It’s grown a bit since then! 😄

Ours is really showing some lovely colours on one stem. An amazing plant to grow 💛🧡❤️🌱

Gnaphalium uliginosum, Marsh cudweed growing in the walled garden pond at work this week.
The pond was very overgrown with fallen trees until 3 years ago and it’s now starting to throw up some interesting plants (interesting to me anyway)
#wildflowerhour

#wildflowerhour
Impatiens capensis spotted growing in a woodland ditch at work this week

We have a book that we put out on the day for visitors to browse. It shows a few pictures of the garden from the early days of its creation.
1st pic was in 2009 when we first got the keys to the house. 😳
2nd pic was probably taken a couple of years later. 🤗
3rd pic was taken Saturday morning.
🌴😎🌴

Purchased Helwingia chinensis at the beginning of this month but I’ve been growing Helwingia japonica ‘broad leaf form’ for years now and is such a lovely and unusual plant.

It immediately reminded me of this for some reason 😆😂

Well this is a new one for me!
I’ve never seen or had a dahlia shoot from the middle of tuber before! 😳
I even poked my fingers underneath to see if it was rotted or hollow and something was growing up through it but No, it’s definitely coming from the tuber 🤷‍♂️ 🌱

It’s growing close to a clump of Galanthus elwesii (I think) that is also not found anywhere else on the farm so could quite easily be a cross.
Most of the snowdrops on the farm look like these clumps.

Are snowdrop flowers variable in size depending on where they are growing? I’ve spotted this little clump in a part of the garden at work and it looks different to the majority on the other snowdrops here.🌱 🤔

What a morning!! 😍

A beautiful sunrise on my way in to Medley Manor Farm, Oxford this morning.
The fields are flooded but it makes the view even more spectacular.
Lots of wildfowl enjoying the water too.

Thank goodness that we aren’t forecast to get any more heavy rain this week.
My view to the left, The (waterlogged) Medley Walled Garden where I work.
My view to the right, The burgeoning River Thames by Port Meadow, Oxford.

With all the flooding at work again, it brings out some of the wildlife from around the farm. These Muntjac are usually seen near the ancient woodland but they have had to take more drastic action now that the woods are flooded.
Filmed this sat in my van whilst having dinner. 🤗

Spent the day digging out the last of the plants that I want to over winter in our outhouse. There may be more to cram in there if the weather gets REALLY cold 🥺🤪
Still one or two left to go but I’ve run out of compost 🌱

Always love the contrasting colours between our garden and our neighbours garden at this time of year 🤗