DECEMBER DELIGHTS

December delights, in the garden that is…..

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 The crunch of leaves under my feet, I find myself shuffling through the leaves to amplify the sound, much as my children did years ago. Living in the city we would have to go to a park to find this carpet..

I refuse to have them raked just yet. The ‘Mighty Oak’ has not yet dropped its leaves….

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so that’s my excuse, but really….too much fun!

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French Breakfast radishes from the Potager and Spicy Baby Lettuce  ready for a small salad.

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Perfuming the air is  the shrub “Wintersweet” Chimonanthus praecox.

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It always blooms for my birthday. What a gift!!

More on Wintersweet here

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10 thoughts on “DECEMBER DELIGHTS

  1. I left a message on your birthday and I see it didn’t make it! hope you had a good one, dear friend! those dark pink camellias are to die for. There is a beautiful bush at my daughter in law’s parents house already in bloom on Thanksgiving. I must get one. After all, I am Southern now, no?

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