Busy Doing Nothing
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Unlike my week, which is packed to say the least, the weekend was one of those rare and precious occasions on which there was […]
Container gardening
The Rise and Fall of Phormiums
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Walking home from work today, I passed a miserable looking clump of variegated phormiums in front of a drab public building. They were ill […]
Cucumber Cottage, Sandwich
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Sandwich is full of lanes with quirky names such as Pondicherry Alley and Knighrider Street, each packed with an interesting mix of grand houses, […]
Welcome to the Jungle
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One thing this weather is good for is making things grow…..really fast. We arrived back home this morning and opened the gate to find […]
Beguiled by Begonias
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I expect it’s desperately unfashionable to say so, but I do love a nice Begonia. They are easy on the eye, diverse and sometimes […]
Summer scents
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July is the month when our seaside garden is at its most fragrant. In a normal year we’ll spend many happy evenings outside, enjoying […]
Sensational Sissinghurst (Part 1 – Wall Flowers)
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The gardens of Sissinghurst Castle in Kent must be amond the best known in England, if not the whole of Europe. They are the […]
Captivating Annuals
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Whilst walking along Highgate High Street this afternoon, I was stopped by these charming pots of annual plants on the steps of the local […]
Geranium palmatum versus Geranium maderense
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Three years ago when I started The Frustrated Gardener this was my first ‘proper’ post. For some reason it has gone on to be […]