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• End of Month Review - October 2014

  

  October has seen the much needed return of rain and the arrival of Autumn. It has also been a mild month, as I write this the last day of the month is due to... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• The Blackberry Garden Plant of the Year Award 2014

  

  This is the second time I have made this award so I think I can call this now an annual award. Last year the award took place in later November so I might be... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• 100 More Muscari

  

  It is bulb planting time of year, a time of year I enjoy very much.  I regard each bulb planted as a promise that Spring will return.  For the last couple of... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• An October Garden

  

  In my Autumn garden I was fain To mourn among my scattered roses; Alas for that last rosebud which uncloses To Autumn's languid sun and rain When all the world... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• The Owly Service

  

  Or a parliament of owls You know when you go to garden centres and various other worthy outlets you sometimes see those stone owls? Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• The Prairie Borders - Year Four

  

  At this time of year my Prairie Borders are at their peak.  They were a bit of a gamble on my part when I first planned them as I had no idea if they would work. Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• A Visit to Plas Cadnant

  

  Despite having regular holidays to North Wales for many years now, I have only been to Anglesey once.  It is a beautiful island and I decided during my recent... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Tree Following - the Quince Pauses

  

  So here we are, episode 8 of tree following the quince.  I had expected more change in the quince this time as we are now in October, yet I look at the... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Rocks and Crevices

  

  Sometimes somethings just suddenly become noticeable.  They become the focus of attention when you have never really noticed them before.  This is my attempt... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• 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