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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
LATEST ARTICLES ( 1419 )
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The Southport Chronicles 1 - Arrival
or "Etiez-vous à Sedan? I have recently been on a trip to Southport. There was a specific reason for this trip which will become clear in the third and final... Read more
Posted on 17 February 2013 GARDENING, HOME -
Raindrops on Willow
It snowed then rained and left my willow practicing balancing drops: Read more
Posted on 14 February 2013 GARDENING, HOME -
Prime Location
Now we are all told all the time that location is everything. Are we living in the right street, in the right town? Are we near to the right schools? Most... Read more
Posted on 07 February 2013 GARDENING, HOME -
Tracks
I often have a song stuck in my head which I don't think is that unusual. Sometimes it is something I have heard on the radio, sometimes it has popped into my... Read more
Posted on 03 February 2013 GARDENING, HOME -
End of Month Review - January 2013
I am now in the habit of looking at last year's End of Month Review for the appropriate month before starting writing this year's. Last year I commented that... Read more
Posted on 31 January 2013 GARDENING, HOME -
"All My Beautiful Wickedness"
"I'm melting! melting! Oh, what a world! What a world! Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness? Read more
Posted on 27 January 2013 GARDENING, HOME -
A Tale of Two Sams
Sam's Song at the Doorstep of Cirit Ungol In western lands beneath the Sun the flowers may rise in Spring, the trees may bud, the waters run, the merry finches... Read more
Posted on 25 January 2013 GARDENING, HOME -
A Visitor in the Snow
The predicted snowfall arrived over the last few days. The temperature has plummeted and the travel chaos has commenced. Yes, it is winter proper now. There... Read more
Posted on 20 January 2013 GARDENING, HOME -
Gelid
A Winter Pond Sting-chill of winter matt – Her frozen hand caressed us all; And calming bleach of silence Pressed upon the rustic scape To leave an ashen... Read more
Posted on 17 January 2013 GARDENING, HOME -
Reasons to Be Cheerful
Anything that makes me start singing 'Reasons to be Cheerful, part 3' has to be a good thing in its own right. I was a teenager when this song was released, I... Read more
Posted on 13 January 2013 GARDENING, HOME -
On the Edge of the Ellipse
or hello Gary Oval So a couple of weeks ago I wrote a piece about the top end of my garden. I explained that it was not an area I concentrated on very much and... Read more
Posted on 10 January 2013 GARDENING, HOME -
"And What in Heaven's Name Brought You to Casablanca?"
“Renault: And what in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca? Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters. Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in... Read more
Posted on 06 January 2013 GARDENING, HOME -
Blackberry Tales 5 - The Boy Who Waited
When I first moved into this house there were two things sitting right outside the back door. Once was an ivy-covered hump* and the other was a bird bath. Read more
Posted on 03 January 2013 GARDENING, HOME -
End of Month Review - December 2012
So 2012 has finished its turn and the end is truly in sight for it. The minutes are ticking away inexorably to the tolling of the bell that means a year ends an... Read more
Posted on 31 December 2012 GARDENING, HOME -
The Prize
For some reason when I win prizes, which is really not that often, the prize tends to involve fruit. I have a real knack for winning hampers of fruit. Read more
Posted on 27 December 2012 GARDENING, HOME -
Late One Christmas Eve....
or the tale of tomato soup Why tomato soup? Actually, lets go back a step, it is a specific brand of tomato soup where the variety has 56 other siblings. Read more
Posted on 24 December 2012 GARDENING, HOME -
The Shortest Day
It turns out that I probably look forward to the shortest day of the year more than any other. More than my birthday (I’ve gone beyond looking forward to... Read more
Posted on 21 December 2012 GARDENING, HOME -
The Christmas Wreath
or good things come in purple packages So it was a usual sort of day when I received an email asking me if I would like to a feature a Sarah Raven product on... Read more
Posted on 15 December 2012 GARDENING, HOME -
Life on the Margin
or the back country. I was going to call this post ‘the Wasteland’, I thought about tying it into TS Eliot’s poem of the same name. Read more
Posted on 13 December 2012 GARDENING, HOME