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The Blackberry Garden
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Blog about my garden, how I feel about it and what inspires me to garden
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Snowdrops 2024 - A Thenford Return
I decided it was time to revisit Thenford, it is six years (six years!!!) since I was last there so a visit was long overdue. Despite the copious amounts of... Read more
Posted on 15 February 2024 GARDENING, HOME -
Farewell His Gingerness
It has been a really hard week, a couple of days ago I said my final goodbye to my beautiful Bruce, the wonderful, the placid, the great and mighty His... Read more
Posted on 11 February 2024 GARDENING, HOME -
Tree Following - February 2024
The Quince Brothers have had a bit of a snooze but now they are thinking about Spring. The boys like to go early, they are not ones to hang about; which in som... Read more
Posted on 08 February 2024 GARDENING, HOME -
Snowdrops 2024 - Attingham Park
It is no secret that I am a great fan of snowdrops. I have a few of the cheaper posh ones, but mainly I grow the simply lovely Galanthus nivalis. Snowdrop tim... Read more
Posted on 04 February 2024 GARDENING, HOME -
End of Month Review January 2024
January has been an odd month. It is traditionally the longest month of the year, refusing to end and just keeping on keeping on. We have had sunny crisp days... Read more
Posted on 01 February 2024 GARDENING, HOME -
Free the Magnolia One!
Or I did some pruning I should have done ages ago. When I first saw my current home, when I very first saw it, the magnolia in the front garden was flowering. ... Read more
Posted on 28 January 2024 GARDENING, HOME -
Irritating Plant of the Month - an Apology to the Christmas Cyclamen
It has been a while since I have written about an irritating plant. Regulars readers will know that the irritation is more at my poor gardening skills rather... Read more
Posted on 26 January 2024 GARDENING, HOME -
Letter to the Garden - January 2024
Dear Garden Well here we are in a new year and I want to say, a new storm. As I write Storm Isha is gusting towards us. Apparently the storm naming year... Read more
Posted on 21 January 2024 GARDENING, HOME -
Colour in the Winter Garden
As I write this it is deep winter outside. The temperature dropped to -6 last night which is very cold for here in the mild middle. As ever when it gets to... Read more
Posted on 18 January 2024 GARDENING, HOME -
The Blackberry Tales 15 - A Snowdrop Mystery
It is the time of year for mysteries, the dark nights and grey murky days and festive televsion seems to groan with Agatha Christie dramatisations and other suc... Read more
Posted on 14 January 2024 GARDENING, HOME -
Cold
It is cold, we have reached the minus temperatures at night and the barely above freezing temperatures during the day. I know, I know: what we think of as... Read more
Posted on 10 January 2024 GARDENING, HOME -
Tree Following January 2024 - Ouch
I said I was going to do it and I have. There has been a pruning. There has been prunings. Quince Major and Quince Minor have been pruned. Now I am not... Read more
Posted on 07 January 2024 GARDENING, HOME -
End of Month Review December 2023
I think it is fair to say that December was rainy. Gosh so much rain, rain that has continued pretty much unabated into the first days of January. I never... Read more
Posted on 04 January 2024 GARDENING, HOME -
Camellia Carnage
Then as I was wandering the garden the other day a space in the garden that I had not identified as a serious space, waved at me and said: "Wouldn't a camellia... Read more
Posted on 31 December 2023 GARDENING, HOME -
The Blackberry Garden Plant of the Year Award 2023
Now in its tenth year, it is time for the Blackberry Garden 'Plant of the Year' 2023 award. As ever this competition has been hotly contested by plants who had... Read more
Posted on 29 December 2023 GARDENING, HOME -
My Little Tannenbaum is Celebrating Its Third Christmas
It is now three years since I was gifted a mini Christmas tree from Bloom Wild. I am under no obligation to write this post but I am so fond of this tree... Read more
Posted on 21 December 2023 GARDENING, HOME -
Starting off Christmas at Calke
Regular readers will know that my Christmas begins at Calke Abbey when I meet up with a good friend and we peruse the Christmas Fair. The Fairs vary in dates... Read more
Posted on 17 December 2023 GARDENING, HOME -
Book Reviews: Briliant English Gardens by Clive Nichols and Venetian Gardens by...
These two books have to be two of the most beautiful gardening books I have ever seen. It was impossible for me not to review them. I was given these books bu... Read more
Posted on 15 December 2023 GARDENING, HOME -
Letter to the Garden December 2023 - All Will Be Well
How are you? Rather wet and soggy after snow, ice and rain. You are very muddy but I am getting on with weeding and sorting when I can. You do feel a... Read more
Posted on 10 December 2023 GARDENING, HOME -
Tree Following - December 2023
Dear all, it has happened, The surviving quince has succombed to gravity (aka mavity) and has fallen. The birds had already had a peck or two and I will leav... Read more
Posted on 07 December 2023 GARDENING, HOME