Elemental circle – thegreenerdream

May flowers.

June 8, 2019mariamayfleming

May brought us a couple of weeks with next to no rain and then a ten day downpour. We have been busy in the garden, planting our vegetables and watering for the first couple of weeks and then tackling a few of our structures in need of updates. We will write more about them in the next couple of weeks.

In our conservatory we have two different passionfruit plants and this year our purple petal variety flowered for the first time along with the more common light green one. We have lots of small fruits forming already and maybe the season will be long and warm enough to actually get some tasty, ripe fruits later in the year.

April.

May 8, 2019May 8, 2019mariamayfleming

We are just over a week into the beautiful, bountiful month of May and it is high time to sum up the last month on the land.

In the Eye of the Beholder.

April 2, 2019May 8, 2019mariamayfleming

We believe it is high time to rethink what beauty in a garden is. The more we tidy and neaten things up, the less biodiversity there is. We are great admires of Mary Reynolds, whom we wrote about in this post a few years back.

February full of promise.

March 12, 2019mariamayfleming

A third of March is already gone and it is high time we sum up the last month on the land. February was very mild and lots of plants are putting on substantial growth already. Our kale plants from last year are doing great and we are harvesting small fresh leaves for stir-fries and smoothies on a regular basis.

Off to a good start.

February 6, 2019mariamayfleming

The first part of January was unseasonably mild and we were quite worried as many buds on trees and shrubs started to swell and lots of flowers burst open much too early in the season.

Pulmonaria.

Floral notes in December.

January 2, 2019mariamayfleming

When I moved from Sweden to Ireland in 2004 I was most struck by the lack of winter. Coming from a place of snow, ice and soil sometimes frozen solid for months on end, I was amazed when the last leaves falling off the trees and the last flowers of the year were met by hellebores, snowdrops and daffodils without so much as a snowflake to separate them. Read more →

A touch of frost.

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November is often thought of as a month when not much is happening in a garden. We can’t agree with that. There are still lots of vegetables to harvest, beds to cover and mulch, areas to clear of unwanted plants and a few cherished newcomers that will need planting.

All of the above is probably the reason why we are a bit behind on posting here on the blog. It is high time for our summary of last month in the garden.