The more eagle-eyed amongst the regular visitors to the Croft Garden blog may have noticed that I have changed the page format and style, and some of you may have though that this was long overdue. My sentiments entirely, and I spent most of last year notquite getting round to it, which also applies to […]
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Wordless Wednesday – Burdock in winter
Sorry late again, we had a visit from the Storm Hags yesterday.
In a vase on Monday – von Veltheim’s Lily
At the start of each year I delude myself into thinking that this year, even though I’m still at the jam jar stage of flower arranging, each month I will make a contribution to Cathy’s IAVOM meme. If the weather had been less arctic, there would have been a reasonable chance of a very small posy […]
Winter myths and magic
The gales, ugly sons of the Ancient Screamer, began to send the snow. The waves, storm loving daughters of the sea, nursed by the mountains’ frost, wove and ripped against the foam.Edda. c.1220 – Snorri Sturiuson This is not the soft fluffy snow of Christmas cards and an integral part of the Victorian Christmas fantasy, […]
Is it really that time?
I’m not sure whether this was déjà vu, or a Rip Van Winkle moment, but the discovery of this lovely iris growing in a crevice in the rock garden stopped me in my tracks. Perhaps it was the shock of being liberated from its pot and planted outdoors or maybe it is as confused as […]