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Winter

Volunteer force

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

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Posted on September 11, 2021 by jamie kronborg in Spring, Winter

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.

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Posted on August 30, 2021 by jamie kronborg in Winter

Violet reign

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

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Posted on August 28, 2021 by jamie kronborg in Winter

Deer bloom

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

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Posted on August 21, 2021 by jamie kronborg in Winter

Good sport

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

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Posted on August 8, 2021 by jamie kronborg in Winter

Winter blue

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

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Posted on August 7, 2021 by jamie kronborg in Winter

Cool wonder

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

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Posted on August 18, 2020 by jamie kronborg in Winter

Striking sport

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

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Posted on August 11, 2020 by jamie kronborg in Winter

Spilling the beans

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

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Posted on July 18, 2020 by jamie kronborg in Winter

Damask purple

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

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Posted on July 4, 2020 by jamie kronborg in Winter
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Cuttings

  • Canny Scot
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Digging

Anne Campbell on Shared branches
Bronwyn Hirons on Spring open gardens

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