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Tag Archives: marigold
25.6.39.
Fine all day & fairly warm until evening. Sweet williams, two red roses & one Albertine full out. A salvia & a marigold in bud. Some stonecrop in full flower. Stonecrop appears to flower erratically as one clump has been … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged Albertine rose, marigold, roses, salvia, stonecrop, sweet williams
11 Comments
13.4.39.
Not so warm. A very light shower in the evening. Very dark night. A few pansies & wallflowers starting to bloom. Pansies spread by self-sowing almost as much as marigold. Red saxifrage coming into flower. Ten eggs.
16.3.39.
Yesterday not quite so hot, overcast & clouds of dust. Ditto today, probably presaging rain. Other wildflowers here: a small kind of scabius°, several vetches, one of them very pretty, with a flower about the size of that of a … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged camel cub, cavalry, greenfinches, marigold, ploughing, scabius, vetch, weather, wildflowers
16 Comments
22.2.39.
Heavy mist yesterday morning. In general distinctly hotter. A lot of wildflowers now, two of marigold type, a sort of daisy, & various others.
2.12.38
The weather has been much cooler, some days clear & fine, much like English spring, sometimes heavy mist. The day before yesterday fairly heavy rain. On clear days the Atlas mountains look extremely close, so that you can distinguish every … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged carnations, catapult, clarkias, godetias, marigold, nasturtiums, pansies, phlox, pinks, poppies, seeds, sunflowers, sweet peas, violas, weather
33 Comments
1.11.38
Fine, not at all hot. People ploughing everywhere. The plough stirs the soil about 4” to 6” deep. The soil varies greatly & some of it looks rather good. Large patches which were perhaps cultivated a year ago have been … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged goat giving birth, goats, marigold, nasturtiums, ploughing, pomegranates, wheat
3 Comments
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