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• 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

• Thoughts on the Forthcoming Show Gardens at the 2015 RHS Chelsea Flower Show Par...

  

  This is the second of my posts looking at the forthcoming show gardens for the 2015 RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Of course this is only focussing on the main show... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Tree Following - Episode 12, the Circle is Almost Complete

  

  I have now been following this quince tree for twelve months.  In that time it has given me the beauty of foliage and blossom and the promise only a quincelet... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• A Day at Hodsock Priory

  

  I was very lucky recently to receive an invitation to visit Hodsock Priory in Blyth, Nottinghamshire to have a tour of the garden and see the launch of the... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• A Leicester Groundhog Day

  

  February 2nd is Groundhog Day.  Now I think I am not alone in the UK in not knowing much about Groundhog Day until with 1993 film of the same name, directed by... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• End of Month Review January 2015

  

  Here we are at the end of the first month of the year already.  January has been a strange month, it often feels rather long and yet this year in some ways it... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Thoughts on the Forthcoming Show Gardens at the 2015 RHS Chelsea Flower Show Par...

  

  The countdown to the 2015 RHS Chelsea Flower Show is upon us. This is an event I am very fond of and can probably say that I look forward to it more than any... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• The Trial - 11 Its Been a While

  

  or the winter update. Yes it has been quite a while since I last did a proper update on my Thompson and Morgan trial plants. Funny how time just slips by when... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• The Writing of the Lists

  

  or seed buying time It is the time of year to be staring longingly at seed catalogues, making lists and over buying. Yes the depth of winter is the perfect... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• The Question of the Day

  

  It is the time of frost and rain which limits the time I can spend in the garden.  Rain means staying indoors and frozen ground means I can get outside but ther... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Adamantine Doors

  

  O winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou built thy dark Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs Nor bend thy pillars with... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• It Begins

  

  and we're off, there has been plant purchases, there has been planting - I can declare the 2015 season begun! The other day I went to a talk at my local Hardy... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2015 GARDENING, HOME