
How to Grow Dahlias – A Simple Guide
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The Frustrated Gardener is very much a team effort. Whilst it’s usually me pounding the keyboard, from time to time my partner John, otherwise […]
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The Frustrated Gardener is very much a team effort. Whilst it’s usually me pounding the keyboard, from time to time my partner John, otherwise […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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January is a unique month in the year when plants, on the whole, demand very little from gardeners. House plants are an exception, but […]
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Although I find growing from seed one of the most rewarding aspects of gardening, I have done so less and less in recent […]
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In a series of posts over the coming weeks I’m going to be looking at what the seed merchants and nurseries have in store […]
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Mirabilis jalapa: marvel of Peru, four o’clock flower, tea-time plant It’s been an extraordinary weekend for gardening. The weather has been warm, dry and […]
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Yesterday, after several abortive attempts, I finally managed to drag Him Indoors to Derry Watkins’ Special Plants Nursery at Cold Ashton, near my home […]
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Regular readers may already have noticed that I am sucker for a subtropical plant. On a cold Sunday in February, whilst visiting London’s Chelsea Physic Garden, […]
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How often do we subscribe to organisations or take out memberships and yet fail to take full advantage of them? I have been signed up […]
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Just after Christmas we popped over to Whitstable for a spot of Champagne and shopping with our friend Karen. Situated on the Thames estuary, Whitstable’s […]
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Tonight I am greatly in need of a happy pill. The best I can muster from the depths of the medicine cabinet is a […]
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