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• End of Month Review March 2020

  

  It is fair to say that March has been a bit of a month and the garden has carried on regardless. I am going to start this month's review of the garden with a... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2020 GARDENING, HOME

• Book Review - The Secret Lives of Garden Bees by Jean Vernon

  

  Jean Vernon is, like I am, a member of the Garden Media Guild and we have met a few times on some of the Guild garden visits. When I heard that she had writte... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2020 GARDENING, HOME

• How We Can Help Support Closed Nurseries, Gardens and Gardeners

  

  Never has the word 'unprecedented' been used so much as it is at the moment. We are living in the strangest and darkest times for decades. Public places... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2020 GARDENING, HOME

• What a Difference a Week Makes

  

  In so, so many ways, what a difference there has been in the last week. For the garden it feels like it has stepped up a gear to welcome spring. Magnolia... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2020 GARDENING, HOME

• Fantastic Day

  

  This year it has been difficult to achieve a lot in the garden so far as it has felt like it has rained every weekend. When the rain pauses I rush out to do... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2020 GARDENING, HOME

• The Last Day out

  

  Some weeks ago I booked to go on a tour of RHS Bridgewater, the new RHS garden near Manchester. I have visited previously back in October on a very rainy day.... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2020 GARDENING, HOME

• To Kindness

  

  There is no avoiding that we are currently in dark times. The news is invariably alarming and it is not unreasonable to believe that it is not going to get... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2020 GARDENING, HOME

• The Questions - Sam Ovens, Garden Designer: Animal Health Trust Garden

  

  RHS Chelsea Flower Show will soon be upon us. Before we have time to blink an eye hoards of people will descend upon the site and the gardens and exhibits... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2020 GARDENING, HOME

• Book Review - How to Get Kids Gardening with the Skinny Jean Gardener by Lee...

  

  I was recently invited to attend the book launch of this great new book from Lee Connelly AKA the Skinny Jean Gardener. I was delighted to attend the book... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2020 GARDENING, HOME

• Tree Following March 2020

  

  March already, it is March already! How did this happen? I know, like it always does: one day at a time..... Meanwhile at Quince Central... Life is... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2020 GARDENING, HOME

• A Winter Walk at Waterperry Gardens

  

  It appears that it is six years since I last visited Waterperry Gardens, six years! I feel more than slightly ashamed as it is a garden worth revisiting. I ha... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2020 GARDENING, HOME

• Book Review - Seasonal Plant Dyes by Alicia Hall

  

  It is always a good moment when I am offered a book to review that is right up my street. Seasonal Plant Dyes is just such a book. I have not paid for this... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2020 GARDENING, HOME

• End of Month Review February 2020

  

  It has rained. A lot. So much rain that I am as tired of writing about it raining as you are reading what I have written about it raining. The long and the... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2020 GARDENING, HOME

• Irritating Plant of the Month February 2020 - Oh How the Mighty Fall.

  

  I considered long and hard before deciding on this month's plant of annoyance. I realised that it had self-nominated as it was the plant I stood (squatted) in... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2020 GARDENING, HOME

• The Questions - Tamsin Westhorpe: Author The Diary of a Modern Country Gardener

  

  It is nearly three years since I visited Stockton Bury Gardens where Tamsin Westhorpe gardens. The gardens made a big impact on me and I am slightly horrified ... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2020 GARDENING, HOME

• Collatoral Damage

  

  Storm Ciara blasted through the UK recently. At the start of the storm I was on a sewing weekend in West Yorkshire and we had to evacuate late Sunday morning... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2020 GARDENING, HOME

• Snowdrops at Easton Walled Gardens

  

  It feels like at the moment the stormy weather is doing its best to keep us indoors and prevent snowdrop garden visiting. As the weather starts to lull it is... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2020 GARDENING, HOME

• Book Review: The Gardener's Travel Companion to England by Janelle McCulloch

  

  I usually start book reviews saying that I have been sent the book or bought the book - this time dear reader I won the book. I won it through a Twitter... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2020 GARDENING, HOME

• Snowdrops at Belvoir Castle

  

  Belvoir Castle has been on the horizon of my life for as long as I can remember. It sits, magnificently, on the edge of the Vale of Belvoir, able to be seen... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2020 GARDENING, HOME

• Snowdrop Time in the Garden

  

  I find it quite difficult not to be obsessed with snowdrops at this time of year. I have quite a few in the garden these days; several years of incrementally... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2020 GARDENING, HOME