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About Me
- Hugh Walter
- No Fixed Abode, Home Counties, United Kingdom
- I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.
Showing posts with label Gdn. - Shrubs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gdn. - Shrubs. Show all posts
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Before-and-After's
Pretty self-explanatory stuff, but I'm in the job market and it helps to show I can do what I say I can, otherwise you might find some Knight of the Realm lying to a Tribunal that I can't or something, which would surely upset Her Madge? Perish the thought...
Friday, April 16, 2010
Went for a walk....
Well given the glorious spring weather and the beautifully quiet skies today (thank you 'Mount Unpronounceable'), I went for a quick walk at lunchtime, camera in hand.
Loved this twisted log, looks like it's fossilized already!
Another of my favorite Polyanthus, this is a hybrid gold-laced one which had been planted outside a back gate to the woods.
Closer to home, our Magnolia is bursting into life now.
Loved this twisted log, looks like it's fossilized already!
Another of my favorite Polyanthus, this is a hybrid gold-laced one which had been planted outside a back gate to the woods.
Closer to home, our Magnolia is bursting into life now.Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Recent Snow
With reports of more snow tomorrow, I guess I'd better get these images up before they become dated, taken last week during the first cold snap...Global Warming...what global warming?
Lone tree lit by the setting sun.
The double Hornbeam likewise.
Ratty is still at it despite my best efforts to send him to a better place! I think the fresher the poison, the more he likes it!
Contrast!
Lone tree lit by the setting sun.
The double Hornbeam likewise.
Ratty is still at it despite my best efforts to send him to a better place! I think the fresher the poison, the more he likes it!
Contrast!Monday, January 26, 2009
F is for Frozen Landscape
These shots were taken round the garden during the recent cold snap, we woke up one morning to find that freezing fog in the night had turned the universe (or our particular corner of it) as white as if it had been sprayed.
The wonderful Cedar of Lebanon, the photograph doesn't do justice to the majesty of it all dressed in white, with the first tips of Crocus and Daffodil poking up under the canopy. We have a real problem with squirrels digging them up so I planted some new ones the other day round one end of the bench.
The Holly down the main drive, it had been given a halo of ice on every leaf. Pruning and cutting back in this sort of weather has to take a bit of a back-seat, as you can't damage or kill the most hardy of shrubs without meaning to, although we did take out 80% of the leaf and 50% of the wood from a Laurel the other day, and gave two others a bit of a kicking!
Winter blossom with a frosting of Ice, the Roses looked really lovely with each spine or thorn having its own icy overcoat.
The wonderful Cedar of Lebanon, the photograph doesn't do justice to the majesty of it all dressed in white, with the first tips of Crocus and Daffodil poking up under the canopy. We have a real problem with squirrels digging them up so I planted some new ones the other day round one end of the bench.
The Holly down the main drive, it had been given a halo of ice on every leaf. Pruning and cutting back in this sort of weather has to take a bit of a back-seat, as you can't damage or kill the most hardy of shrubs without meaning to, although we did take out 80% of the leaf and 50% of the wood from a Laurel the other day, and gave two others a bit of a kicking!
Winter blossom with a frosting of Ice, the Roses looked really lovely with each spine or thorn having its own icy overcoat.
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