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• 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

• Tree Following - Envy

  

  Oh dear, the green-eyed monster has come a-calling. It has been tapping on the window for a while but the other day it rang the bell and demanded entry. Why is... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• A Tale of Two Lions

  

  I present to you a tale (tail) of two lions: This magnificent beast guards steps down to the main formal lawn at Crewe Hall, once the home of the Crewe family... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• End of Month Review - November 2014

  

  November has been one of those elastic months; in many ways it seems long time ago since the constant fireworks of Bonfire Night (or should that be nights, it... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• The Pin Oak of Happiness

  

  This story begins several months ago with a visit to Bluebell Arboretum. This visit was organised by the garden group I belong to, the Leicestershire and Rutlan... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Out with the Old

  

  Garden shoes/boots are a key piece of gardening kit.  Above all else when I talk of constant companions in the garden, the shoes I am wearing are pretty much a... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Cape Aloe

  

  It is so hard to write anything about an aloe without making reference to 'Allo 'Allo, but I am not going to any further than just that. Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Greyness

  

  Autumn and winter is a time of bright sharp cold glorious days and those grey, dampish if not torrential rainyish, cloudy days. Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• A Wander Around Stoneywell Cottage, Ulverscroft

  

  Stoneywell Cottage is the first house for the National Trust in Leicestershire and the nearest one to where I live. I was rather excited to read about it when i... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• The Withering

  

  The first serious frost has visited.  That one, you know that one, that one that happens when even though you've been expecting it, it's still a surprise when i... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Tree Following - Yellow

  

  Episode 9 - suddenly Autumn has making itself really felt with the quince tree. There is a distinct flush of yellow as the leaves start to turn. Whilst the... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• The November Cut

  

  It has been a very mild, nay warm, few days.  Everything is still growing and the clock is ticking until the first frost hits.  So yesterday I gave the lawns a... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2014 GARDENING, HOME