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• 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

• Tree Following - the First of the Sleepy Months

  

  We have now reached the 11th of these posts in the Tree Following meme (thanks Lucy). The quince tree has finally decided to go to sleep. It cannot quite totall... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• TEG "Buy the Right Garden" - Another View

  

  The Christmas break is one of my favourite breaks in the year as for a few precious days I can properly relax.  The down side to this is that it is not a good... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• End of Month Review - December 2014

  

  2014 is ending as cold and frosty.  The last few days has seen deep overnight frosts and even a smattering of snow on Boxing Day. Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• A Show Garden for the Malvern Spring Festival - The Genetic Conservation Garden

  

  At the darkest point of winter there are many things to look forward to in the new year, not in the least the return of the garden shows. Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Whilst My Cactus Gently Weeps

  

  I have a question or two for you - can you see anything slightly disturbing in this picture? No? How about this one below then? (hint, look at the words 'glowin... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Time is Fleeting

  

  What an apt thought for this the shortest day, time is fleeting (with due reference to Richard O'Brien, Little Nell and Patricia Quinn). Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Evergreen

  

  Sometimes it is only when I start writing about something that I remember something else totally different.  This happened when I sat down to write this post,... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• The Driveway Project - There Has Been Progress

  

  Way back in May I wrote about starting work on planting up the driveway to my house. This has been a pretty much ignored piece of land since moving here... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Alysumm

  

  or - do not under-rate me Alysumm is one of the first plants I learned the name of when I was a child. My mother used to line the pathway through the front... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2014 GARDENING, HOME