The sun beats down, hot, intense and over-powering! Flowers are “popping” here, there and everywhere all over our little patch – each passing hour seems to bring new blooms bursting open, announcing their arrival. Summer has arrived…the temperature in Lancashire has hit nearly 30 degrees these last few days, the change in a matter ofContinueContinue reading “June Days”
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An ode to the tulip…
Not so much a blog post but, as the title suggests, an ode to all the glories of the kings and queens of Spring, the tulip! This Spring at Ginger House Garden has been all about the tulip, more than any other flower they have brought colour and joy to the patch. We picked ourContinueContinue reading “An ode to the tulip…”
Spring In The Garden
There is small satisfaction and delight as the garden begins to reveal itself after its Winter slumber. Small pockets of colour and life ‘spring’ up, bringing cheer and joy, whether it may be a clump of muscari, a pot of hyacinths rich with their heady scent, or the calming serenity of hellebores in all theirContinueContinue reading “Spring In The Garden”
New Shoots
There is something rather joyful about the arrival of Spring, like the whole earth is reawakening after a long sleep. For me nothing beats seeing a swathe of snowdrops in a woodland, a cheery daffodil greeting you like the morning sun or seeing a new-born lamb galloping about in the field. There is a senseContinueContinue reading “New Shoots”
New Year, New Possibilities
There is a lull in the air, a period of limbo – the joy and merriment of the Christmas season has passed yet the many potentials of Spring seem some way off in the distance. It is at this point, with the garden so baron and lonely looking, that you wonder how you will everContinueContinue reading “New Year, New Possibilities”
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