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Surviving The Long, Hot Summer

Reading time 13 minutes

This time next year we’ll probably be moaning about the cold and wet. Meanwhile it’s clear that UK gardens and gardeners are ill-equipped to cope with extended, hot summers. Here’s how we’ve coped in Broadstairs.

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How To Enjoy Your Garden In June

Reading time 33 minutes

June is the most quintessentially English month. Country gardens are brimming with hollyhocks, lupins, delphiniums, peonies, irises and, of course, roses. Here’s how to get the most enjoyment from your garden this month.

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Garden Diary: May 2020 Part I

Reading time 18 minutes

Where, oh where did May go? No sooner had it started than June was upon us. Now it’s midsummer, the longest day is almost […]

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Allot of Social Distancing

Reading time 11 minutes

If there can be any positive from the current worldwide situation it is the time that we now have at our disposal. We can […]

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In The Night Garden

Reading time 10 minutes

When was the last time you ventured out into your garden after nightfall? Not at dusk, or to put the rubbish out, but to […]

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Tales from the Gin & Tonic Garden

Reading time 9 minutes

  As a rule, I don’t sit down, unless it’s to eat a meal or to work. When I make myself a cup of […]

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Le Jardin Secret, Marrakech

Reading time 20 minutes

  To create a new garden and open it to the public in the space of three years would be a challenge for the […]

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