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• Book Review - Outwitting Squirrels by Anne Wareham

  

  It is hard to pass by a book that promises 101 cunning stratagems to outwit squirrels and other garden pests and nuisances.  Anne Wareham's latest book,... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• A Pocket Full of Seeds

  

  At last, the season has well and truly turned, frost is not such a threat (not impossible, but less likely) and the soil is starting to warm up. Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• A Meandering of Muscari

  

  Way back in October I wrote a post about planting 100 muscari in the Wild Garden. I explained in my original post that I had been hugely influenced by various... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Tree Following - the Quince-whisperer

  

  One of the great joys of following a tree for more than a year is looking at what stage it was at this time last year.  As I took the photographs this month I... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• End of Month Review - March 2015

  

  March has not been that warm this year, it has had quite a few frosts and at times has been down right chilly.  The upshot of this is that I think the season... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• A Day at the Hardy Plant Society AGM

  

  I have recently joined the Hardy Plant Society . There is a good local group nearby who put on an interesting programme of speakers and there are usually some... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Preview of RHS Malvern Spring Show Festival Gardens

  

  Towards the end of last year I wrote a post about a crowd funded garden that was being proposed for the RHS Malvern Spring Festival. I am pleased to say that th... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Butterfly Conservation - New Membership Offer

  

  Now that Spring is definitely upon us the insects are starting to emerge in the garden.  Looking out for the first butterfly is always an exciting time. Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• The Quince Hedge (again)

  

  I have given a couple of updates already on my quince hedge which is made up of Chaenomeles x superba 'Crimson and Gold'.  The first update is here in 2011... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• I Was Tempted

  

  The past couple of weeks have been a little busy, I am holding off from seed sowing as it is still a bit early but there has been some plant buying. Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• The Snowdrop Odyssey Ends at Home

  

  I have made a few snowdrop visits this year and I have thoroughly enjoyed my travels.  I am very fond of snowdrops as they are a sign of winter coming to an end... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• The Snowdrop Odyssey Continues - Calke and Dimminsdale

  

  The snowdrop season will soon be over, but there was time for another couple of visits.  I have visited Calke Abbey many times for getting on for thirty years. Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• International Women's Day - the Garden Celebrates

  

  March 8th is International Women's Day and today I celebrate this by thinking about my garden. My roses celebrate some amazing women: Such as Gertrude Jekyll,... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• March 2015 Tree Following - We Begin Again

  

  Here we are in March again, a full year on from when I first started following my quince tree. I looked back to last year to see whether I think it is further o... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Launde Abbey Snowdrops

  

  Or a bit of Leicestershire Wolf Hall.... Lets face it, in terms of television highlights of the year, even though we are just into the third month, Wolf Hall wa... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• End of Month Review - February 2015

  

  Whoosh, that was February, a month not usually known for its speed but this year blink and you probably missed it. It was cold, frosty, a little rainy and... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Garden Press Event

  

  I decided the other day to go on a bit of an adventure.  Well in my small world it was an adventure as it was something I had not previously done and it was dow... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Buckminster Snowdrops

  

  I appear to be on a snowdrop odyssey this year so when offered the chance to wander around some unknown to me snowdrops it felt churlish to refuse (especially a... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Snowdrop Time at Easton Walled Gardens

  

  I am enjoying myself very much this year visiting several snowdrop gardens.  Easton Walled Gardens is always a favourite this time of year as each garden has it... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Little Ponton Hall - the Aconite Sea

  

  Little Ponton Hall is about an hour's journey from where I live and whilst I had heard of it, I had never visited previously. It is not open very often but it... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2015 GARDENING, HOME