Showing posts with label heather. Show all posts
Showing posts with label heather. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 5, 2022

April's Prank

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Day 174: Shame on you, April! Or as my grandmother used to reproach me as a child, "He who fools when Fool's is past / Is the bigge...
Sunday, March 28, 2021

Heather, Comma

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Day 166: March is a little early for the Commas to be out and about, so I was rather surprised to find one on my heather yesterday. The day ...
Sunday, March 3, 2019

Resilience

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Day 141: Landscape heather (genus Erica) as is commonly seen in gardens is not too far removed genetically from that found in the alpine...
Monday, March 19, 2018

Heather

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Day 157: "Tenacious" is a good word. The blooms on my purple heather are not this spring's crop; they've held on all wi...
Sunday, April 16, 2017

Easter Blooms

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Day 185: The colour in my garden is patchy, but there's no denying that Spring has arrived. My earliest memories of Easter involved s...
Monday, March 14, 2016

Heather

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Day 153: Among the ground covers I've added to the garden over the last two years were several heathers, selected primarily because t...
Sunday, September 13, 2015

Purple When Purchased

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Day 335: It was a pretty lavender colour when I bought it. I swear it was. I would not have bought a pink-flowering heather (or a pink-fl...
Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Making More Work

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Day 183: I had to go to town today and wanted to pick up some more bark mulch for the garden, but wound up with a little extra time on my...