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  • Go, Go, Amaryllis

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    Last year — around this time — I bought an Amaryllis “Apple Blossom” (I know that they should really be called Hippeastrum). I wanted one after seeing one in flower at the …

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  • Canariensis Moved Inside

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    The Phoenix Canariensis (Canary Island Date Palm, or just CIDP) has now been brought inside for the Winter. Its in the lounge in front of the patio doors as we …

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  • Unwelcome Visitors

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    There are a lot of visitors to my garden, birds, cats, bees, caterpillars, butterflies, even the odd frog. They’re all welcome, of course, the buzzing of bees busy among the …

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  • Re-potted the Palm

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    A couple of weeks ago, when the remnants of hurricane Katia came back across the Atlantic and ran over the top of Scotland, here in the south we experienced blustery …

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