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• Product Review - Outdoor Baby Bio Flower and Shrubs Week 2

  

  Last week I started the Outdoor Baby Bio Flower and Shrub challenge. The challenge is meant to take four weeks so we are now, I suppose, half way. So how are... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• Hortus Romam 4 - Villa Farnese

  

  Villa Farnese, aka Villa Caprarolo I think was about thirty minutes or so from Villa Lante, to be honest we were all talking (hard to imagine I know) so I was... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• Product Review - Gardman Nature Trellis

  

  I was contacted by Gardman and asked I would like to review a product for them.  After a bit of thought I chose their Nature Trellis. Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• Hortus Romam 3 - Villa Lante

  

  Day three and its the big day, the one where we visit three gardens:  Villa Lante, Villa Farnese and Bomarzo.  I shall tell you now I was probably most excited... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• Product Review - Outdoor Baby Bio: Flowers and Shrubs - Part 1

  

  I have been asked to trial the new Baby Bio made by Bayer that is for outdoor use, which is called Outdoor Baby Bio Shrubs and Flowers. Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• Hortus Romam 2 - Hadrian's Villa

  

  Day two of the Roman adventure took us to Villa Adriana in Tivoli.  I had seen Monty visit this place on his Italian Garden programme and I was looking forward... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• Book Review: A History of Kitchen Gardening by Susan Campbell

  

  A History of Kitchen Gardening has been reissued as an update to the 1996 version.  The reason for the reissue is that Susan Campbell is now able to talk about... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• Hortus Romam 1 - Arrival

  

  I have recently returned from a garden-visiting holiday around Rome.  Yes this does mean several posts about 'what I did on my holidays' so I would apologise... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• A Quick Run out to a Plant Fair

  

  An hour or so spent at a plant fair is rarely time wasted.  Even if no plants are purchased the excuse to wander out and catch up with a friend is worth it... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• Tree Following - May Be Or May Not......

  

  So we have reached May.  Before we got to May we kept having frost.  Sometimes quite a bit of frost. I worry for my quincelets. The quince blossom is now... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• The Clivia

  

  I recently mused about my lack of owning a Clivia, despite wanting one every time I see one; worse than that: despite seeing one for sale at a good price last... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• End of Month Review - April 2016

  

  April has been really quite cold and there has been a few frosts.  Whilst this is not unusual, it is still worrying to have frost this late and it means that th... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• Watch Your Back! Charlie Dimmock Talks About Sunscreen and Answers The Questions

  

  I was approached to see if I would help promote the campaign that Charlie Dimmock is fronting urging gardeners and particularly male gardeners in their 50s to... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• Watching the Edgeworthia

  

  I have been fairly obsessed with Edgeworthia chrysantha since the moment I first saw one.  They have the most amazing scent and flower early enough in the year... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• An April Plant Fair

  

  You know that moment when you realise you have been visiting somewhere for over five years and had not really thought it was that long? Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• Thompson and Morgan Jazzy Grow Bag Challenge 1 - Bagging up

  

  Thompson and Morgan are running a Jazzy Grow Bag Challenge this year and I agreed to have a go. They sent me two tubers and two bags to grow them in, plus a... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• For a Few Muscari More

  

  The year before last I planted 100 muscari to create a stream of blue running through the Wild Garden. The 100 were Muscari armeniacum and they came up well... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• Product Review: Copely Garden Hose Pipe: RHS 'Everflow'

  

  This review starts with a confession.  I was asked to review this hose months ago, several months ago.  I was sent the hose and then it started to rain and it... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• Stoneywell, Where Daffodils Are the New Snowdrops

  

  I do love daffodils, I always have, even as a child their cheerful beauty is something that has always delighted me.  I plant some every year, some in the... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• Spring at Baddesley Clinton

  

  I am very fond of Spring flowers, I am very fond of many flowers, but the early flowers that pave the way for the height of the growing season are to be... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2016 GARDENING, HOME