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 […]
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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 […]
Chelsea Physic Garden – Nick Bailey’s ‘Best in Snow’
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Early in February I went along to the Chelsea Physic Garden for one of their annual snowdrop days. I was lucky enough to bag […]
Daily Flower Candy: Primula vulgaris ‘Taigetos’
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I do so love it when a plant utterly defies the wrong situation and flourishes, when really it should turn and fail. In our London garden […]
Great Expectations – Chelsea Flower Show 2015 Show Gardens
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Only fifteen days into the New Year and the RHS have offered the public a glimpse of how the show gardens will look at this year’s […]
Blooming Boxing Day
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Even by London standards it’s been an exceptionally mild start to winter. Our traditional Boxing Day walk from Highgate to Hampstead revealed dahlias in […]
Last Knockings
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As far as flowers are concerned the pickings are fairly slim in our London garden at this time of year. Because of this I […]
On The Bridge
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You may recall that a year ago I wrote about The Garden Bridge, a proposed crossing on the Thames in London. With planning permission […]
Absolute Beginner
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I am a complete novice when it comes to growing fruit and vegetables. My last real experience was in my early teens when I […]
All Change!
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They say a change is as good as a rest. Normally I’d agree with that, but the amount of turmoil we’ve had through June […]
Anticipation
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For the lucky few – journalists, celebrities and royalty – the Chelsea Flower Show starts today. The rest of must wait until 8am tomorrow […]
Up on the Roof
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Just two flights of stairs away from one of Britain’s busiest retail floors, six storeys above Oxford Street, lies London’s newest urban green space. The Frustrated Gardener […]