Everyone to the shelters!
Yesterday the weather was quite unpredictable and a small hail shower had blanketed Papi Jo’s garden. This morning a mini tornado ravaged the garden. Fucking climate change…
Category: Garden News
March-April hail shower
Today a superb weather to end the month of March in beauty. At the end of the afternoon, the sky was all grey, then all blue, followed by a sudden and brief hail shower then the return of the all blue sky.
Some flowers at the end of March
February 2022 flowering
A few wintering-flowering plants in the garden today…
Birds in residence
News of the “resident birds” in papi Jo’s garden… Pics of the day.
New Year’s Day Flower Count
Choisya ternataDaphne x transatlantica ‘Eternal Fragrance’Diosma hirsuta ‘Pink Fountain’Erica carneaErica x darleyensis ‘Silberschmelze’Erigeron glaucusErigeron karvinskianusHelleborus ‘Glenda’s Gloss’Heuchera x ‘Cherry Cola’Nandina domestica ‘Brightlight’Narcissus ‘Paperwhite Ziva’Parahebe ‘Avalanche’Pieris japonica ‘Cupido’Rosa ‘Noason’ ‘Celina’Rosa ‘Pierre de Ronsard’Rosa ‘Sourire d’orchidée’Salvia ‘Amistad’Sarcococca confusaSkimmia Japonica ‘Rubella’Solanum jasminoides ‘Alba’Spiraea japonica sp.Veronica spicata ‘Rosea’Viburnum tinus ‘Eve Price’Vinca major
My 3 “Christmas roses”
Dressed for the winter
Winter is fast approaching, and it’s time to think about protecting the most fragile plants in the garden. Last winter, we had two periods of frost that did not suit some of the ferns in the fern wall. All these ferns are hardy, but after talking to the nurserywoman at…
Autumn colours
Autumn colors in papi Jo’s garden…
Nezara et Aglais in papi Jo’s garden
Today my Persicaria virginiana (Virginia knotweed) was invaded by juvenile specimens of one of my favourite bugs, the Nezara viridula. The deep pink of the flowers are a perfect match for the pink marks that surround the bug’s shield! And my recently planted Astrantia major ‘Shaggy’ had attracted a couple…