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• An Evening with Ron Finley

  

  I recently had the opportunity to go and listen to Ron Finley talk about gardening from (for me) a different perspective. Sometimes saying something is differen... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• End of Month Review - September 2014

  

  September has been officially (or allegedly, take your pick) the driest September for fifty years in Leicestershire.  I have not lived in Leicester for fifty... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• A Visit to Haddonstone Show Gardens

  

  It was a lovely sunny late summer Sunday and I had a few days off from work coming up, so I felt I could spend an hour or so wandering around an NGS Open Garden. Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Gardening Express Plant Trial

  

  I have been a customer of Gardening Express a couple of times, most recently I bought a rather fine Ensete ventricosum Maurelli and a Brugmansia suavolens plena... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• The Aftermath of the Storm

  

  I have just spent a very enjoyable week in North Wales which of course included a visit to Portmeirion.  We were very lucky as the weather was amazing for all... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• A Brief Affair with Asters

  

  I have grown perennial asters for several years now and I love their height, their boldness and their colour.  I did not dislike annual asters, I just completel... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• The Tree of Damocles

  

  This story began almost a year ago.  Well actually no, it really began almost exactly 90 years ago when a clause was agreed on the land where my house is built... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Something to Soothe the Seven Year Itch

  

  Except I haven't got the seven year itch just yet, though there is a whole twelve months to go until the seventh year is done.  September 10th is the seventh... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Tree Following, Its Beginning to Turn

  

  or Episode 7 I am now seven episodes and therefore seven months into following my quince tree and now I can that it is starting to turn. Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• A Rainy Day at Kiftsgate Court Gardens

  

  It is many years since I visited Kiftsgate Court Gardens but it was somewhere I wanted to go back to as it had made quite an impression on me. Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Gardens2you Gift Review

  

  To be perfectly clear on this, Gardens2 you sent me some free gifts and they did say that I did not have to write about them if I did not want to. Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• End of Month Review - August 2014

  

  It seems hard to believe we are three-quarters of the way through the year already, but here we are at the end of month eight and summer is almost done. The... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• A Wander Around the Langtons

  

  Ok I am going to deal with this straight away, yes, an afternoon with Ray, Deirdre and Tracey.  Can we move on now? To the southeast of Leicester there are a... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Lilac Squirrels

  

  Or a visit to Avondale Nursery. The a week or so ago I went to visit Avondale Nursery, which I had heard of yet never visited despite it not being that far... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• The Old Horts Do Euridge

  

  Little did  I know when I joined the Old Horts network a couple of months ago that it would lead me to meet such great people and go to such interesting places. Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Pumpkins and Pom-poms

  

  I recently went on a visit to Calke Abbey, I have visited many many times and yet I never seem to get tired of it.  There is always something that catches my... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• A Visit to the Thompson and Morgan Trial Grounds

  

  The other day I received an email that I can only equate to being like finding one of Wonka's golden tickets, it was an invitation to visit the Thompson and... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Contained

  

  I have always grown quite a few things in pots.  In previous gardens this has been due to the garden not being big enough for hold all I wanted to grow and... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Tree Following - the Tree Grows

  

  and so we reach August and it is time to go and stare at my Quince Tree to think about what to write about this month.  I realised as I stood there and looked a... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• The Teabag Update

  

  April seems a while ago now, but way back those couple of months ago I wrote a post about some trial plants I had been sent by B Q about their Teabag Technology... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2014 GARDENING, HOME