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• Three Gardens

  

  "From December to March, there are for many of us three gardens -the garden outdoors,the garden of pots and bowls in the house,and the garden of the mind's... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Berry Deficit

  

  I do not have enough berries, I feel bereft of berries, I need more berries in my garden.I do have the wonderful Sorbus Cashermeiriana which I bought last year... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Orion - the Winter Maker

  

  I wrote about The Eye of Orion some time ago, which apart from the quotation in which it appears, was the only mention of Orion in that post. This is odd... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Nearing the Boundary of Mordor

  

  Here we go, we are now in December and Winter is knocking at the windows asking to get started. We have had a few frosts now and the pond has started to ice... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• End of Month Review - November 2013

  

  So we reach November, the end of the year is rushing towards us. November has been fairly standard this year, its been foggy, rainy (very rainy at times) moment... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Autumn Revelations of Structure

  

  One thing I rarely manage to do is to visit the same garden more than once at different periods in the year. This is usually because if they are at a distance... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• The Blackberry Garden Plant of the Year Award

  

  I know its only mid November, but there is no point in putting this off, its been fairly clear all year which plant or group of plants was going to win the... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• A Visit to Bristol Botanic Garden

  

  I had a recent visit to Bristol for work purposes, the weather was cold but beautifully sunny and it was too good an opportunity to waste, so I took a detour... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Sweet Peas for the Windowsill

  

  Hold on a minute you say, its November, why are you talking about windowsill flowers now? Its not a 'how to sow sweet peas' lesson is it? Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Less Than Half but Better Than Nothing

  

  You know when a leaflet pops through your door that makes you think, oh yes, that is what I should do? Well I received a Whichford Pottery through the post... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Did the Earth Move......?

  

  No, but my aster did. I've written before that it took me a while to work out that if I had planted something in the wrong place that I could dig it up and... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Plantify Trial - Update 3, Rosa Millie

  

  I had not really expected to write an update to this trial at this time of year, this is because I had already thought that Rosa Millie had passed the moment... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• The Blackberry Tales 8 - The Haunting

  

  I see him out the corner of my eye, I say him, but actually there is little definition it is more of a shape or a blur that just moves as I turn my head to look. Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• A Tree Quest

  

  I work in the middle of a very large city, surrounded by tower blocks and busy roads often filled with stationary traffic. I am lucky that where I work has a... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• A Surfeit of Coccinellidae

  

  You say Coccinellidae I say ladybird, that beloved beetle of nursery rhymes and cutesy pictures. You have to love a ladybird, we all know they eat greenfly and... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• As One Door Closes....

  

  ......another opens At the moment there is still a fair amount of colour in the garden, I still have dahlias and roses and even some late sweet peas flowering... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Ada Lovelace Day

  

  Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (1815 - 1852), is more often known as Ada Lovelace, she was the only legitimate child of Lord Byron. Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• The Blackberry Tales 7 - Bread

  

  A couple of months ago I found a brain-like fungus growing in the vegetable border. On closer inspection it turned out to be a couple of white cobs. Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Losing Our Parks and Botanic Gardens Matters

  

  Our parks, arboretums and botanic gardens are in trouble, not all of them but in particular the public funded and the charity/third sector funded ones are... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• The Shape of Things to Come

  

  or a bit of border extension Its that time of year when I remove more of the lawn and extend and reshape the borders in the garden. Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2013 GARDENING, HOME