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• Free the Magnolia One!

  

  Or I did some pruning I should have done ages ago. When I first saw my current home, when I very first saw it, the magnolia in the front garden was flowering. ... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2024 GARDENING, HOME

• Irritating Plant of the Month - an Apology to the Christmas Cyclamen

  

  It has been a while since I have written about an irritating plant. Regulars readers will know that the irritation is more at my poor gardening skills rather... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2024 GARDENING, HOME

• Letter to the Garden - January 2024

  

  Dear Garden Well here we are in a new year and I want to say, a new storm. As I write Storm Isha is gusting towards us. Apparently the storm naming year... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2024 GARDENING, HOME

• Colour in the Winter Garden

  

  As I write this it is deep winter outside. The temperature dropped to -6 last night which is very cold for here in the mild middle. As ever when it gets to... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2024 GARDENING, HOME

• The Blackberry Tales 15 - A Snowdrop Mystery

  

  It is the time of year for mysteries, the dark nights and grey murky days and festive televsion seems to groan with Agatha Christie dramatisations and other suc... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2024 GARDENING, HOME

• Cold

  

  It is cold, we have reached the minus temperatures at night and the barely above freezing temperatures during the day. I know, I know: what we think of as... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2024 GARDENING, HOME

• Tree Following January 2024 - Ouch

  

  I said I was going to do it and I have. There has been a pruning. There has been prunings. Quince Major and Quince Minor have been pruned. Now I am not... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2024 GARDENING, HOME

• End of Month Review December 2023

  

  I think it is fair to say that December was rainy. Gosh so much rain, rain that has continued pretty much unabated into the first days of January. I never... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2024 GARDENING, HOME

• Camellia Carnage

  

  Then as I was wandering the garden the other day a space in the garden that I had not identified as a serious space, waved at me and said: "Wouldn't a camellia... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• The Blackberry Garden Plant of the Year Award 2023

  

  Now in its tenth year, it is time for the Blackberry Garden 'Plant of the Year' 2023 award. As ever this competition has been hotly contested by plants who had... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• My Little Tannenbaum is Celebrating Its Third Christmas

  

  It is now three years since I was gifted a mini Christmas tree from Bloom Wild. I am under no obligation to write this post but I am so fond of this tree... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• Starting off Christmas at Calke

  

  Regular readers will know that my Christmas begins at Calke Abbey when I meet up with a good friend and we peruse the Christmas Fair. The Fairs vary in dates... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• Book Reviews: Briliant English Gardens by Clive Nichols and Venetian Gardens by...

  

  These two books have to be two of the most beautiful gardening books I have ever seen. It was impossible for me not to review them. I was given these books bu... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• Letter to the Garden December 2023 - All Will Be Well

  

  How are you? Rather wet and soggy after snow, ice and rain. You are very muddy but I am getting on with weeding and sorting when I can. You do feel a... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• Tree Following - December 2023

  

  Dear all, it has happened, The surviving quince has succombed to gravity (aka mavity) and has fallen. The birds had already had a peck or two and I will leav... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• Book Review: RHS Bridgewater by Phil McCann and Chatsworth: the Gardens and the...

  

  I really enjoy books about gardens I have visited and loved. So I could not help but revel in delight about these two new books about two such gardens. I was... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• End of Month Review November 2023

  

  and suddenly, after a wet fairly mild November, the month endeth with frost and cold. Winter is coming screaming in with the first frost and the first sleet,... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• Book Review - Hortus Curious by Michael Perry

  

  I have known Micheal Perry for some years now, we have followed each other on X/ Twitter for a long (long) time and we have met at various gardening events ove... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• A Year Late - a Wander Around Brimham Rocks

  

  On the wet/frozen days when gardening is not possible, I can usually be found dressmaking or knitting or sometimes doing some embroidery. In November I wend... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• Book Review: Plants of the Qur'an by Shahina A. Ghazanfar and Sue Wickison

  

  There are a lot of gardening books out there that cover all different aspects of gardening and plants. There is always room for one more and always the... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2023 GARDENING, HOME