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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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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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