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• For a Few Snowdrops More: Back to Thenford

  

  Last year I visited Thenford for the first time. It is rather a special place and I knew that I would want to return. It is not open very often and sadly most... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• End of the Month Review - February 2018

  

  February has been cold, really cold.  As I write this the winds are blowing in from Siberia as we are have falls of snow in bitterly cold blasts. Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• Wednesday Metre - the Thenford Elephant

  

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  Posted on 28 February 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• Book Review: Wild Mocktails and Healthy Cocktails by Lottie Muir

  

  I was asked if I would like to review this new book from Lottie Muir: Wild Mocktails and Healthy Cocktails.  I was interested in the title and so I happily... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• Irritating Plant of the Month February- Oh My Poor(ly) Coronilla

  

  This month is not about an irritating plant, I am not irritated by it, I am lamenting for my Coronilla glauca citrina. I am pretty sure it is dead. Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• Snowdrops at Evenley Woods

  

  You know when you think you did something maybe two years ago and it turns out it was nearly four, well, it turns out it is four years since I visited Evenley... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• Product Review: Earthcycle Compost Soil Conditioner and Cow Compost

  

  I was asked some weeks ago if I would like to receive some samples of compost from Earthcycle. As I am sure you would hope from a company with such a name, thei... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• A Wintery Ellicar Gardens

  

  Many non-gardening people I know struggle to understand why I visit gardens during the winter. Indeed many gardens close during this period so that they can hav... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• Snowdrops and More at Hodsock Priory

  

  Visiting Hodsock Priory at snowdrop time has become an annual event for me and it is one that I enjoy more every time I visit.  There is something about visitin... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• A Sunday Morning Break in the Weather

  

  This winter feels like it has been colder than recent years.  We seem to have had more constant cold, more frost and more sleet and snow. Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• Tree Following February 2018 - a Glimpse

  

  The nights are getting shorter, or to put it even more positively, the days are now definitely getting longer.  To celebrate this the quince trees are stirring. Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• Snowdrops at Holme Pierrepont Hall

  

  February is a funny month, not a laughing out loud funny month, but a funny peculiar month.  It is short but feels long.  The days get noticeably longer, yet... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• End of Month Review - January 2018

  

  January, is a cold unforgiving month.  It has at least one week more than any other month as it drags itself slowly through the beginning moments of the year. Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• Poor Tom's a Cold

  

  or the story of a day of snow We were not forecast snow on this day, it was meant to be raining, but it was colder than expected, colder than hoped: "Poor... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• Irritating Plant of the Month January 2018 - the Honeymoon Ends

  

  It did not take long did it for me to find this plant irritating: the Tibouchina urvilleana I bought only four weeks ago. I may, of course, just be... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• Squelch

  

  To say that the recent rain and snow has left the garden rather wet is to completely misrepresent the word wet.  Admittedly the garden is not flooded, thankfull... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• Coniferous Pepper Pots

  

  I remember clearly the first time I saw a conifer tree 'smoke' with pollen blowing on the breeze during spring.  I remain fascinated when I see this happening... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• Outset - off Plan, En Route

  

  If you listen you can hear it, listen, today barely a whisper, a sotto voce murmur of what needs to be; other days the voice is raised, urgent, with a hint of... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• Cold, Wet and Grey

  

  January is cold, wet and grey, who are not the three lost gnomes from Santa's grotto, or a lesser known music hall act along the lines of Wilson, Kepple and... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2018 GARDENING

• Tree Following January 2018 - Buddy

  

  All in the garden is totally saturated at the moment following day after day of on and off rain.  We are just about to head into a very cold period and there... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2018 GARDENING, HOME