Volunteer force

A springtime daily return drive on the highway and byways between Beechworth and Wangaratta yields a fine prospect.

Inverary, Tarrawingee

A weekend drawer rummage turned up small black-and-white proof photographs of my Scots-born gardener-grandmother and the garden she made.

The dowager duchess (of Grantham) would be pleased. Very pleased. This season her namesake reigns right across the garden.

American etymologist Douglas Harper says the word ‘hellebore’ is of uncertain origin. ‘Perhaps literally ‘plant eaten by fawns’.

Camellia do well in our hillside patch with its ancient mix of earth – what Beechworth vignerons call greywacke, mudstone and shale.

Chaenomeles speciosa ‘Nivalis’ lights a grey lockdown day. Thanks be to gardening…

Superb Helleborus x hybridus ‘Slate’ proved a fetching model in this morning’s frosty light.

This fine volunteer Hellebore in the garden’s south walk is a welcome light in darker days near the border wall.

After a recent journey to Moidart Rare Plants near Bowral, our friends’ dog came to stay.

Dried berries of Cratageus laevigata near our henhouse puts out its bright red fruit in summer for all manner of birds.

Posted on July 4, 2020 by jamie kronborg in Winter

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