Well unsurprisingly with 3 inches of snow dumped over the garden gardening activities have ceased in favour of trying to melt the ice on the little fish pond to aerate the water, taking bad photographs and sitting in the conservatory admiring all my geranium cuttings. Yes for the first time ever i took a load of autumn cuttings from my border fuchsias and geraniums. Well I say "a load" in fact about a dozen geraniums and 2 dozen fuchsias. My reasoning was based on my previous success rates in the cutting department - ie normally 1 in 10 survive. Well this time I have a 100% success rate and a positive hedge of 12 inch geraniums and fuchsias absolutely loving the conservatory and rapidly out growing their pots. I also have half a dozen auriculas. No i dont know much about these - my Mum gave me some last year and they did nothing and looked miserable where ever i put them - sun shade, pot or border. Nevertheless I brought then all in for winter. Quite honestly they are still disappointing - they don't look alive or dead and don't change much from day to day - a major case of the sulks. So anyway the conservatory is teeming with life and the garden still all white with a number of half grown daffodil shoots now looking stupid as they arrived too early - fooled by the mild January. Be interesting to see how they turn out.
Other than that not much to report. Keep feeding the garden birds and squirrel - the latter not welcome but I don't actively stop it. Always amazed the sparrows and blue tits survive the cold but they are judging by the fat ball consumption rate.
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