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• Guest Blog. Semi-hardy Plants to Try from Cornwall

  

  Unlike me, my friend Colin is a plant pamperer, and treats his tree ferns royally all year round. This means dutifully bringing the ferns into the house for... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2011 GARDENING

• Japanese Wineberries

  This week, I picked my first ever Japanese wineberries. Sweet, very juicy and with a slightly sharp and peppery aftertaste. I think I’m growing to love them. Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2011 GARDENING

• Visiting Judy’s Garden

  

  I recently popped round to see a fellow allotmenteer’s garden in North London. It’s not the first time that I’ve visited Judy’s garden this year. Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2011 GARDENING

• Potato Yields in Grow Bags (and Other Things)

  

  Didn’t have enough room in a client’s garden to grow potatoes this year, so we plumped for the growbag option. We used 3 Potato Gro-sacks (40 Litre / H... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2011 GARDENING

• Hampton Court Flower Show 2011-it’s Huge!

  

  This year Hampton Court Flower show seemed even bigger than ever-or is it just me? Mark Diacono, writing in the Saturday Telegraph, said that 2 days were best t... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2011 GARDENING

• Lock up Your Bikes

  

  Went on a fantastic foraging course at King Henry’s Walk in Islington yesterday (blog to follow shortly) and couldn’t help but be taken by the amazing bike... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2011 GARDENING

• Asplenium Scolopendrium

  

  I was completely seduced by the crinkly curves of this Asplenium scolopendrium (Cristatum group) when I first saw it on the Fibrex Nursery stand earlier on in... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2011 GARDENING

• Visiting Yellow Book Gardens

  

  On a recent Saturday night, my blogging pal Veronica and I ventured along to an evening Yellow Book open garden in Northampton Park in Islington. It was a real... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2011 GARDENING

• Next Door’s Garden

  Hollyhocks (Alcea) have taken over at Lindsey’s, next door, and it’s a marvelous sight to come home to every day. These Mallows have self seeded all over her... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2011 GARDENING

• The Pleasure of Harvesting and Sharing Fruit

  It’s always an anxious time when you have to leave the allotment for a lengthy absence, but Julia and Simon, at the Shepherds Hill allotment in Crouch End,... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2011 GARDENING

• Yellow Book Gardens

  As the rain pours down and I am forced inside, it’s great to have time to flick through the Yellow Book . (All gardens to visit can also be searched for online... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2011 GARDENING

• Community Veg Growing Project in Gardening Which?

  Yesterday, I spent the whole day with neighbours distributing green growbags (as in pic above) to local residents’ front gardens for this year’s Community veg... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2011 GARDENING

• I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside

  On a recent trip to the Essex coast, I couldn’t but help notice this gorgeous rose-Rosa rugosa ‘Scabrosa’ (kindly identified for me by the lovely people at Pete... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2011 GARDENING

• Iris Fields

  

  Every year Woottens of Wenhaston (in Suffolk) open their Iris Fields for customers to come and be wowed by the rows of colours stretching out before them, and t... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2011 GARDENING

• Chelsea Flower Show 2011

  

  May 29th I found the Chelsea Flower Show hugely enjoyable and inspiring this year. Stealing the show for me was Crug Farm Plants inside the Great Pavillion. Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2011 GARDENING, HOME

• Anti Squirrel Device

  After years of squirrels digging up freshly planted pots in my back garden and then chomping away at newly emerging flower heads for afters, I have built some... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2011 GARDENING

• Cake Sunday (again!)

  Another spring and another ‘Cake Sunday’. This is the second year of our community veg growing project and many neighbours got together last weekend in a front... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2011 GARDENING

• Unseasonal Fruits and Blooms in the Garden (and Time to Plant out Leeks.)

  Cor Blimey! It’s only mid May and I’ve just eaten my first strawberry from the beds in the front garden. It was sweet and delicious and hopefully in a week or... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2011 GARDENING

• Chive Flowers

  As I sit and write, I hear the wonderful pitter patter of rain in the garden. The smell outside is delicious and strangely familiar too after such a long... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2011 GARDENING