Some images from the garden this spring.
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May 182011
May 032011
We’ve been planting triffids!
Not really, this is one of two rows of asparagus crowns planted yesterday, type Verte ‘Lima’.
Now all they need is careful weeding and mulching, and we need lots and lots of patience….hopefully we’ll be eating delicious tender asparagus in a couple of years time.
Apr 292011
After the quiet hibernation of winter, suddenly comes the madness of spring.
I apologize for the lack of posts recently but here are a few things that have been occupying us lately:
weeding, sowing, planting, propagating, mowing, strimming, cleaning,  decorating, mending, rearranging, celebrating.
We’ve got one more push on the weeding and seeding front then perhaps life will return to a normal pace again.
Apr 232010
Another survivor of the winter was this rhubarb, planted last spring.
The French don’t seem to be as keen on Rhubarb as the Brits - the varieties available in garden centres seem pretty limited. So we brought back 6 plants from the UK, dug up from a garden in Cumbria (thank’s Mum!) and transplanted here in the Auvergne.
Apr 192010
After an extended stay in the UK this winter it was a big relief to get back to the house and garden to find it in pretty good shape. Very little damage really, despite storms, ice and snow, escaped cows and very busy moles …. the garlic we planted in autumn has survived all of these dramas and looks green and healthy.
Apr 032010
Ok, I confess, these pictures were taken in the UK.
Spring springs a little later in the Auvergne….
All the same, I’m in my wellies and raring to go.
Feb 202010
Life after the big freeze
Signs of life after the big freeze.
William Wordsworth, the Two-Part Ballad: “I began / My story early, feeling, as I fear, / The weakness of a human love for days / Disowned by memory, ere the birth of spring / Planting my snowdrops among winter snows”
Feb 072010
Is it spring yet? It’s time to order seeds anyway.
I’m trying out The Real Seed Company http://www.realseeds.co.uk/
