Plantings

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 00:08:44 GMT

The weather is warming up! I've planted three Agapanthus Northern Star and three nerine bulbs in a strange triangle of soil that I suspect exists because the previous owner of this house didn't have quite enough concrete to cover it.

It's a very sunny exposed spot that also gets a lot of wind, since it's only about 20 feet from the water, so rather than plant it all up with something that might not be able to handle the location, I'm doing a test plant. I can always add more bulbs if they seem to like it there.

The young rowan trees that I'm training along the fence look like they might actually manage more than a couple of flowers this year, though they may still be too young to actually have berries.

None of the three citrus trees in pots seem terribly happy. The lemon had one flower: the kumquat and orange, none at all. I think maybe I should have fed them more last year. They have now moved off their special citrus winter food onto summer food and I'm going to start watering them more generously too.

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Scones & Kumquats

Mon, 10 Apr 2023 14:33:16 GMT

We forgot to buy bread for the Easter weekend, so instead, yesterday, I made some cheese and bacon scones. Mine had some home-grown chives in too. (Pp does not like chives, probably fearing they might contain vitamins...)

Last week, Lidl was selling Kumquat bushes with actual kumquats on them, so Pp bought me one. Today I went and bought a pot for it, so it can join the lemon bush and the blood orange.

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bunn

Plantings

Scones & Kumquats