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- Rothschild Orchid
- I'm a thirtysomething with a passion for gardening, wildlife, art, photography and beautiful cats. I've recently moved back home to help reclaim my parents rambling and overgrown smallholding.
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New survey launched to improve farm safety - A new survey has been launched to understand current attitudes towards farm health and safety.
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Almost Wordless Wednesday ~ Fernery - Our visit to RHS Garden Harlow Carr last month coincided with an exhibition entitled 'Seventy Days Of Sculpture', to celebrate the garden's 70th birthday...
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Wildflower Wednesday: Ostrya virginiana is still dancing in the garden - Can you see the dancer in the tree? I do. She's still there, dancing in the tree all year round. It's been forever ago that I first saw her; so long ago t...
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A long overdue update - I was astonished to find when I came back to my blog yesterday that it has been more than three months since I blogged. In fact my Spanish friend asked me...3 weeks ago
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The wait is over, a Nuthatch! - Not a garden sighting as yet, but a first sighting non-the-less. Delighted! I knew where there was a chance of seeing this bird, now that it is being seen ...
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Getty Museum Gardens - I visited the larger-than-life Getty Center soon after it opened in 1997, and was allowed to wander through the gardens before the campus opened for the da...2 months ago
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Dahlia Break Out - I purchased a small tuber for ‘Break Out’ Dahlia at the farmers market last year. It grew well and multiplied into a huge tuber, which I dug in the fall an...2 months ago
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10 basic gardening tips for beginners - So you’ve finally got some outdoor space and you want to start a garden Here’s 10 tips to help get you off to the right start. Buy yourself a spade. You do...3 months ago
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Another beautiful Crossbill comes to drink - It is interesting when you look closely at a Crossbill to see that the beak crosses either from the left or the right. This gives you the opportunity somet...4 months ago
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Iconic British gardens - Beth Chatto Gardens, Essex - Beth Chatto Gardens in springtimeIt's always a pleasure to visit the Beth Chatto Gardens in Essex - a green oasis near Colchester, created from a once-neg...
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12 Tips on How To Use Color Effectively In The Garden - [image: Color In the Gardene] There are several elements that make up a well thought out landscape: they include structure, shape, texture, scent, and movem...
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Garden Blogger Bloom Day May 2019 - Hello. It’s been a while, I know, but there is still gardening going on at the Fairegarden. Lots of it, as much as possible in every kind of weather. May i...6 months ago
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Millions Missing - It's International ME Awareness day today. I've decided to take part in #MillionsMissing - a global campaign which has been happening on this day for sev...
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When Life Slows You Down...... Unexpectedly! - [Anemonopsis macrophylla foliage] When Life Slows You Down Sometimes life has a way of telling you that you need to slow down. And when this happens, yo...
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Who were David Austin's favourite women? - The late David Austin named many of his roses after women but who were his favourite 'Gardening Women'? Related Stories - Last opportunity to ...10 months ago
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O Holy Night - The amazing voice of Michael Crawford with Trans-Siberian Orchestra *Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukah *
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IN HOSPITAL - The most recent post on Loose and Leafy in Halifax explains I am not blogging because I am in hospital.1 year ago
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“There are no onions” exclaimed the chef “we must use deck quoits”. - I love trains. Sometimes Not in a nerdy kind of a way – I did not even have s train set when I was a child preferring instead to opt for Scalextric. It w...1 year ago
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Stag’s horn Sumach In Autumn - The Rhus typhina shrub, commonly known as the Stag’s horn sumach, in autumn has a brilliant array of colour. It’s an understated large suckering, bushy s...1 year ago
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Two castles: two gardens: a view or two - The double tall beeches make a tunnel along which the visitor travels on the top of a levee above the surrounding landscape. This is the driveway to Dr...1 year ago
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A change is as good as a rest - I have started a fresh and ever so sparkly new blog home for the continuation on this blog. It's called A Stubborn Optimist and I would be extremely happy ...
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Online Pills Review: Get Your Prescription Drugs Delivered to Any Location Globally - Online Pills is an online network comprising several pharmacies with an identical homepage, dispenses the same types of medications, and ensures that all...1 year ago
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Songbirds of 2017 ~ Wood Warblers - I so look forward to the return of wood warblers to our gardens and fields and forest! I have a few featured from 2017 on my latest post over on my Garden ...
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Radishes from Senegal! - I bought some radishes in the supermarket the other day. Turns out that they were grown in – Senegal! Isn’t that astonishing?! Related Stories ...1 year ago
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Plant of the Year 2017: Narcissus 'Thalia' - *Narcissus* 'Thalia'In selecting plants of the year my usual thought has been to nominate something that gives a long season of interest, but this year I...
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Hungry Birds - Hokkaido's Steller sea eagles - .. Only 16 months after the event I finally post some pics of our boat trip to photograph sea eagles in Rausu, Hokkaido, Japan in February 2016. I might e...
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Sheep Piss Hay and Squinty Celia - I don’t know why we called her Squinty Celia. Well, her name was Celia, so that was one part of it. She was a bit squinty too, so that’ll explain the oth...2 years ago
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Pansies, milkweed & daffs, oh my! - Yes, it's been a while since I've posted. All is well...just very, very busy. There isn't a lot of time these days to post free stuff, or even to donate a...
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New Year, New Blog - Thank you to everyone who has read and continues to read my blog here. For the past six years this blog has been a labour of love and a fantastic way to ...
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BOMBING SYRIA - This blog is not just about gardening, it's about what I'm thinking while I'm gathering leaves and burying bulbs. This is what I'm thinking about our gover...4 years ago
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A fresh new blog - Blogging feels very retro these days. I started this blog in 2009 and then abandoned it in 2012 and lately I've been thinking about getting back on it agai...4 years ago
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Breadcrumbs...and a hike - A few things to let you know about. We've had this on our "must do that someday' list since we first moved up here. A visit to a local wooded area that wa...
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Coreopsis ‘Solanna Golden Sphere’: New from Mr Fothergill’s - [image: Coreopsis 'Solanna Golden Sphere' is a tough and prolific new perennial. Image ©Danziger]I know there are gardeners who see perennial coreopsis mor...5 years ago
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20 Books - [image: books] I was reading an article in The Guardian the other day, ‘The 100 books to actually read in a lifetime’. It was commenting on a recent list...
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Boundaries! - Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment. ~ Marshall McLuhan Today on the Roundtable we are d...5 years ago
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Off Again - Yay, at least for me anyway. I think Ian is a bit disappointed. Back in the fall! This was taken at a J24 regatta in Barbados, I think it looks a bit like...6 years ago
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To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow - I’ve been quiet here for a long time. I have still been gardening – more furiously than ever in fact – just mainly in my dad’s vegetable garden now. Dad’s ...6 years ago
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For future reference, see Awkward Hill - I moved from Wandsworth, in south-west London, in November 2012, and I now live in the Cotswolds. You can read about my garden there at Tales from Awkward H...6 years ago
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Winter Beauty - A bench or table smothered in white snow is transforming. Lines may be accentuated as in the table and chairs scene; creating a surreal view. Or the pictu...
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Midnight brambling is moving on… - Hello! I have a new place to blog. Please come and see it here. If you are an email subscriber to this blog, you will need to come over and sign up there (...7 years ago
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one of my (many) excuses for blog neglect... - Come see me and the 250+ other crafters and artists. I promise I might start posting again if you do ;) Until P.R.L. (post-Renegade life).... xoxo
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The Hunting of the Salad - Getting my salad together for February was quite an ordeal after that prolonged spell of heavy frost. Gone were most of the plants that so amply provided m...
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The Botanic Garden was full of Masked Tyrants - Dear Reader, January seems to be the time when a lot of lazy bloggers re-visit their dusty old pages. I suppose it's similar to the gyms being packed full ...7 years ago
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A recipe for disaster - I love a good typo more than most, so was over the moon when steered towards the latest (December 3) issue of Amateur Gardening. There’s an almighty howler...8 years ago
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A golden harvest - How did we get to October already? The golden light of disappearing rays of sunshine is has brought an unmistakable warm glow to sedums, grasses, Japanese ...
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Blog is on the move - For those of you who perhaps haven't seen my last post: I’ve decided to move the blog to wordpress… Why? Well I’m tired of having problems logging into bl...8 years ago
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WE HAVE MOVED! - The all new, all singing, all dancing web site and blog for the Hegarty Webber Partnership can now be found at: www.HegartyWebberPartnership.com See yo...9 years ago
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Behind every great garden.. - ... is a great gardener. If you are interested in Historic Garden Conservation, Chiswick House is a good place to see what can be done. A huge injection o...
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13 comments:
Those colours are truly beautiful. Like a rainbow in a flower. Stunning.
Beautiful..and the perfect title..yes very electric!
What a beautiful color combination!
As the song says :)
"I can see
Can see that it may be
Just a vision for you
Electric blue"
Giving it a title like that makes one want to jump back from the sparks.
Lucy
I needed a picture with a bit of spark today, its been such a lacklustre Friday!
Glad you've enjoyed it :o)
Very pretty!
Amazing flower!! Even more amazing photo!
I love pinks and purples in the garden. It brings a sense of 'coolness' to the garden as opposed to bright orange and yellow colors. In the heat of the summer, I need to 'cool' down.
Lovely and what a good title to describe the cornflower well i think it is.
It really is electric! You can feel the energy emanating from the flower! gail
Beautiful, absolutely beautiful but (showing my ignorance) what is it? My best guess is a corn flower
Yes you are right Yan and Joanne it is the perennial cornflower Centaurea montana. I love them, they are such vibrant plants :o)
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