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     They look similar - I'll look at the label if it's not raining tomorrow 

Slugs - large, fat, pale white ones  everywhere ........

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Hellinium and Rudbeckia in different colours.  They may/not last until the Spring  . I've de-headed them this afternoon in warm ☀️

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Two pepper plants moved, two smaller berry shrubs put into their place: moved two other shrubs to give them more sunshine and I have another shrub that isn't in the 'right' place.  Leaves beginning to fall ...........

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Yesterday I found some winter flowering cyclamen growing stoically under hellebores leaves so those were cut back to allow light into the corms and so that I could see the flowers.  Need to buy more cyclamen for the empty areas in the borders. 

Slugs - Big Fat White 1s 

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Ground is muddy.  I planted 8 small winter flowering cyclamen plants today 
The hop plant has raced away into the trees on the road side, probably 20feet plus high 

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Crocii.  Peeping through already    perhaps the snow and cold will halt them ?  Pink roses in bud/flower.  Spindle has looked lovely with odd orange coloured fruits against autumnal leaves.   .  The peppercorn shrub with long very sharp thorns is full of peppers ......... 

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This morning I noticed that the Winter flowering prunus has opened pink buds  I don't think that it was open on Monday 

Crocii are poking through, should I cover them with soil?

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Mud everywhere!  Hellebores in flower, they will come out in drifts between now and March  . I need to prune back the small pink roses.  Pink prunus seems to be surviving the gusts! 

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Winter flowering prunus looking pretty in pink despite recent gales
Mahonia seems to grow a foot every week  with bright yellow flowers
Found a yellow polyanth this morning 

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I reduced our mahonia back a few weeks ago. Still flowering now. Seems you can cut them back at any time.

Love in a Mist seeds that I dispersed from seed heads ready for next year have already germinated.

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Tnx for that info.  It's a bit of a thug!

Seeds often germinate then go into hibernation until the warmer weather. 

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Hellebores - flowering already with more buds appearing
Snowdrops and crocii peeping through
Mahonia - a thug with sharp thorns on the leaves, in the wrong place but looks lovely and growing fast
Holly still has berries on the side which faces the dawn   


Not as many birds around 

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Snowdrops 
Yellow small plants - name escapes me  .  [aconites]
Winter flowering honeysuckle - small flowers 
Flowers on the Winter prunus however, knocked back badly by last week's snow 

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Another few hours yesterday, DH and I both ache  .  Too dreary 2day even to consider getting wrapped up warmly enough to pull weeds.   

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A thug of a clematis: I keep it because it flowers August/September - small lilac flowers - to attract late flying insects.  It sprawls.  So I've been out there chopping hard back and will get Himself to cut out the centre of the plant and back to the root in other places.  Not cold.  Ideal 'doing weather' but can't be bothered to change into my very filthy gardening jeans 

I can now see aconites and snowdrops growing through now that the trailing clematis has been chopped back. 

Cuppa to hand B4 we Get On