Merry Christmas!
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A very Merry Christmas to all my lovely followers and to garden lovers everywhere. Have a wonderful day!
Musings
The Final Push…..
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This week has quite simply run away with me. It’s gone by in a blur of glitter, spreadsheets, wrapping paper, meetings, champagne, parties, chocolate, […]
O Tannenbaum!
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I promised a picture of our Christmas tree so, here it is in all its glory. It took over 2 hours to weave on […]
A Tropical Christmas
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Just one more flight and I’ll be home for Christmas. Work won’t be over for a while, but in the meantime this unusual, tropical-inspired […]
Pesky Paperwhites
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Once again, I’ve mistimed my paperwhite narcissi. Just three weeks after planting they are in full bloom, filling every corner of the house with […]
National Garden Scheme Opening Dates
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It’s official, our garden at The Watch House will be open as part of the National Gardens Scheme on Saturday August 2nd and Sunday […]
Fallen
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Mercifully, the St Jude’s Day storm was not a repeat of the Great Storm of 1987. On that occasion, the UK lost in the […]
Out of the Darkness
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I have just endured a whole week in China. It was not the death-defying driving or the tawdry toilets that upset me, it wasn’t […]
Satisfaction
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I am, quite simply, chuffed to bits with our London garden right now. At times the transformation of our boggy, heavily shaded ‘lawn’ into […]
Daily Dog Candy: Boycie
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We’ve had statues and compost guesting in the candy spot so I thought, why not a dog? Especially when the dog is as charming […]
Potting Shed Still Life
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Being the custodian of two very small gardens, I envy those with room for serious glasshouses and potting sheds. Yesterday, in the lovely walled […]
Getting There
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I have been very quiet about our London garden of late and deliberately so, for progress on the new woodland garden has been painfully […]