Cyclamen 🌿💗🌿

 

Last month I decided to take up this very old and sad looking cyclamen and re-pot it , but as you can see the corm turned out to be a lot bigger than I had thought it was and it needed a much bigger pot . 

This one was broken and waiting to be taken to the tip , but I thought it might do until I could get a nice new one ...and now I was half way through ..I decided to carry on and get the job done as best I could .

I left a good part of the corm above the earth as it was in the previous pot ...I quite like the bright green moss .

I scrounged some horticultural grit from around other plants in the greenhouse . I just can not find horticultural grit at a price that I can afford !

                                   So that would have to do .

I then pretty much forgot all about it ....until today . My husband helped me with my walking frame to get up to the shed to check on everything .

 It was a lovely surprise to see it now in full bloom !

Some of the horticultural grit and a little of the compost has washed away revealing some of it's roots , I like the look of it's roots  and anyway the Autumn leaves are falling all around them now  🍂🍃🍁🍂 It looks happy again .

So now we await the first named storm of the season . Storm Amy .

Not sure when it's going to hit yet . I expect it will be wild and wet here for a time . 

 Wherever you are please take care and keep yourself safe  .

                                    love and hugs Debbie  x

                                                          🌧️⛈️🌧️

Cyclamen hederifolium 🤍🌿

 Popping up all over my garden right now ! 🤍 I love these little beauties  !

Lets go in for a real close up ....... 

                                                   I'm in love !

Weather forecast - 

 ....... but there is beauty .....

                   Go ..and make it a great day !   

Torrential Rain and Gales

 

I had promised to take you with us on our walk  up the lane to see the Snowdrops again . They were only just beginning to push up on  our  last visit .

Well , It seems that the cruel and bitterly cold Easterly winds has held them back , they are still not fully out .

The weather has changed , it is slightly milder and the wind is now coming from the west . Over night and this morning we are having torrential rain . The tiles on the roof were clattering , no damage though .

So we'll have to come back another day to see the Snowdrops fully open .

Meanwhile up in the greenhouse , everything is under sheets of newspaper, fleece and blankets .The floor is very wet , since there are a few slightly slipped panes of glass . I think everything will be alright though. I had forgotten about the two most precious plants Veltheimia bracteata and the Marlothistella ,which I had meant to bring indoors last time I came up here to cover everything up and light the candles in the lantern .

I waited  for the wind to ease up , then quickly scooped them up and dashed back to the cottage .I have put them on the table in the porch .They can stay in there for a couple of days , to slowly acclimatise .

Then I will bring the Veltheimia in , so that I can enjoy watching her come into flower on my  kitchen windowsill . I grew this from seed . It gives me such a thrill to see it in flower !

I have some more seeds saved from last year's flower . I really must try and remember to sow them up soon .

Marlothistella uniondalensis , her flowers just beginning to go over , was not very happy under sheets of newspapers in the greenhouse . She will now will be much happier in the porch .

My lovely Cyclamen by the back doorstep , had been looking so gorgeous a few days ago , was now been completely flattened by the wind . I am so cross with myself for not moving it to a safer place .

I brought it into the porch . It is picking up already and I can see some more buds coming . 

So the Winter freeze appears to be over and we are back to normal ....rain , drifting sea mizzle and fog again !