a little of the goings on in the garden. It’s a doomed attempt, of course; even noticing everything that happens at this time of year is difficult enough, let alone photographing and writing about it. In fact part of this post was written about a month ago: I’d
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Blimey! Possibly even Gadzooks! for the Tintin aficionados amongst you. Spring has pounced upon the dozily slumbering garden with the glee of a toddler jumping on their hungover parents’ bed. It seems to have come round earlier than usual this year but after perusing photos of previous years I’m not sure this is the case.
As promised, here are a few photos of some winter visitors to the garden. They were all taken at the tail end of January; low afternoon sun and midwinter warmth released indecent wafts of perfume from Lonicera x purpusii, calling in all the hibernal foragers in the area. There were lots of these chaps, which
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I wrote this post a few weeks ago. Since then quite a few plants have begun to flower in the mild weather, so what appears below doesn’t seem quite so noteworthy. At the time of writing there were no other flowers to be seen! Anyway, here we go: Winter certainly isn’t the peak time of
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I had fully intended to do a Corydalis update in January – there seemed to be plenty of time to take in the scant floral offerings of midwinter – but as usual, time marched onwards with complete disregard for my plans. So here we are in February. A couple of mild spells have brought the
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…since I wrote anything here, or even remotely thought about it. As I am sure you’re acutely aware, Things have a habit of Happening; sometimes unexpected, sometimes anticipated, they happen all the same. Sometimes these Things take up more time than you thought they might. Regardless, I intend to begin this year in the same
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