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Six on Saturday – Replanting and Spring Bulbs

We’ve started the work on the Suffragette Garden that needs an overhaul. The blind Narcissi in the first photo are now out and the ground ready for planting.

Blind Narcissi

2. The ground is already for planting…..

Ready

3. …… and the Hebes are in, ‘Baby Marie’ which will grow to 40 cms and I hope, in time, they will make a little hedge. The have white flowers but the buds are tinged with purple so will be perfect for this garden.

Baby Marie

4. I was given these bulbs for Christmas a few years ago but nothing happened and I had forgotten all about them. This year, here they are in the little wall garden and I don’t know what they are called. Help, anyone?

Identity needed

5. The Narcissi are brightening up a dark corner. I’m hoping Storm Freya, which is on its way won’t beat them down.

More Narcissi

6. Now for something completely different! It is St Piran’s Day here in Cornwall and our little town celebrates with a parade and hundreds of daffodils – in every shop window, in lapels, as decoration. It’s great fun!

Our Miner, all decorated

In the Butter Market

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 2, 2019 in Celebration, community, environment, garden, nature, Photography, Postaday 2019, Redruth

Tags: Baby Marie, Hebe, narcissi, St Piran's Day

Spring Flowers and a Dog in the Churchyard

07 Mar

Walking around St Euny Churchyard again this afternoon, there were more and more signs of Spring.

Camellia

A furry dog

Narcissi

Primroses

Catkins

Daffodils

Pansy, Narcissi and Winter Clouds

02 Feb

Walking around the garden this afternoon, I was delighted to see so many flowers ready to open – Crocuses, little Daffodils, Grape Hyacinths. There are Pansies and a few Narcissi blooming already but just the odd one here and there, no swathes! Sadly the Snowdrops mostly came and went while we were away. The evening clouds were delicate and peachy despite moving through the sky at an alarming rate as the strong winds continue.

Pansy

Narcissi

Peachy clouds

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on February 2, 2016 in Beauty, garden, nature, Photography, Postaday 2016, Uncategorized

Tags: clouds, narcissi, Pansies

Dendrites, Narcissi and The Weird People

28 Apr

Our patio is getting its annual clean with pressure washing. I’m like a big kid playing with the water. I love it every Spring when the Dendritic patterns are revealed again. Cornwall is very damp and a green film grows over the stones over the winter and it’s like magic when there they are again, so delicate and pretty! I used to think they were fossilised ferns but no…… “Dendrite Limestone (sometimes called picture stone or painted stone) is an amazing original work of art by Mother Nature. The patterns occur naturally due to the presence of iron and manganese oxide Dendrites. Dendrites are the branch-like formations of manganese oxide crystallising within the limestone.”

Fern like patterns

More Fern like patterns

2 The lovely Mr S brought me some beautiful flowers to help chase away the virus.

Narcissi

3 This delightful blackboard came my way today. Thanks, Rachel – spot on!

Blessed are the weird people – Jacob Nordby

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on April 28, 2015 in Beauty, nature, photography, Postaday 2015

Tags: Dendrite Limestone, iron and manganese oxide Dendrites, Jacob Nordby, narcissi

Today in our Garden

12 Apr

I love the colour in our Spring garden!

Click on any photo for the bigger picture.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on April 12, 2015 in Beauty, environment, flowers, garden, photography, Postaday 2015

Tags: Clematis Armandii, Fritillaria Meleagris, Grape Hyacinth, narcissi, primroses, Tulips

Beautiful Eggs, Forget-me-nots and Amber Bowl

25 Apr

1 Today’s eggs are so beautiful – feathers and straw included!

Today’s beautiful organic and free range eggs

2 The Forget-me-nots are in flower providing a haze of blue in the back garden.

Forget-me-nots

3 I like to put Narcissi in Mum’s vase at this time of year as Mum always did. This amber coloured glass bowl with its special weighted inner with holes to separate the flowers was one of their Wedding presents in 1939!

Narcissi in Mum’s vase

Looking down into the bowl and the flower holder

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on April 25, 2013 in family history, flowers, Food, nature, photography, Postaday2013

Tags: 1939, forget-me-nots, free range eggs, narcissi, organic eggs

Reflection, Skeletons and More Daffodils

17 Apr

1 This delightful lithograph hangs in the kitchen and today I caught the reflection of some of the garden in it.

Afternoon Break by J Whiteford

Garden refected in the glass of the lithograph

2 I found these leaf skeletons just outside the front door this afternoon.

Very delicate skeleton leaves

3 We are very lucky in that we have a field behind our garden and a rogue group of daffodils has just appeared. fortunately the rabbits don’t seem interested in eating them!

Narcissi in the back field

Zoomed in on the Narcissi

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on April 17, 2013 in environment, flowers, lithograph, nature, photography, Postaday2013, Uncategorized

Tags: Afternoon Break by J Whiteford, leaf skeletons, narcissi

Narcissi, Daisies and A Toad

16 Apr

1 More Narcissi are flowering. I wish I could remember the names of the varieties. If you recognise them, please tell me.

Another beautiful Narcissus

The palest of daffodils

2 It’s been a beautifully sunny and warm day and the lawn is suddenly covered in Daisies.

Daisies in the lawn

3 I went across the road tonight for an hour or two with a few friends and coming home we saw this toad by the wall. I do hope he stays safe and doesn’t go out onto the road. You’ll have to look closely. I didn’t use the flash, just the guide light but you can still see his beautiful markings.