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Even on a grey and dull December's day, the garden looks beautiful. The grasses and dogwoods glow with autumnal or, rather, wintry colour and the seedheads provide texture.
We leave the old growth until next spring. It is so important for the wildlife. Birds and small mammals still find food from the seeds and berries. Insects overwinter in leaves and seedheads. The old growth also provides shelter for other small creatures over the winter.
Besides, if we cut down everything now, the garden would be bare, unsightly and boring for the next several months.
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Seedheads on the self-sown teasels by the pond.
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Made a grasses seedheads arrangement for indoors.
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I can offer no acceptable excuse for my prolonged absence. I bow my head in humility.
In the #stumpery in the #garden today, #Buddha is snug under the acer's #autumnal canopy.

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Bee in a Hollyhock having a really good time. Hard work or drug abuse?
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I love Hollyhocks! They are beautiful, tall, robust, unruly, bawdy and keep going all summer. Bees and other insects love them and behave as if they were shopping for recreational drugs.
This plant lives in an area in the garden called the Garden of Delights.
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From a week or so ago, Lily of the valley, Convallaria majalis, in the stumpery. They are very reliable flowering at the right time of the year, the beginning of May.
In Austria (and probably other German speaking countries) they are called Maiglöckchen, little May bells.
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Comfrey in the stumpery. Sourced from a drift of self-sown comfrey elsewhere in the garden.
The bees love it but they were camera shy. I overheard them talking: “Oh. it’s him again with this thing that goes click. Looks like a giant eye. Very suspicious. Better wait and come back when he’s gone”, they said.

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My #Mediterranean #sourdough #bread. I am experimenting with bread scoring.
This bread is inspired by the #Greek #Horiatiko - #Χωριάτικο #ψωμί - and also southern #Italian breads, such as the #Pane #pugliese.
There seems to be a geographic theme here, southern #Adriatic and northern #Ionian - and it is a beautiful part of the world.

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I know I have posted about #snowdrops, #Galanthus, before. I am so pleased with them. They keep increasing - through the season and year on year.
This group at the entrance to the #stumpery. I also have them in other borders and the #GrassMeadow.
As they flower so early, snowdrops do not rely on #pollinators but spread by bulb division. They are still visited by bees and other early insects on a warm day.

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#Candlesnuff #Fungus (I think), #Xylaria hypoxylon, also known as Stag's Horn Fungus, on a log in the #stumpery.
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Happy #Samhain, #Halloween, whatever it is that you may celebrate.
I made this photograph in the #stumpery in our #garden.

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Worked in the #stumpery, mainly to allow a little more light in. #Buddha says that he is happy - good enough for me.

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Using the nice weather to work in the garden. This is a view out of the #stumpery towards the bottom of the garden.
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A white self-sown #Digitalis flowers unassumingly in the #stumpery.
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Happy May Day, my friends! ✊
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The #hellebores in the #stumpery are just about to open their flowers. #impatient :)

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#Mysterious and #dark time of the year when, essentially, we think of our #dead.
This photograph from the #stumpery in our #garden for #Samhain #Halloween #DayOfTheDead #Allsouls

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#Salvia #involucrata #Hadspen at the entrance to the #stumpery . I normally grow from seed but this plant was bought last October, overwintered in the greenhouse and planted out this May.
Isn’t it #beautiful ?
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The light was beautiful this morning. All hazy, gentle and soft. The path in the middle on the right is the entrance to the #stumpery. Lots of new planting this year, which will only reach full height next year.

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Another #garden #ornament is this #gate in a hedge. I made it from a #pallet and it does not open. It only exists to look pretty.

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A #leafcutter #bee takes his/her piece of leaf, cut from a rose leaf in the garden, into a hollow log in the #stumpery . It is so rewarding to see the wildlife utilising my garden!
@HampshireKarin @Buglife

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