Automatic Gardening and Real Gluten Free Food. My quest to garden year-round without adding new plants. My second quest is to find GF recipes. I was surprised to see two Azalea buds next to each other that were two different colors. Of course I thought another bush had just sent out a really long branch that got mixed in. But, no both buds were from the same bush and on the same branch. A Pile in the Grass. One of my most viewed posts is Azaleas.

Peppers on the Roof! This is a Canadian heirloom Albino pepper plant, which interestingly enough grows not only albino peppers but also other peppers in a variety of different colours and shapes. How to grow organic vegetables.

Observations of the British countryside. Follow our blog via email. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 5,368 other followers. Catkins are already out in the hedgerows. Hazel and alder, waving gently in the breeze, like fat little fingers. Just proving that the year marches on as it slips gently into the next, and that spring is just around the corner.

We are in the dog days of December and until recently the weather has been very mild. Now each morning we wake to a hard frost covering every surface with a fuzzy coat and freezing the water in the bird bath to a solid lump. The geraniums are tucked up safe in their frost proof shelter but the winter violas have taken a hit. Sad looking violas weighed down by the frost.