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Gardens in winter have so much to offer. Designers often wax lyrical about the delights of ‘structure’, by which they mean woody plants, particularly […]
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It has been the strangest month; cold – indeed the frostiest April in sixty years – and desert-dry. Although we’ve escaped spring frosts here […]
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It’s a little known fact – so little known that one might almost call it a secret – that the first job I ever […]
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Our garden is at its lowest ebb from early February until the Ides of March, on the 15th of the month. Battered by gales […]
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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 […]
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I’m a little bit stuck at the moment. I don’t so much have writers’ block as writers’ constipation; that is, lots of posts backing […]
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Unpredictability is the name of the game when it comes to British weather, but one old proverb certainly promises to ring true in 2019: […]
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Since my new fella has been on the scene, I have been enjoying an activity that I have rarely experienced before – gardening ‘à […]
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The town of Fordwich has the distinction of being the smallest in England. Situated on the River Stour, which connects Canterbury with the English […]
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As great days out go, I rank a visit to the Cornwall Spring Flower Show up there with Chelsea and Sissinghurst. It’s a special […]
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The recent chilly weather has had its pros and cons. The downside for eager gardeners who have been nurturing seedlings and planting out […]
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It’s all going on in the garden right now. The plants have had a sniff of spring and now they are intoxicated, thrusting […]
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