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Pansy Universal F1 Mixed
84 plugs - £9.99
120 mini-plugs + 30 FREE -
£15.99

Clematis Large Flowered Collection
5 young plants £9.99 10 young plants - £17.99

Hydrangea paniculata Vanilla Fraise
£9.99 or 3 for £17.99

Black Bamboo
Phyllostachys nigra
restrained in habit
10L pot was £44.99 - now £34.99

Perennial Bumper Pack
36 plants - £19.99

Flower Seed

Vegetable Seed
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Plant Pictures
- Winter
I change the pictures and caption at the top
of the home page every month - they're mostly taken in my garden or near where I live.
Here's an archive of those pictures.
They're all
taken by myself with digital cameras - various types.
Plants
pictures to buy

Winter - Teasel -
Dipsacus sylvestris - seed heads
against a winter sunset. St.Ives (Cambridgeshire) church spire can be just made out at
the bottom right. Many plants produce seed heads that if left, can add
interest and structure to the garden in winter, they look particularly
good with frost on them.
Teasel to buy |

Winter -
Holly leaves - Ilex aquifolium
This is a male plant that is now up to about 3.5m and looking good too
thanks to my careful pruning to get a large elegant conical shape. The
frustrating thing is that my nearby female plants keep getting "rabbited",
chicken wire hopefully means that they will shortly (in years!) be equally
impressive, so future pics will have nice red berries in them too.
Ilex to buy |
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Winter -
Great
Paxton Church Yard, Cambridgeshire - Where I live now. Also shows
English
Yews in their natural setting (an old church yard!). These are about 20 feet tall and
round and have been topiaried forever, don't know how old they are. |

Winter - Colne
Church, Cambridgeshire - Where I used to live, the closest to Christmas
Card conditions we got that year. |

Winter -
Frost
A gentle air movement starts off ice crystal growth and then it
carries on in that direction. "God is in the detail." |

Winter -
Trees clad in
winter white
I love frosty trees, every tiny branch and twig is amplified by an
outline of white. The closer you get, the more you appreciate the fractal
nature of the outline. I never understand how the white of the frost always
seems brighter than the sky even though you know that it really isn't. |

Winter -
A world of white
An ethereal world made so by the application of water vapour in the
air and a few degrees change in temperature, isn't it great that the
world can change so fundamentally so easily? |

Winter - Returning to the soil
- The remains of an old
tree stump covered in tiny fungal fruiting bodies. The main body
of the fungus is under the soil rotting the wood down, the mushrooms
only appear to spread the spores of the fungus. It's all part of
natures diversity, but if you want to avoid this, you need to remove
as much wood as possible - including major roots - when you chop
down and remove old trees.
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