The weather this week has once again been awful to say the least with a good mix of torrential rain, hail at times and strong winds with some night time temperatures still around freezing. Many of our plants here in the nursery are still showing little signs of growth due to lack of sunshine and cool conditions and when new growth does appear it is burnt again with a fresh bout of cold weather, this can be very frustrating from a growing point of view.
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| Our Sad Looking Fuchsia Alba |
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| Beautiful Pieris Forest Flame |
In our own garden many mature plants are not looking their best right now either and are slow to come out of winter mode. I had admired the fresh new growth of a Pieris forest flame with blazing bright red foliage in my shrub border last weekend only to realise by Thursday the lovely new growth had been hit with the cold weather again and my hardy Fuchsia's are showing little signs of life at the minute, we have only managed to cut our lawn once so far this year as every time we get a spare hour to do a few jobs you've guessed it rains.
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| Cherry Blossom |
life this week with pink and white trees bringing welcome colour to gardens along my route to work, and as I took my dog poppy out for her usual walk the sloe trees have more blossom than I have seen for many a year so maybe things are on the up as they say and it's nearly time to get the bbq out. Hopefully there will be plenty of sloe berries this year if I can pick them before the birds get to them to make one of my particular favourites sloe gin a nice little tipple for the winter months a head.
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| Sloe Blossom (Bring On The Gin!!) |
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