Winter 2019

 Howdy. 

Been a while. 

I've added the blogger app to my phone so that i can access my photos as switching accounts on the Mac and sharing across accounts is to much like hard work. 

So, we have flooding. At the allotment for now...

  

Not as bad as our allotment neighbours' though. Wowsers...it has never been this bad. 

This is the 'field' behind our plot... yes I know, it currently looks like a lake...but it isn't. Behind that is the River Derwent. It is flooding all over the shop, literally as it has even shut down Derby City Centre, which is a pretty rare occurrence.

 

However bad the plot gets though, this is the field to worry about at home. 

 

If this field floods, we are done for. 

In the back garden, we have the Trent and Mersey canal, which to the top right feeds into the River Trent. They closed off the flood gates to avoid water from the Trent running back up the canal [and onto our gardens and houses]...and to the bottom right is a lock which is right now literally on lock down; to prevent any water coming down the canal. So fingers crossed it stays that way until the water recedes.

 

 In our garden, we have some nice things still...A Japanese Blood Grass Imperita cylindrica which was on its last legs this time last year, so I dug it up and nursed it back to health and it has been stunning this summer. The mulched section is where we dug out a twisty hazel Corylus avellana, as it was getting too big, and the shape had completely gone, and it was in the wrong place to start with. We will replace it with another, probably a red variety.

  

These Peacock orchids, Acidenthera murielae...we try and put fresh bulbs in each year as they rarely last and these flowered late and when they did, they faced the neighbour's garden not us so I gave them a rollocking and what do you know, they have have turned themselves around and are still flowering mid November.