 New Year's Day Nuthatch on the bird feeder |

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 Indoor Flowers; early January 2018 |
 Birthday Present: Bromeliad |
 Pat's birthday present (from August) |
 Orchid, also from Pat's birthday |

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 Outdoor Pelargonium, grown from a leaf |
 Ponsettia, second time round |

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 Snowdrops February 2018 |

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 February Snow 2018 |

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 The Squiirel at the feeder |

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 March Flowers and Snow 2018 |

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 Simnel (Easter) Cake |
 Daffodils |

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 Hibiscus |
 Pineapple; beginning of the fruit |
 April 2018 |
 Camelia |
 Tulips |
 Primulae |

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 Tulips |
 Grape Hyacinths |
 One of the three Kastens |
 The first Amarylis |
 The large Pelargonium |
 Echinocereus, flowering |
 Monstera cuttings |
 Singapore orchids |
 Three cacti, flowering |
 Rhododendron |
 Bluebells on the way up to Keele |

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 May 2018 |
 The final tulips |
 Garden bluebells |

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 A rich white rhododendron |
 Amaryllus |

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 Large Pelagonium flowers |

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 ordchids |

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 The pink rhododendron |

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 Amaryllis on show |

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 Pieris |
 Tree Peony |
 Tree Peony and white rhododendron |
 Tree peony flowers |
 Apple blossom |
 Crab apple blossom |
 Following week: bluebells on the way to Keele |

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 Another Echinocereus, flowering |

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 Breakfast in the sunshine |
 The last Amaryllis |

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 The last Singapore orchid |
 The Lilac and the Rowan |
 Bog/pond iris |

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 June 2018 flowers |
 Roses in abundance |

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 Peony |
 Barry's gift |

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 July 2018: flowers |
 Clematis |

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 Rose: Oranges & Lemons |
 Welcome home from Buxton with four cactus flowers |

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 Now there are five! |
 Geraniums to decorate the shed |

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 The complete display |
 A new leaf on a Monstera Cutting |
 A new, unindented, leaf on the old Monstera plant |
 August 2018 More Cactus Flowers! |
 Dismantling the 33 year old Monstera Four leaves have been propagated in earlier years |
 The rmains of the old plant |
 With the leaves removed |
 Extracted from the pot (with difficulty) |
 The potted plant, sawn up |
 Four new plants from the remaiing leaves |
 Dorothy Clive Garden August 2018 |
 The Waterfall |
 Hibiscus revived (at home) |
 Rugosa Rose Hips... |
 ... with some roses as well |
 September flowers, 2018 |
 roses |
 Second flushes all round |

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 Another cactus flower |
 October tomatoes |
 Pollarding the Willow Tree November 2018 |
 The Willow |

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 Hibiscus |