Always worth a try

We have two camellias in our garden – a red one and a pink flowered one.

If left to their own devices the camellias would outgrow our garden and so every so often they need severely cutting back.

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Copyright: Original post from Our Plot at Green Lane Allotments http://glallotments.blogspot.co.uk/ author S Garrett

Managed a little gardening

Although the weather is conspiring against us, as Martyn described in his post, we did manage some gardening last week.

It may not seem very spring-like to us but the fruit trees are raring to go. I am a bit concerned though that the plum trees don’t appear to have many flower buds. I hope the bullfinches haven’t snaffled them.

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Copyright: Original post from Our Plot at Green Lane Allotments http://glallotments.blogspot.co.uk/ author S Garrett

Someone's busy

We were having breakfast on Saturday morning when our attention was drawn to a dead tree fern stump.

The day before I had cut back all our ferns including those growing around the base of the tree fern stump.

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Copyright: Original post from Our Plot at Green Lane Allotments http://glallotments.blogspot.co.uk/ author S Garrett

A touch of snow

We thought that the snow that was falling on other parts of the country was going to miss us but on Friday we awoke to a very wintry scene.

Fortunately, we weren't treated to the gales that were forecast to create blizzard conditions and compared to many places we escaped quite lightly.

We don't suffer from snow very often, but when we do our system doesn't cope well. News reporters become very excited reporting of stranded motorists, planes grounded, train and bus services suspended and schools closed. In the nearly thirty years that I was teaching we didn't close the school once for snow. I remember getting up early and trudging the two and a half miles to arrive at school before the children started to arrive. Playtimes were extended to allow for snowball fights and the building of snowmen.

I guess that nowadays they fear accidents that will result in schools being sued for negligence.

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Copyright: Original post from Our Plot at Green Lane Allotments http://glallotments.blogspot.co.uk/ author S Garrett

It as all going so well

I finished tidying the All Gold autumn raspberries.

Some of the plants have started to shoot but the redness on some of the young leaves is an indication that they are not enjoying the cold temperatures.

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Copyright: Original post from Our Plot at Green Lane Allotments http://glallotments.blogspot.co.uk/ author S Garrett