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25 May 2020
23/04/2020 / Kay Atherton / Spring Favourite
Brocade (Possibly Brocade and rare Pink Brocade ?)
No Show !
The blooms in Kay Atherton’s fine vase full of tall Narcissi seem a tribute to her cultural preparations for the 2020 Spring Show we couldn’t have.
Maybe she has arranged the toy penguin there as substitutes for people who weren’t allowed to visit.
25/05/2020/ Alan Hamilton / from Cowslips to Geum
A clump of white flowered Bluebells and a lovely yellow flowered Geum which I bought in Co Clare.
This year the fruit trees have a lot more flowers than normal. On the left, growing in a beech hedge and very upright, is Crab apple ‘Laura’. I bought it in 2000 and it has small hard purple fruit which can be used for apple jelly. On the right is Crab apple ‘John Downie’. It has very small fruit that are tasty.
A group of cowslips which I grew from seed over 2 yrs. They are in small pots and I will transfer them to a suitable spot later this year. I’ll gather some seed at end May and place on top of well drained poor soil.
We had a few here and there at The Cross and as a result we got a spectacular browny-
