Dazzling Dahlias
Reading time 11 minutes
As you know, we both adore dahlias: sadly they don’t adore our garden. Dahlias appreciate a little elbow room and plenty of sunshine to […]
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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 […]
Garden Diary: April 2020
Reading time 30 minutes
April was a bittersweet month. Among many positives were the beautiful weather and being able to spend extra time in the garden with The […]
Allot of Social Distancing
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If there can be any positive from the current worldwide situation it is the time that we now have at our disposal. We can […]
Easter Extravaganza
Reading time 11 minutes
Oh the irony. For the last three years our National Gardens Scheme area organiser has been asking if we’d open the garden for a […]
Garden Diary: March 2020
Reading time 28 minutes
Who could have predicted that the Month of March would end as it did? Over the course of two weeks our daily routines changed […]
Plant Profile: Tulipa fosteriana ‘Zombie’
Reading time 4 minutes
Do you remember, several months ago, when we were all potting up our spring bulbs …. each and every one of us full of […]
Plant Profile: Salvia leucocephala
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Late last summer we paid a flying visit to Dyson’s Nurseries at Great Comp near Sevenoaks in Kent. It was all rather unsatisfactory as […]
Garden Diary: February 2020
Reading time 17 minutes
I have decided to start a garden diary. It’s been over 30 years since I last kept any form of journal so I can’t […]
Here We Blow Again
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Oh, the inconvenience; first Ciara, now Dennis, putting paid to any plans we had to tend our allotment or work in the garden this […]
How to be a Better Gardener in 2020
Reading time 16 minutes
January has been a month of quiet reflection. There’s been relatively little to do in the garden, the house is clean and tidy post […]
Seedy Thoughts
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There’s not much that January is good for, apart from cosying-up by the fire, drinking the Christmas drinks cabinet dry and browsing seed catalogues. […]