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The Blackberry Garden
http://www.blackberrygarden.co.uk/
Blog about my garden, how I feel about it and what inspires me to garden
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A Box of Delights
Or a tray of tantalisation Or the great divide There are few things as enjoyable as a day off from work, when you go to a great garden, listen to an... Read more
Posted on 09 June 2013 GARDENING, HOME -
I Need More Rheum
Rheum is another word for drool, or that watery stuff that sometimes leaks from eyes. It is not a great word. It is also a name of a species of plants and in... Read more
Posted on 06 June 2013 GARDENING, HOME -
The Great Pavilion at Chelsea Flower Show
My final post on the 2013 Chelsea Flower Show, it seems like a long time ago now, nearly a whole two weeks have passed and already eyes are turning to the next... Read more
Posted on 02 June 2013 GARDENING, HOME -
End of Month Review - May 2013
This time last year we had apparently had 'a bit of heatwave', this year we are all talking about the coldest Spring in 50 years. Read more
Posted on 31 May 2013 GARDENING, HOME -
Chelsea Flower Show 2013 - Show Gardens Episode 2
I really wanted to find a way to make this be called 'Attack of the clones', but as I sit down to write this I cannot find the angle. If I fail to, please know... Read more
Posted on 30 May 2013 GARDENING, HOME -
Chelsea Flower Show 2013 - the Show Gardens - Episode 1
One of the main reasons to go to Chelsea Flower Show is to look at the Show Gardens. Here is a quick run around some of them. Let us start with Chris Beardshaw'... Read more
Posted on 26 May 2013 GARDENING, HOME -
A Cock and Bull Story - Chelsea Flower Show 2013
It is the centenary year of the Royal Horticultural Society's Chelsea Flower Show, one of the most famous and most prestigious flower shows in the world. I... Read more
Posted on 23 May 2013 GARDENING, HOME -
The Unfurling
Ok I know I have already done a post or two on tulips, but lets face it, this is their time to shine and don't they just! This one is a new one for me, when I... Read more
Posted on 19 May 2013 GARDENING, HOME -
Much Ado at the Malvern Show
For the first time in many years I went to RHS Malvern Flower Show this year. I went with a non-gardening friend who I had not seen in quite a while so it seeme... Read more
Posted on 16 May 2013 GARDENING, HOME -
A Moment of Beauty
At any set time I have a favourite flower, this might be a time of year or even a time of day, but at that particular moment in time, I can look at something... Read more
Posted on 12 May 2013 GARDENING, HOME -
Call That a Rhododendrum?
The last part of my welsh journey which ends where it started and resided at, Portmeirion. I have written about y Gwyllt previously, it is one of the best bits... Read more
Posted on 09 May 2013 GARDENING, HOME -
The Trial 8 - We Got Through the Winter and into Spring
Its been a while since I did an update on my trialling of plants for Thompson and Morgan, but now that Spring appears to have arrived suddenly there is stuff... Read more
Posted on 05 May 2013 GARDENING, HOME -
End of Month Review - April 2013
After a long, long Winter we finally reached April and the weather finally started to acknowledge that it really is Spring. It is not an understatement to say... Read more
Posted on 30 April 2013 GARDENING, HOME -
I'm Sure It Said It Was a Dinosaur on the Label
More or less this time last year I went to a plant fair at Swines Meadow Farm Nursery in Market Deeping. It was a cold, snowy, windy sort of day so it was very... Read more
Posted on 28 April 2013 GARDENING, HOME -
Garden No: 4 on the Welsh Journey - I Get to Bodnant
Garden number 4 and it is a good one. I think I first visited Bodnant Garden about eight years ago, I tried to work it out and I think it is at least then.... Read more
Posted on 21 April 2013 GARDENING, HOME -
The Eye of Orion
"For some the eye of Orion is the most tranquil place in the universe" (The Five Doctors, 1983). The Five Doctors starts off at the Outlook Tower, part of Plas... Read more
Posted on 18 April 2013 GARDENING, HOME -
A Sunny Sunday Welsh Morning
The sun was shining and glinting off the sea, it was a beautiful morning and I had nothing planned. As I sat drinking tea pondering the meaning of life I starte... Read more
Posted on 14 April 2013 GARDENING, HOME -
Chesney - the Flame That Burned Twice as Brightly
It is with more sadness than I can say I am writing about the death of the beautiful, the fluffy, the charismatic but always idiotic Chesney. His brief life cam... Read more
Posted on 13 April 2013 PETS, SELF EXPRESSION -
Miss Ponsonby, Miss Butler and a Snowy Plas Newydd
or the first of several posts relating to the recent Wales trip So, I visit Wales often, specially North Wales, even more specifically Portmeirion. I tell peopl... Read more
Posted on 11 April 2013 GARDENING, HOME -
End of Month Review - March 2013
Crikey March has been cold, very cold. There has been snow, some sun and cold and snow. Apparently it is the coldest March since 1962, this is a much quoted fac... Read more
Posted on 31 March 2013 GARDENING, HOME