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• 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

• The Tracks of My (cyclamen) Tears

  

  Cyclamen coum might just be one of my very favourite winter flowering plants. This is alongside my other very favourites, but trust me, there are few flowers... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2022 GARDENING, HOME

• Tree Following - February 2022

  

  Here we are in February at last, following one of the longest Januarys ever I am sure. We still have not had the snow I would usually associate with this... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2022 GARDENING, HOME

• Waiting Impatiently

  

  It is that impatient time of year, I am sure you know what I mean. Bulbs and seeds and young plants have been ordered and now they are starting to arrive. A... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2022 GARDENING, HOME

• End of Month Review January 2022

  

  It is well known that January is made up of at least five weeks making it the longest month in the year. This January has been grey and overcast and sunny and... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2022 GARDENING, HOME

• When is a Banana Not a Banana....

  

  It might look like a banana but an Ensete, or an Enset, is the 'false banana' and this plant has recently featured on the BBC news and other news outlets. The... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2022 GARDENING, HOME

• Letter to the Garden January 2022 - Happy New Year?

  

  Dear Garden It hardly feels like a whole year has passed since I wrote to you in January last year and bravely asserted that I hoped 2021 would be a better year... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2022 GARDENING, HOME

• Camellia Rosthorniana 'Cupido' - a Tale in Three and a Half Acts

  

  Act 1 - Prologue That 2014 is now eight years ago is somewhat disturbing, I am sure it was only yesterday but years come and go so swiftly these days. Our stor... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2022 GARDENING, HOME

• A New Evergreen Corner

  

  It has been a while since a new area of the garden has been developed, really quite a while. It would have been even longer but this new Evergreen Corner has... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2022 GARDENING, HOME

• The Little Tannenbaum's Second Christmas

  

  It is now more than one year since I bought my little real Christmas tree. Not much exciting there I hear you say, except I do not buy real Christmas trees as ... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2022 GARDENING, HOME

• Tree Following January 2022 - Tufty

  

  The Quince Brothers are probably at their sleepiest in January. The soft fuzz of their gentle snoozes can be heard in concert with the other snoozing trees in... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2022 GARDENING, HOME

• The Blackberry Garden Plant of the Year Award 2021

  

  Ok, ok, this is a little later than usual - it's been a weird year and I did not forget, no no no...... but I might have been a little distracted....... Now in... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2022 GARDENING, HOME

• End of Month Review December 2021

  

  Here we are at the end of this month and the end of 2021. What a year! December ended on a rare (very rare) sunny day. It has been a grey misty, mizzly,... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2022 GARDENING, HOME

• A Haze of Purple

  

  Christmas Day was a bit of a grey, damp, dank sort of a day and I decided I would go out for a walk in the morning before lunch. This would set the day up... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2021 GARDENING, HOME

• A Day of Fog, Fudge and Reindeer

  

  It has been my habit to go to Calke Abbey with a good friend for their food/gift fair on the last weekend before Christmas for several years now. I am not... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2021 GARDENING, HOME