Ursula's Cambridge Garden

Professional gardener and plantswoman writing from my small urban garden in a great city

Merry Christmas 2016!

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Dear all

Just a very quick post to wish everyone a great Christmas and a happy break and to remind everyone that now it’s winter it’s time to celebrate all the lovely evergreens that lift our spirits in December and January, hiding almost unpraised for most of the year, now is there moment to shine!

Clematis cirrhosa flowering happily in the December sunshine…

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Convolvulus cneorum, a new silvery addition to my garden…

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Good old stalwart, Sarcococca – a particularly fine leaved form Sarcococca ruscifolia var.chinensias ‘Dragon Gate’, discovered by Roy Lancaster.

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Lovely medieval Myrtle, with it’s lovely purpley tinge.

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And bamboo and Yukka and rosemary soldiering on…

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and my dear old Astelia.

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Merry Christmas and a happy gardening new year!

3 thoughts on “Merry Christmas 2016!

  1. Thank you Ursula for your greetings from Blighty and may and I send them from English harbour where we are surrounded by Nelsonia.Actually he hated the place but now 230 years later he would have been pleased to see the only complete Georgian dockyard still working.merry Christmas m and w.

  2. Dear Ursula, What a wonderful display in your winter garden .I love the Clematis cirrhosa.We have got the Coronilla on your advice and have high hopes that it will look as good as yours one day.
    Happy Christmas .Mum.

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