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• 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

• Nine Years....

  

  ... nine years! I have now been writing this blog for nine years which seems quite incredible to me. I never intended to write it for nine years, but then I... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2020 GARDENING, HOME

• Tree Following February 2020 - the First Green

  

  Just four weeks ago I stood in front of the snoozing quince trees and neither looked like they were going to wake up soon. This mild Winter we have been... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2020 GARDENING, HOME

• A Hedginess of Quince

  

  When I first moved into this house way back in 2007, I looked at the front of the house and the space underneath the lounge window and thought 'ornamental quinc... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2020 GARDENING, HOME

• End of Month Review January 2020

  

  Sodden, the garden is sodden. I could just leave this month's review as those five words and leave it at that. I had a good few gardening days in the few... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2020 GARDENING, HOME

• A Plantation

  

  I had a farm in Leicester..... no, no, that is not true, I have garden it is just a garden and yet, and yet here I am on the cusp of my own coffee... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2020 GARDENING, HOME

• Irritating Plant of the Month January 2020 - Hanging Violas

  

  I try not to think too hard to choose an irritating plant each month. I tell myself not to force a decision and indeed, if nothing springs easily to mind to le... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2020 GARDENING, HOME

• Good Decisions

  

  Gardening is often about making decisions. Deciding what to plant, when to plant, what to remove, what to let be, do I do this today or tomorrow or ever? Many... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2020 GARDENING, HOME

• A New Year in the Garden

  

  Mid-way into January and it is starting to feel like we have turned the corner into a new year at last. There is still a lot of winter to come, we have not... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2020 GARDENING, HOME

• Beneath the Magnolia

  

  I make no claims to be a tidy gardener. I am apologetically untidy and one of the primary ways it manifests itself this time of year is that I do not remove... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2020 GARDENING, HOME

• Tree Following January 2020 - They Sleep

  

  We are only a few days into January 2020, just on the very start of the decade and the quince trees are currently sleeping. As is my habit I stand in front of... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2020 GARDENING, HOME

• A Tidying of Hellebores

  

  I have often said that the garden often tells me what it wants me to do. I wander around as a prelude to starting gardening most weekends and sometimes I... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2020 GARDENING, HOME