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• 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

• Tree Following - An Anxious Wait

  

  So I was already worried that the quince tree might have been peaking too early.  Blossom was forming very early this year and we are not out of the frost perio... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• A Spring Visit to Rousham

  

  I tend to think that Rousham gardens in hushed respectful tones, not in a Voldemort kind of way, but out of respect.  It is talked of as the garden of gardens... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• End of Month Review - March 2016

  

  March was probably the driest month so far this year, until in recent days we have had the return of the rain and some blustery weather and some (now getting a... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• Product Review: Solar Path Lights and Party Festoon from Festive Lights

  

  I like to have lights in my garden but I do not like to have electric cables.  This means if you visit my garden you will see that  I use solar lights and over... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• Graveyard Flowers

  

  The other day I was reading an article in the Guardian written by Alys Fowler about what to plant on a damp grave. This coincided with a recent conversation I... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• An Afternoon at Canon's Ashby

  

  I first visited Canon's Ashby about twenty years ago so when the chance came to visit again I thought it was probably about time that I did. Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• A Capite Ad Columbam

  

  I have a fondness for statues, I like looking at them and pondering.  So many times I visit large country houses and there is a lion eating a dragon on a... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• Book Review - Living on One Acre Or Less by Sally Morgan

  

  I was invited to attend the launch of Sally Morgan's new book 'Living on One Acre or Less' published by Green Books. The book was launched at the Edible Garden... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• The Quinquennial of the Quince Hedge

  

  Way back when in 2011, when this blog was quite new and the garden was five years younger, I wrote a short piece on the quince hedge I planted in front of the... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2016 GARDENING, HOME