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Early signs of Autumn

8 September 2024

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Barn News

Conkers are already appearing on the horse chestnut tree alongside the driveway and the leaves are beginning to lose their bright green colour. Plentiful bright orange berries can be seen on the pyracantha which acts as screening for the gas tank.
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Flower pots and baskets

31 August 2024

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Barn News

We have refreshed the flower baskets and pots which decorate the barn’s patio as shown in the photos.
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Autumn flower planting

18 October 2022

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Barn News

The flower pots, tubs and baskets at Rhydd Barn have been attractively replanted for the autumn and winter. Our gardener took some photos:
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Wild life at Rhydd Barn

22 April 2022

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Barn News

I am keen to encourage wild life in all its forms to visit and/or live in the surroundings of the Barn. On a recent visit I managed to take a photo (see below) of a beautiful pheasant that was strutting around our field immediately in front of the Barn. It visited us all week, morning…
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Flowers and seeds

8 August 2021

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Barn News

Roses and clematis are in bloom on the screen around our LPG (gas) tank brightening up the entrance drive approach to the Barn. We have planted a new dark pink clematis in a pot on the patio to climb up the Malvern stone wall and the trellis above. Seed heads have appeared in the wildflower…
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Gardening

12 December 2019

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Barn News

Our wonderful gardener has been busy at Rhydd Barn refreshing our flower pots, tubs, and baskets around the barn patio—the cyclamen look good now. And the small flower bed at the entrance to the barn has been tidied up: some unsuitable shrubs were removed in favour of smaller flowering plants (eg small roses from the…
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Spring 2017 at Rhydd Barn

28 March 2017

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Barn News

[soliloquy id=”829″] Our plant pots on the patio have been refreshed and spring flowers – primroses – are appearing in the little wild flower meadow despite the cold weather. The new gates installed last year have been varnished to protect them.
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Landscaping around Rhydd Barn

25 July 2016

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Barn News

The small garden by the side of the entrance drive to Rhydd Barn has been re-landscaped with interesting plants surrounded by wood chips on the soil to suppress weeds and retain moisture. A new clematis has been planted in a pot at the back of the patio by the converted pigsty which should climb up the…
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Patio flowers

3 March 2015

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Barn News

Spring tubs outside the barn.
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Flowering meadow

9 April 2014

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Barn News

Primroses and cowslips are flowering in the little meadow by the entrance gate to Rhydd Barn. More primroses have been planted this month. Bluebells are flowering at the bottom of the slope behind the barn in ‘the dingle’. The small white flowers of blackthorn are appearing in the hedgerows. A lovely warm sunny day after…
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