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Here, I journal the transformation of our tiny London backyard into a dream garden. I hope you will like it!

A dream garden, for me, is an outdoor space filled with rich colours and seductive scents, offering beautiful flowers, interesting textures and tasty morsels for our delectation. Also a source of nourishment for the local wildlife - birds, butterflies and bees. A space to enjoy with my SO, friends, family, and, of course, our cats. Somewhere to sit and have coffee, or even a meal, and a tiny patch of grass to lie on in the fleeting sunshine of the English summer. And, we're almost there...

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Monday, 31 January 2011

Winter Blooms

Some of the early bulbs have recently shot up out of the ground (including pots), but no buds are yet visible. There are absolutely no flowers in the garden except for my namesake, witch hazel Jelena, which is already in bloom. If that is the right word for the weird, spider-like, burnt-orange flowers covering the twiggy branches:

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2 comments:

  1. *6 February 2011 at 09:21

    That's so neat! I didn't know that Jelena meant witch hazel! Very cool. I also didn't know what witch hazel looked like; nor that it "bloomed" like that!

    Nothing blooming here yet. Still much too cold.

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  2. JardinDuReve15 February 2011 at 19:47

    Ah, just saw this! No, this particular variety of witch hazel is called "Jelena", which happens to be my name too. Am too lazy for inverted commas, I'm afraid! ;)

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