“Some Like it Hot …
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….. and others do not. I am one of the others.” The Frustrated Gardener, July 2015 Visiting Hampton Court Palace Flower Show in 35 […]
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Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2015: Design Heaven or Style Circus?
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Just two days to go until the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show opens to the public and I’ve finally had five minutes to see […]
Finding Serenity in Stoke Newington
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For as long as I can recall my uncle has lived in Stoke Newington. Known affectionately as ‘Stokey’ by locals, this appealing enclave in […]
A Year in the Vegetable Garden
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We would not describe ourselves as vegetable gardeners, at least not yet, but since we completed a project to build raised beds in our […]
Daily Flower Candy: Convolvulus sabatius
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Mention the name bindweed and the first thing that springs to mind is one of gardeners’ greatest horrors, hedge bindweed (Calystegia sepium). Undoubtedly beautiful in […]
GROW London 2015
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A post about GROW London, the capital’s newest, freshest garden show, is one of the many that never found its way out of my […]
Wallowing in the June Gap
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We are in the midst of a period known to gardeners and beekeepers as the June Gap. Both of our gardens have become a […]
Knocking Through
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I’ve been a bit quiet of late and that’s because I’ve been buying a new house. We are not moving, but knocking through into […]
In the Pink
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It’s early June and the hedgerows of England are at their most ebullient. Nowhere are they more vivacious than in the West County where the […]
Cake and Kayaking
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Today The Frustrated Gardener celebrated three years on the World Wide Web, but there was a more significant party in town, my dad’s 70th. […]
Daily Flower Candy: Incarvillea delavayi ‘Snowtop’
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I need more plants like I need a hole in the head. The garden is already bursting at the seams and there’s twelve weeks […]
Gardening on the Edge: Foamlea, North Devon
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The most inspiring gardens are not always those on which huge funds are lavished or indeed the better known ones. Often they are the […]