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• Review: Create Academy Online Courses - Dan Pearson's Expert Guide to Planting...

  I have previously reviewed a couple of Create Academy courses so when they contacted me and asked if I was interested in reviewing more I was not going to say... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• End of Month Review March 2023

  

  March sees the beginning of Spring. Whether you are the 1st March Spring type or an Vernal Equinox type - both happen in March. The garden responds to the... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• Book Reviews: Rekha's Kitchen Garden by Rekha Mistry and Of Cockroaches and...

  

  It is the time of year when the gardening is stirring into a faster mode of being. The soil will be warming up and insects are on the move. It seems a good... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• There's a Rat in My Greenhouse.....

  

  ... what am I going to do? is a song I am currently singing. Of course the original song is 'There's a rat in mi kitchen' by UB40 (1986) but at this moment it... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• Book Review: Tough Plants for Tough Places by Sharon Amos and Why We Garden by...

  

  I was very interested in reviewing these two new books as they appealed to different sides of gardening that I care about. One is about plants - of course I... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• Some Leicester Snow-beings

  

  Some months ago I was reading about 'Juhyo', snow monsters seen in the shapes of snow-covered trees in Japan. These trees, high in the mountains become... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• A Coton Manor Snowdrop Visit

  

  Regular readers will know how fond I am of Coton Manor. I have no idea how many years I have been visiting there, I am going to say 20 and I will be... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• Tree Following March 2023

  

  Oh my dear reader, oh my oh my oh my: the Quince Brothers are stirring. So why the worry, well as I write the temperatures are dropping to -3 and lower and sno... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• Snowdrops at Easton Walled Gardens

  

  I have been visiting Easton Walled Gardens for several years now and it is always high on my list of favourite gardens to visit. I had recently booked a week... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• End of Month Review February 2023

  

  February has felt a bit long this year, I am not convinced it is the shortest month, maybe someone has added in an additional week when I wasn't looking though... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• A Return to Dimminsdale

  

  It turns out it is eight years (eight years!) since I last visited Dimminsdale so I was long overdue a return visit. The last couple of years hardly count... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• The Garden Press Event 2023

  

  I have been going to the Garden Press Event for a few years now and it is always a great day. It is hosted by HTA and GIMA and held in that London for garden... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• Kew Gardens and the Orchid Festival

  

  This is where I admit that I had never visited Kew Gardens. I have wanted to for many years. I have driven past it a few times, I have thought about it... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• Far from the Madder Crowd....

  

  well actually, quite the opposite in many ways, but I like the title and can dream a little of Bathsheba..... Remember back in September when I finally gave... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• Book Reviews: Zeals by Jennie Elias and Roman Gardens and Gardening by Mark...

  

  Zeals is not really a book about a garden per se, but about Zeals House in Wiltshire. A house with a grand history but an uncertain future. Now I have to admi... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• Tree Following February 2023

  

  One of the delights of growing quince trees is that they start to wake up earlier than many of the other trees in my garden. Quince Major is a lighter... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• A Waiting Game

  

  I have written already about some worries for various diva plants in the garden not making it through the winter. This is all usual stuff, you are used to my... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• Product Review - National Trust Vail Larch Nest Box from C J Wildlife

  

  I quite often buy bird food from CJ Wildlife, so when they asked me if I would like one of the nesting boxes that they sell to review, it seemed churlish to... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• End of Month Review January 2023

  

  Yes a whole month of 23 has skipped past us without us having time to blink. The year, which allegedly moves forward one day at a time, has been skipping some... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• A Winter of Cold

  

  We know that winter is cold and should be cold. A warm winter is not a good sign and in recent years winters have been warmer and wetter. Every now and again ... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2023 GARDENING, HOME