Archive for September, 2008

Other people’s gardens

The sun has returned over the past few days and cast a wonderful autumnal light over late flowering plants that have survived the very heavy rainfall of the past weeks.
I decided to take a walk round Lewes to see what is growing in other people’s gardens. I love checking out front gardens - it seems [...]

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Its not all bad news!

Just ventured out into the garden to take this close up pic of my lovely sun-flower to cheer everyone up.

Enough of the doom and gloom in the news and the weather forecast http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/
Here are some REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL:
The beautiful soft pink clematis on my south facing terrace has started flowering again which is an [...]

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Indian summer or monsoon?

August officially marks the end of what the Met Office call summer and we are now into the Autumn forecast.
They suggest that temperatures will be above average and rainfall below average. Does this mean that we might have an Indian summer like the last two years of wonderful sunny days right until the end of [...]

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