Just a few hours between these two photos…
Early
5 hours later
The Cyclamen all along the back wall is coming into bloom.
A very late daffodil is coming up between some ferns.
Tag Archives: Clematis Montana Elizabeth
Scylla, Cyclamen and A Lone Daffodil
Bulbs, Scent and A Film
It has been a beautiful Autumn day today, cold, bright and sunny and I spent some time planting bulbs for a beautiful Spring. So far I have planted up four of our chimney pots. The pictures are from the packets of bulbs………..
Mixed Muscari
Dwarf Iris Injad Sherwood
Dwarf iris Reticulata Gordon
Mixed Dwarf Iris
There are just five rather raggedy and weather beaten Clematis Montana Elizabeth flowers but their scent carries right along the path.
We have been to see a brilliant and very disturbing film this evening, “Sorry We Missed You” directed by Ken Loach. There was a live streamed Q&A afterwards with Ken Loach, the writer Paul Laverty and the four main actors. That was as passionate and hard hitting as the film which you really must see if at all possible. It is a heartbreaking record of so many lives today and why we in the UK need a change of government. 
Six on Saturday – Hannah and the Tulips
Storm Hannah came in overnight and though I first though the tulips had survived, they were a little the worse for wear so we decided to cut our losses and cut them for indoors. Thanks to the suggestion from Nancy of Spirit Lights The Way
1. Tulips Click on any photo for detail.
Last week
After Storm Hannah
Now
2. The Edible Garden
In fact, we have lots of edible bits in our garden including the veggie boxes and the herbs but this trough has herbs and edible flowers as well as salads right by the kitchen door. I have planted up all the little plug plants that we bought at a local nursery. The tiles at the back are Victorian from a fireplace in the house I lived in when I was five years old. Mum collected them when the fire place was changed and I love them. They show various land based tasks like seed sowing and scything.
Beautiful rows
3. Clematis
We have three spots in the garden with Clematis Montana Elizabeth . This one is growing up an old tree stump near the back shed and the scent is gorgeous. We can smell it from the arbour which is just across the way.
Montana Elizabeth up the shed
4. Twin Tulips
Most of our Tulips are over but this pair recently turned up in the tubs that held the purple and white ones. It’s an oddity.
Twin Tulips
5. The Geum in the curved wall is bringing wonderful pops of colour where all the Spring bulbs are now finished.
Geum – Flames of Passion
6. A treat
We treated ourselves to two fabulous plants the other day, two Scilla that are already quite startling in their beauty. I love the colour. They are in a bed where Agapanthus will appear later in the season.
Scilla – Caribbean Jewels
Pop over to The Propagator for others in the SoS challenge. They are from all over the world with fascinating insights into other gardens.
Beetle, Clematis and A Poem
I found a little green beetle on my trousers as I was working in the garden this morning.
Green Shield Bug?
Our Clematis in the front garden is spectacular – this is only about half of it!
Clematis
Regular readers will have seen several of cummings’ poems on here, another today that somehow suits the Spring and the blue skies we have been having until this afternoon.
o by the by – ee cummingso by the by
has anybody seen
little you-i
who stood on a green
hill and threw
his wish at bluewith a swoop and a dart
out flew his wish
(it dived like a fish
but it climbed like a dream)
throbbing like a heart
singing like a flameblue took it my
far beyond far
and high beyond high
bluer took it your
but bluest took it our
away beyond wherewhat wonderful thing
is the end of a string
(murmers little you-i
as the hill becomes nil)
and will somebody tell
me why people let go
Chorus of the Slaves, Clematis and Hall Floor
This morning we heard Verdi’s Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves on the radio and some lovely memories came flooding back. The Summer before my lovely Dad went blind, we took him to Venice, a city which he loved and where he loved using his Italian. One of the trips we took was to Verona to the Opera Festival in the arena where we were all entranced by Verdi’s Nabucco. The Chorus of the Slaves was so well received that it was repeated, much to the disgust of the opera buffs and the delight of the rest of the audience who by then had their candles lit in the darkness, just as in this recording. I hope you can imagine the three of us sitting there just loving this. It was the best thing we ever did for Dad though of course, we did not know then that he would go blind the following February, and he a writer and reader and inveterate ‘looker-upper.’
Our Clematis Elizabeth is having a second flush, just two pretty blossoms.
Elizabeth, Clematis Montana
Daughter No3 wanted some photos of our tiled hall floor for the restoration project on their house and I saw again how lovely the tiles are and how lucky that we are to have them here.
Victorian tiled hall floor
‘Majik’ Table, Baby Leg Warmies and Clematis Buds
1 We’ve had very welcome help today moving the furniture out of the dining room prior to the lovely Mr S sanding the floorboards. (For those who know about the mini flood, we’ve decided against a carpet and are opting for beautiful floorboards!) The extending dining table has been taken apart and exposed this interesting little ivory stamp.
Majik mark and number
I looked it up and found this delightful advert for a table with similar action though the legs of ours are very different.
Advertisement for 1930s oak ‘Majik’ dining table with patent extending action, by Perkins Bros, Leicester
2 I finished the very little Leg Warmies just in time for them to be taken home by L. Thank you so much to Alana from NevernotKnitting for the pattern.
Baby leg warmies
3 When our daughters had left after a delightful 24 hours of enjoying their company, we had a walk around the garden and discovered buds on the Clematis, Montana Elizabeth. We have bitter winds forecast ( temperatures of around 0* but with the wind chill factored in feeling like -10*!) so we hope they will survive.
Clematis buds
Yesterday’s Birthday Dinner was lovely and this morning we did Birthday Breakfast and used our beautiful Tree of Life bread-warmer to keep the croissants warm.
