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• Plantify Plant Trial - Update 1

  

  I have been lucky enough to have been asked to trial some plants for Plantify.co.uk I have received six plants in total from them in two batches. Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• The Blackberry Tales 6 - X Marks the Spot

  

  My garden is a constant source of amazement and wonder to me. Not only does it contain the things I have planted and planned but then there are the... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Looking at Show Gardens Can Be Like a Spaghetti Western

  

  or part 2 of an Unexpected Journey As I explained in a previous post, I won a ticket to go to Gardeners World Live at the NEC, a show I have not visited in... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• An Unexpected Journey

  

  I have not been to Gardeners World Live for about three years I think. This has been mainly due to work commitments, (I cannot keep taking time off to go to... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• A Touch of the Orient

  

  "A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust. Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• 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