amelanchier – GWENNIESGARDENWORLD

April 11, 2023April 11, 2023

IT IS DEFINITELY SPRING NOW.

We had to wait rather long for Spring this year, the weather went up and down like a yoyo. It was wet and cold with a better day once in a while.

As I am not mobile at the moment I can only take pictures from the patio at the moment.

This was my june berry (amelanchier) last week, just the buds were out.

This is the same june berry ( amelanchier) today

Dwarf rhododendron Moerheim

Pieris Japonica

Skimmia japinica Kew green.

For people who have only a tiny garden or balcony, a skimmia is the ideal small bush, the flowers appear in Autumn and it starts flowering early in the year and it attracks lots of bee’s, it is wintergreen and winterhardy up to -10 C°. There are several different colours of flowers. But you need a male and a female plant to get flowers.

Close up of a skimmia flower.

Take care and enjoy your Spring !

March 8, 2023

SNOWWWW

When we woke up this morning the garden looked completely white, snow white. We don’t get snow often and usually it doesn’t stay for long as the ground is not froozen. A few hours after I took a few pictures of my garden the snow was gone. But my garden looked very pretty in white.

A snow covered viburnum Bodnantense.

June berry orAmelanchier

Daffodils, TETE-A-TETE

Coconut for the birds.

Take care !

March 11, 2022

SORRY

Sorry for being absent a lot in the past month’s. Winter was grey , wet and soft and it was almost impossible to take nice pictures. In fact we had no real Winter, no snow, no ice, just a few light night frosts. March has been like real Spring although it is still Winter. The sky is bright blue, the sun shines and we enjoy the sun a lot. Nature starts to wake up and the first Spring flowers are in bloom. I just hope we don’t get heave frost in April or May, everything is possible and this will do a lot of damage.

**TINY FLOWERS OF NARCISSUS TETE A TETE**

Always on of the first in bloom and always reliable, you plant the bulbs in the soil and they come up year after year. So easy !

Another one you can always rely on, the amalanchier tree, also called juneberry, I don’t know why they call it juneberry as it always flowers at the end of march ! In a few weeks time it will be covered in small white flowers and it will be buzzing with bees. Look at that blue sky we have at the moment . So much better than grey.

Have a great weekend !

September 19, 2021

IT’S DEFINITELY AUTUMN

Today is September 19th and we can feel, see and smell Autumn is here. Summer was cool and wet with here and there a few hot days. I have been taking pictures this month and you can see how nature is changing. Despite all the rain we had it is still dry but we live on sandy soil and it doesn’t keep water for long.

**WHEN THIS SEDUM IS IN BLOOM SUMMER IS AS GOOD AS OVER**

**DRY GRASSES IN FRONT OF A MARSH AND A LITTLE SPIDER**

**PART OF A DEAD PINE THREE** **WITH PINE CONES**

I hope you”ll all have a great Autumn. Thanks for visiting and keep safe.

March 27, 2020March 27, 2020

TODAY IN THE GARDEN

We have such nice weather at the moment, very sunny, bright blue sky, not too cold….what more do you want. I try to enjoy it as much as I can cos colder weather is on its way.

We have a very stubborn tree, our Amelanchier (juneberry) starts blooming every year on April 1st. But as we have had a lot of sun and soft weather we were sure it would bloom earlier this year. Just one little branch has been in bloom for about a week now and the rest is still in bud.

JUST 2 SMALL FLOWER STALKS.

THE REST OF THE TREE LOOKS LIKE THIS; ALL FLOWERS STILL IN BUDD

MY SKIMMIA KEW GREEN IS BUZZING WITH BEE’S NOW THAT THE FLOWERS ARE OPEN

OUR WATERHEN (coot) STILL HASN’T FOUND A MATE YET, BUT SHE IS FEELING VERY MUCH AT HOME IN OUR GARDEN. LOOK AT HER BEAUTIFULL BEAK.

I am still very sad about my little dog who died suddenly last week, I miss her a lot.

Have a great weekend all ! Stay safe !!

November 19, 2019

LAST LEAFS

When I was in my garden last week I noticed this cute little twig of my amelanchier tree, the tree was completely bare except for this little twig, the sun was shining and it caught my eye as it looked so pretty.

Have a great day !

August 2, 2019

WHAT SEASON ARE WE IN ??

It is the beginning of August and for us it is the middle of Summer but the heath and drought have ruined a lot of plants so now it looks like Autumn.

It is the second year in a row, I think we should start looking for plants that tolerate more heath and more drought.

I took this picture 2 days ago and now this tree is almost bare, all the yellow leafs have gone with the wind.

My gernaniums look all death, luckily I know they’ll come back when we have had a lot of rain and lower temperatures.

Even the hen’s and chicks are burned !!!! I have put most of my plants in pots in the shade but as we may not use the waterhose cos of the drought, I have to water them by hand, a huge job.

Have a great weekend all !

April 3, 2019April 3, 2019