Your Garden In September
Reading time 33 minutes
I’ve come to love September almost as much as May. It’s a month of gentle transition, bidding farewell to summer and ushering in autumn. Here’s what your can be doing in your garden this month ….
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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.
And So It Begins…
Reading time 9 minutes
It is official, we won’t go hungry this summer! Harvesting on the allotment has well and truly begun, especially the crop of courgettes, and […]
Birthday Bombki
Reading time 4 minutes
I celebrated The Frustrated Gardener’s second birthday yesterday in one of the farthest corners of Poland, near the city of Wroclaw. The countryside in […]
A Walk Around The Peak
Reading time 6 minutes
Spending time in Hong Kong is no great hardship. But after a week in showrooms so crammed with Christmas sparkle that you can almost […]
The Valley of the Black Cranes – Gangtey and the Phobjikha valley
Reading time 8 minutes
I once read that your preference for different kinds of landscape stems from a deep seated evolutionary instinct related to the race you’ve descended […]
What’s the Poinsettia?
Reading time 1 minute
It’s only when you first discover poinsettias growing in the wild that you really appreciate the futility of growing them as a houseplant. Here […]
National Kandawgyi Gardens, Pyin Oo Lwin, Burma
Reading time 9 minutes
As we progress around Burma, attended to like two little kings (which always makes me feel rather uncomfortable) I am continuing to persist with […]
Butterflies in Birchington – Quex Park, Kent
Reading time 6 minutes
As is so often the case, the things that are on your own doorstep are the first to be overlooked. And so, somehow, we […]