These are the pictures of how things were in the garden on the 8th Jan. I have no idea what many of the plants that are still visible are, or what is going to grow throughout the year.

It is split into three parts. This is the right hand border as seen from the house. The fence gets some sun at noon at this time of year. This is the wetter side of the garden. Rain collects in pools by the side of the lawn and the grass is very squelchy even when there has not been much rain.

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There is a whole mess of trees together here and I'm not sure how many there actually are. I like the red berries on this. I'm thinking it is a kind of cotoneaster. You can also see a "herringbone" like branch growing from the ground. This may be connected to the …

These are the pictures of how things were in the garden on the 8th Jan. I have no idea what many of the plants that are still visible are, or what is going to grow throughout the year.

It is split into three parts. This is the back border of the garden. It will get penty of sun later in the year although not so much at this time.

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I am thinking that this may be a Lady's Mantel (Alchemilla). There are a few of these plants with their dead leaves.

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An evergreen creeping plant. It looks like it is going to be a lot of trouble to keep it under control.

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There is another patch of the plant that I am guessing is a Yellow Loosestrife.

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I am guessing that this is a catmint of some kind.

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At first I thought that this was a foxglove, but …

These are the pictures of how things were in the garden on the 8th Jan. I have no idea what many of the plants that are still visible are, or what is going to grow throughout the year.

It is split into three parts. This is the left hand side of the garden looking from the house. It is on the south west side of the garden. It is in shadow from other houses and the fence for most of the day. This side of the garden is less wet than the other side.

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This is the beginning of the area that runs along side the house. There are a variety of small shrubs and creeping vines.

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There is a patch of what I am guessing is Montbretia, but could be some other Iris like thing.

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There is a climbing plant along a trellis. It is completely dormant, in fact …

It's the day after the shortest day of the year. I now have my first garden although I am not actually moving in until after Christmas.

Even though it is sunny the whole garden is in shadow, the houses are arranged so that they could be blocking the light in many different directions. The garden faces north west, so I am expecting that there will be sun in the afternoon and evening later in the year.

I have a bag of bluebell bulbs that I bought a couple of months ago, so I plant them now as the bulbs don't last that long apparently. The ground is very wet and heavy, one hole I dig fills with water and it is not very deep.

I'm a little bit disappointed, although I console myself this is going to be the very worst time and clearly things do grow here.

At one time I would upgrade very soon after a new release came out. These days there is rarely any must-have new features, so I have been leaving upgrades later and later. This time, so much so that I have completely skipped F14 and gone straight to F15.

A number of things have changed and the following notes may be useful.

I installed the 64 bit version of fedora on this machine. Everything went without any problems during the install.

In general everything just works as you would expect and as previously. This biggest change probably gnome-shell and I will probably write something separate on that, but there is no problems with the video driver, it works very smoothly on this machine, unlike on my desktop machine where it was just about unusable out of the box. Suspend

This works fine although you still have to add the option i8042.reset=1 …