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Sunday 12th January 2025 - Cold Snap, Mole Hills and Snowdrops

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More of the same, as far as the weather is concerned; care has been needed when walking, to avoid ice patches.  We are having, what is termed as a ‘cold snap’.  I’ve still been tempted out into the garden but once outside, I realise it is far too cold and if I did go out, I am more likely to do damage, than any real good.  However, Peter has been in the garden, burning old wood etc. in the incinerator.  The end product, wood ash, will be good for the ground on his vegetable plot.  Indoors, I have been collating both my blogs and glogs (garden logs) for 2024, before printing them.  During the course of each year, I keep various leaflets and popping these into slip in folders made me realise just how much bumph came through our letterbox, prior to the general election.  My glogs, acted as a reminder of what an awful summer we had last year, that is, if you could call it a summer.

 

Sad to see the other morning the foliage on one of my clivias had detached itself from the root base.  This was an offspring of the main plant, bought for me by our eldest son and which must be a good twenty years old, always producing flowers twice a year.  I still have the original plant and another offspring.  I tidied the base of the severed foliage and put this in water to see if it will root.  I don’t hold out much hope but you can but try.  Still on the subject of house plants, after struggling to survive and general looking a bit on the tatty side my Christmas cactus has flowered this year.  I have mentioned before; my special attachment to this plant.  It started as cuttings, from my Nana’s plant.  For years it was a stunner at Christmas until she died in 2000 and since then it has never been the same but it now seems to be rallying.  I hope it has reached a turning point and will now thrive and no longer drop leaf sections and flower buds.

 

We have noticed an increase in mole hills, on and near the car park.  The moles are obviously not fazed by the cold top soil.  The hills show they are becoming more active, ahead of the breeding season which generally starts in February.  Lovely to see snowdrops in flower, (see photo below) on a bank and road edge.  No sign of ours in the garden but with so many varieties they don’t all bloom at the same time.



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