In a vase on Monday – First tulips!!

Monday is when I join Cathy at Rambling in the Garden for the now compulsive IAVOM meme, where we try to find material from our own gardens to enjoy indoors.

The Greenhouse and the cut flower beds

Time for an update on what’s happening in the greenhouse.

In a Vase on Monday – a little summer colour

Monday brings the challenge of finding something from our own gardens to put in a vase to share with Cathy at Rambling in the Garden.

Garden Bloggers’ Foliage Day

Welcome to Garden Bloggers’ Foliage Day where I encourage you to look at the foliage in your garden and give it the appreciation it deserves.

In a Vase on Monday – the same but different

Finding material from the garden to join Cathy at Rambling in the Garden for her weekly challenge is becoming harder each week.  But I did find something  to add a little interest to the evergreen foliage of two weeks ago.

Silent Sunday – Lake Bolsena

Lake Bolsena Saturday 14th January

By the lake

Lake Bolsena Saturday 14th January

Lake Bolsena Saturday 14th January

Afternoon light in winter

For the past few days the light in the afternoon has been different from the rest of the day and different from other times of year.  As I write on Friday afternoon at 5 pm the wind is blowing a gale and hail is hitting the west and north-west facing windows; it is very nearly dark now.  On Wednesday I managed to brave the cold to take a few photographs.

In a vase on Monday – A little touch of spring

My title for today’s ‘In a vase on Monday’, host by Cathy at Rambling in the Garden, is of course not a statement about the weather out in the garden where all remains very cold and wintry! 

It snowed!

Today had been forecast to be a very cold day with gale force winds from the north and temperatures not rising above zero centigrade for the whole 24 hours with a low of minus 8°C.  Much colder than it has been for several years.

A step back

When I returned home after our time in England I was surprised to discover just how hardy all the Anemone coronaria are; there had been sub zero temperatures almost every night were away (which has continued all the past week too with an incredible minus 8°C forecast for Saturday).  I took these images a week ago 28th December 2016 but didn’t feel up to writing a post, but I thought it would be nice to use them today.