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Accent of the Day – Hosta

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Sunday Walk – Cavehill, Belfast

Sunday saw Stephen and my brother Phil join me for a hike up Cavehill overlooking Belfast. A lovely warm morning but a bit of a lung buster!

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Accent of the Day – Icelandic Poppy

A young plant but if it likes the pot, it should make a nice accent in future years.

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Photos in the Sun

Saturday saw Phil appear in my back garden with a few new trees to get photographed 😉

Stephen cam for a look and Josh appeared with the first load of his collection coming for some Holiday care.

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Accent of the day – Sisyrinchium

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The Other Bit of the Garden

I posted a few snaps of my display area a few weeks ago and some said how they were amazed that I could fit so much into a small space. Well, the reason for that is that I have another area down the back for everything else. Far too much stuff to be honest but a lot of it isn’t mine. That’s my excuse and I’m sticking too it. It’s getting a major overhaul this Winter as the benches at this end are done.

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Accent of the Day – Kusamono

A mixture of hosta, aqualegia, sisyrinchium and that yellow exploding seed pod one that I can’t remember the name of! Even a bit of mud rock in there too. I hope to create a lot more mixed planting for next year. Up until now I have tended to keep my accents to one variety per pot but I am loving the added interest in mixed plantings  or kusamono. At least I should have plenty to play with 😉

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Splitting Up

No, not my marriage!! Never happen, just my hostas and other accents. After chatting to Ian up at Bali Hai and finding out that it’s fine to split hostas at this time of year, I have made the most of my new arrivals.

Accent of the Day – Allium

Anybody know the name of this Allium?

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Mike’s Satsuki & Juniper

Waz Skeepin we me ole Mucker Mike tuther neet [Sorry, but Mike said I had to type the way he would actually say it, that’s wat he does 🙂 ]

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Great screen shot Mike lol, didn’t know I did that did you 😛

Enough of that, I was chatting to Mike on Skype the other night about his workshop weekend with Peter Warren and he was showing me some photos of his Root over Rock Satsuki which I rather like, As he’s such a decent bloke, he said I could share here. Also another little Satuki getting it’s first clear out and a Kishu Juniper as well.