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Our Prime Minister dresses in clothes costing £16,200 and wears glasses costing £2,485 given to him by Lord Waheed Alli.
@Keir_Starmer
's salary is £166,786 and someone else buys him his clothes yet he thinks pensioners shouldn't get £200 to help keep warm this winter
It's so difficult to capture the dusky darkness of dahlia 'Black Narcissus'. This is my first dahlia flower of the year.
#dahlialove
#gardening
#Flowers
Good morning gardening Tweeps. It's been raining here for days so here are some pics of auriculas currently flowering in the greenhouse. Seems spring is coming before the year has even ended. 😁
Good morning gardening Tweeps. It's peak Hellebore time in my northern garden. All these (and more) are all plants that have self seeded over the years from two that we originally bought.
Good morning gardening Tweeps. The first flowers opened yesterday on our Magnolia wilsoni tree. It has hundreds of buds so hoping for its best display ever.
This is how we do borders in our garden - no bare soil and all perennials. This was planted about 20 years ago. Gets all the old growth removed in late winter to allow the spring bulbs to show. A few weeds pulled out and that's it. Things left to self sow.
Good morning gardening Tweeps. I think it's time we changed thr common name of bleeding hearts to something that better reflects the beauty of the plant. Any suggestions.
Good morning gardening tweeps. This astrantia is a self-sown cross from a couple of plants bought year's ago and long since gone, but it's just as beautiful as any named variety.
Good morning gardening Tweeps. What says late-June better than peonies and roses flowering together?
Photo taken on Saturday as we have a damp (but welcome) start to to the week hete.
Good morning gardening Tweeps. My Eucomis 'Sparkling Burgandy' is finally flowering. Had no flowers last year so cosseted in the greenhouse this year.
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#flowers
I always forget we have this lovely Rhododendron 'Odee Wright' until it flowers each year. Must give it some TLC so that it's not hidden away.
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Good morning gardening Tweeps. Cold sunny day ahead. I love to see the winter flowering heathers. The flowers will be with us for the next four months now.
Good morning gardening Tweeps. My bright
#SixOnSaturday
includes osteospermum, dahlia, ginger, waterlily, rose and day lily.
Have a good gardening weekend.
A small flowering tree that you don't see very often is Colutea persica with its coppery orange flowers. This one was grown from seed by my OH about 25 years ago and flowers reliably every year. Its head gets pruned back hard each spring.
Good morning gardening Tweeps. In flower in my garden this week for my
#SixOnSaturday
are Camellia, Hellebores, Dwarf Irises and Rhododendron. Enjoy your weekend in the garden.
Good morning gardening Tweeps. This is one of the many self-sown hellebores in my garden. Started off with a dark red plant and a white plant years ago and now have all sorts.
Today is the 250th anniversary of the birth of William Wordsworth, so to celebrate here are all the different daffodils in flower in my garden today. Unfortunately, don't have 250.
Good morning gardening Tweeps. My
#SixOnSaturday
is a bright mix of dahlias, osteospernum and Crocosmia.
Hoping you enjoy this pleasantly warm gardening weekend.
Good morning gardening Tweeps. It has to be the roses this week for my
#SixOnSaturday
with Dr W van Fleet, James Galway, English Garden, Generous Gardener, Teasing Georgia and Constance Spry.
Good morning gardening Tweeps. These African Violets are currently flowering in my terrarium. I also have white and pink ones which always flower at a different time.
Good morning gardening Tweeps. We were given some forget-me-nots some years ago by a neighbour sadly no longer with us. They remind me of him every spring
Good morning gardening Tweeps. It's time for my annual tweet of the beautiful little white flower of Sanguinaria canadensis Flore Pleno which has opened on the last couple of days and always seems so perfect.
Good morning gardening Tweeps. After yesterday's bright flower tweet, here's something a little more gentle with Hyrangea villiso currently in flower in my garden
Good morning gardening Tweeps. Erythronium season is revving up here so expect lots of them in the coming days. This is Erythronium revolutum Johnsonii
Six flowers in my garden this week for my
#SixOnSaturday
. A peony originally in my grandparents' garden, rhododendron, primula pulverulenta, primula x, foxglove and Aquilegia. The primulas, foxglove and Aquilegia all self seed around the garden.
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For some inexplicable reason, I decided to tune in to
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this afternoon for the first time since the era of Johnners and Arlot. And I heard great commentary on the best cricket since Botham and Willis in 1981. How fantastic was that! I'll be back. Well done
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