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At about 10.30am yesterday morning a small crowd surrounded Monty Don and RHS Director General Sue Biggs as they prepared to announce the prize […]
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Generally speaking I am not the kind of person who wins lotteries or ballots. I don’t even come out of tombolas or raffles particularly […]
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We needed to blow away the cobwebs today, so settled on a drive down to one of our favourite spots, the stretch of coastline […]
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Primped and polished gardens are all very well (we’ll be seeing a lot of them at Chelsea in a few days’ time) but for […]
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Late yesterday afternoon as I was watering, it struck me that I never take the time to enjoy my garden. Quite why this came […]
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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 […]
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The chance to view the extraordinary collection of rhododendrons and azaleas built up by the Hardy family at Sandling Park in Kent is one of […]
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It’s one of those weeks when the balance between getting stuff done and writing about it tilts in favour of the former. After a […]
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Our London garden offers few plants their perfect conditions – no surprise when you consider it was once no more than a shady patch of shattered Tarmac with subsoil dumped […]
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Yesterday I sang the praises of an orchid, today I am waxing lyrical about an onion, or a garlic to be precise. Monday’s Spring Flower Candy is […]
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I will be devoting a post to a different spring flower each day this week, and they don’t come much more special than Pleione formosana. I […]
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It really has been the most remarkable April. So far not a single drop of rain has fallen on either of our gardens and, […]
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