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![](thumb_IMG_6742.jpg) January snow |
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![](thumb_IMG_6745.jpg) Berne Avenue |
![](thumb_IMG_6749.jpg) Jupiter January 2009 |
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![](thumb_IMG_6916.jpg) Crocuses March 2009 |
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![](thumb_IMG_6925.jpg) Frames to protect seed beds |
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![](thumb_IMG_7071.jpg) Hilary, Barry and Tim grass cutting |
![](thumb_IMG_7072.jpg) Forsythia April 2009 |
![](thumb_IMG_7200.jpg) The Heron looking for a meal in the pond |
![](thumb_IMG_7219.jpg) Rhododendron ... ... flowering this year |
![](thumb_IMG_7220.jpg) ... flowering this year |
![](thumb_IMG_7226.jpg) The Berberis in full bloom |
![](thumb_IMG_7227_22.jpg) The Amarylis flowering again this year ... |
![](thumb_IMG_7227_27.jpg) ... and again ... |
![](thumb_IMG_7227_53.jpg) ... and now ... |
![](thumb_IMG_7227_54.jpg) ... with ... |
![](thumb_IMG_7227_55.jpg) ... six ... |
![](thumb_IMG_7227_56.jpg) ... blooms |
![](thumb_IMG_7251.jpg) Bluebells in the woods on the hill behind the house |
![](thumb_IMG_7252.jpg) the view from "our" hill Wolstanton, Newcastle, and the Roaches in the distance |
![](thumb_IMG_7291.jpg) poppies |
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![](thumb_IMG_7295.jpg) the drive, weeded May 2009 |
![](thumb_IMG_7316.jpg) clematis |
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![](thumb_IMG_7321.jpg) more poppies |
![](thumb_IMG_7323a.jpg) and still more ... |
![](thumb_IMG_7324.jpg) ...Amarylis... |
![](thumb_IMG_7324a.jpg) ...with four more blooms ten in all |
![](thumb_IMG_7325.jpg) and the red one... |
![](thumb_IMG_7325a.jpg) ...too |
![](thumb_IMG_7326.jpg) roses and clematis |
![](thumb_IMG_7332.jpg) new rhododendron |
![](thumb_IMG_7333.jpg) new hydrangea |
![](thumb_IMG_7374.jpg) cleaning the patio and rear of the house June 2009 |
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![](thumb_IMG_7378.jpg) hibiscus |
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![](thumb_IMG_7381.jpg) some of the roses prospered |
![](thumb_IMG_7382.jpg) our bathroom lodger |
![](thumb_IMG_7444.jpg) a wasps nest in the compost heap demolished by a badger? |
![](thumb_IMG_7471%20(01).jpg) Yet another amarylis! September |
![](thumb_IMG_7471%20(03).jpg) The front bed cleared out and replanted September |
![](thumb_IMG_7471%20(04).jpg) Painted Lady enjoying the marjoram |
![](thumb_IMG_7471%20(07).jpg) Renewing the decaying fence September |
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![](thumb_IMG_7480%20(02).jpg) Comma October 2009 |
![](thumb_IMG_7480%20(22).jpg) Pineapple forming |
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![](thumb_IMG_7480%20(24).jpg) flowering Fatsia |