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• Letter to the Garden April 2022

  

  Dear Garden, it feels like ages since I last wrote to you and yet it was only in March. The world seems busier, more loud, more unpleasant and cynical than it... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2022 GARDENING, HOME

• Book Review: The Crevice Garden by Kenton Seth and Paul Spriggs

  

  As a child growing up in the 60s, a good rock garden was very much the thing to have. It was very trendy and every good garden would have one. A crevice garde... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2022 GARDENING, HOME

• Dandelions - I Have a Few, but Then Again.....

  

  Of course some plants are very reliable, you know that they will be there, doing their thing, year after year and this reliability is celebrated. We need this... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2022 GARDENING, HOME

• Don't Panic!

  

  Ok I am panicking a bit, quite a lot actually, I am trying to keep to tell myself there is still plenty of time, and yet..... The garden is feeling out of... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2022 GARDENING, HOME

• Tree Following - April 2022

  

  April has started rather frosty, which is quite a concern bearing in mind that the Quince Brothers like to blossom early. The blossom is at the 'on the cusp'... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2022 GARDENING, HOME

• Book Review: The Creative Gardener by Adam Frost

  

  There is something very relatable and accessible about Adam Frost. He has the perfect combination of being incredibly knowledgeable and having the ability to... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2022 GARDENING, HOME

• End of the Month Review March 2022

  

  Well it all seemed to be going so well didn't it? We had warmer sunnier days and then BAM! just to remind us that Spring is still in its early days and frost i... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2022 GARDENING, HOME

• Mea Culpa and Redemption

  

  It is a foolish person who buys a plant that they know is going to get really huge and then worries when it gets really huge. Dear reader, I am that fool. ... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2022 GARDENING, HOME

• Magnolia Jade Lamp

  

  Regular readers may recall my 'last day out' before the lockdown was to the new RHS Bridgewater gardens near Manchester. I went with my daughter and we knew... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2022 GARDENING, HOME

• A Brief Visit to Barnsdale

  

  I have visited Barnsdale Gardens a few times as it is not that far away from where I live, so I was surprised to see that I have not written about it previously... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2022 GARDENING, HOME

• Book Reviews: William Barron by Tamsin Liddle and Peter Robinson, Wild Fruits,...

  

  I was asked if I wanted to review these two books and for two different reasons I jumped at the chance. I have not paid for these books, nor have I been paid t... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2022 GARDENING, HOME

• Letter to the Garden March 2022

  

  Dear Garden It feels like Spring is starting to spring doesn't it? We are having some milder days and milder nights though the threat of frost is still with us... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2022 GARDENING, HOME

• Book Reviews: RHS Nature: A Magical Journey Through the Year by Sara Conway and...

  

  Finding good books to encourage interest in gardening and nature is always a challenge and something I know many parents and carers of children are keen to find... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2022 GARDENING, HOME

• Tree Following - March 2022

  

  It is starting to get a bit exciting now with the Quince Brothers. They are breaking out of their winter dormacy and heading towards leafage. The slightly... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2022 GARDENING, HOME

• Book Review: A Guide to Medieval Gardens by Michael Brown

  

  I find the history of gardens fascinating. By their nature gardens are a fleeting thing, we develop and change them, ownership changes and fashions come and go... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2022 GARDENING, HOME

• End of Month Review February 2022

  

  I usually think that February is one of the longest months of the year, not in the amount of actual days, obvs, but it just seems an age to get through. This... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2022 GARDENING, HOME

• Just a Little Bit of Hope

  

  Sometimes you just need that little bit of hope don't you? It does not have to be big - it does not have to be about something incredibly important, it just ha... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2022 GARDENING, HOME

• Eunice - is That You?

  

  On Friday my part of the UK was under an amber weather warning in relation to the oncoming Storm Eunice. In some parts of the country there was a red weather... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2022 GARDENING, HOME

• Letter to the Garden - February 2022

  

  Dear Garden, Or should I say Dear Prudence as that is the ear-worm that has been wandering my head for a few days now. There I was sewing listening to a... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2022 GARDENING, HOME

• Modern Art, Where Art Thou?

  

  Flipping snowdrops - they are a flipping pain in the flipping neck. Ok, maybe not all them, but most of the expensive flippers and particularly you Modern... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2022 GARDENING, HOME