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It's a beautiful sunny day, today. Bright sunshine, as though spring has arrived! I bought a globe artichoke (Cynara cardunculus), or I think that's what it is, for its flowers. It has a couple of leaves at present and I'm going to leave it in the pot for a while before planting it in the front garden. I've not grown them before. I want to get some ornamental thistles, too. 
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Genius
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| Lovely to see you Penny (Avatar) Have never grown artichokes, my dear mum did, we loved those flowers
Kath
UK - Zone 8
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Thanks, Kath. I'm gazing at the tree I'd planted late last year to mark my little dog's resting place in a friend's field. She has planted hundreds of bushes and trees to make a hedgerow and said I could bury Schuee there under a tree. The fields are long and narrow and run beside a river, with sheep grazing in them. I planted a young buckthorn, the American sort of hawthorn. It has beautiful autumn colour and will bear big berries.
Do you remember the colour of your mum's artichoke flowers? Were they yellow?
I've had a lazy day as I'm cooking up a cold, I think. Didn't feel like doing much.
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| My cold is 'boiling-over' atm, just can't shift it, but heh, keep taking the lem-sips etc. My mum's artichoke flowers were always of a lilac/purple colour Penny
Kath
UK - Zone 8
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Hope you're soon feeling better, Kath. I rested most of yesterday and have managed to stop the cold-sore developing, using "Zovirax".
A complete contrast in weather this morning, to yesterday. It's raining and very windy. The spruce in a pot has blown over and a plastic chair has been blown down the garden. Must rescue them.
I go into Palmer Gardens today, where I volunteer. The first lot of little plugs of spring plants are due this week - always lots of work to do pricking them out into larger containers, ready to grow on in the big polytunnels.
Time to make a start on the day and walk the dogs.
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Another pleasant, if breezy day. We don't see as many thrushes as we used but today there was one sitting on the front windowsill, looking at the berries on a bush growing under the window. Very nice to see it.
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| Yes Penny, They are 'few and far between' in this neck of the woods too. Are you keeping warm up there in South Yorkshire Don? have you had much snowfall? I think we shall miss most of it here in this little corner of East Anglia.
Kath
UK - Zone 8
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