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• Grow Your Own Asparagus

  

  © Michelle Garrett Now is the perfect time to be planting asparagus and with a number of online retailers offering fast delivery there’s still time if you act... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Spring’s Gone Undercover

  

  While all remains frozen in time outdoors, the RHS Spring Show in London revealed many of the delights we have been missing.  As always I was smitten by the... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Did Someone Say Spring ?

  

  I’ve just taken delivery of my second lot of plants from Plant Me Now.  There’s Salvia nemerosa ‘Caradonna’, a gorgeous deep blue herbaceous salvia that I’ve... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• A Little Burst of Yellow Optimism

  

  The Spring Equinox saw the launch of this year’s Yellow Book – aptly described by the sponsor Investec as ‘A little burst of yellow optimism’. Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Three Unmissable Gardening Events This Year

  

  Over the 27th 28th April Charleston – once the home of members of the Bloomsbury Group – is holding a Garden Weekend. There’s an opportunity to work... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• No Weather for a Dwarf Bean

  

  Not unreasonably, thinking that spring might have arrived by now, I sowed some dwarf French beans in February for an early greenhouse crop. Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Your Help Please…

  The Agriculture Minister Owen Paterson is threatening to abstain from today’s vote to ban neonicitinoids.  If he, along with Germany and Spain do this, there... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• A Garden Library

  

  Someone quoted Cicero on our Facebook page saying : ‘If you have a library and a garden you have everything’. It must be obvious by now that I have a garden, bu... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• The Vagaries of Our Climate

  

  Yesterday I was cutting blossom laden branches from the mimosa, today powder snow is blowing in horizontal clouds off the roof and the mimosa tree looks very ou... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Free Heat

  

  The bags of freshly chipped bark that are waiting to be spread on the paths in the garden have provided an unexpected benefit. Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Captivating Crocus & Other Spring Delights

  

  I love crocus tommasinianus, they are the true heralds of spring – in my garden anyway.  In the warm sunshine they fling wide their petals and jostle for the... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Orchard Cards

  

  Slightly off-piste from my usual reviews, but I want to share a link to a website that I’ve just tried and liked. Orchard Cards is an online shop that... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Very Green Beans

  

  I’m being determinedly optimistic and telling myself that this cold easterly wind will swing round before long and the shivering days will be over replaced by... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Totally Barking

  

  My usual suppliers of amenity bark for mulching the woodland part of the garden (we are talking square metres not acres) can no longer deliver down our narrow... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Pure Rain

  

  When the time comes to reconnect the hose (hard to imagine at the moment) I will be trialling the new Handheld Gun Plus from Pure Rain, which rather cleverly... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Grey to Green

  

  I loved this idea from Stockholm Design Week. Designer Caroline Brahme was showing these Grey to Green series of paving stones for St. Eriks with planting in th... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Plant Me Now

  

  The website for Plant me Now describes itself as ‘a bunch of gardeners with an online garden centre’. That sounds friendly and approachable, which is always a... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Ahead of the Curve

  

  Enviroden is a company that specialises in making well-designed garden buildings topped with curved living roofs. They can even gussie-up an existing shed and... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Just Glovely

  

  I came home from the Press Event with several new pairs of gloves. I like Joe’s Gloves because the different colours indicate different work weights, so it’s... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Half-Price Seconds Sale at Whichford Pottery

  

  It will soon be the annual clearance of “seconds” at Whichford Pottery. Flowerpots – all at half price or less.  Each flowerpot is entirely handmade at the... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2013 GARDENING, HOME