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• A Visit to Beth Chatto's Gardens

  

  I was very lucky (and I do realise how lucky I am) to receive an invite to a day at Beth Chatto's Gardens. This was an opportunity I was not going to miss. ... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• Tree Following May 2023 - Blossom

  

  Oh yes dear reader, we have blossom, quite a lot of blossom. In fact I am going to say oodles of blossom on both trees, more than I have seen before. Am I... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• Book Review: The Seasoned Gardener by Liz Zorab and RHS The Resilient Garden by...

  

  I was keen to review these two new books, they both add to our knowledge about organic and sustainable gardening. Both have the health of our planet at their... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• End of Month Review -April 2023

  

  Here we are at the end of April. It has been a quite cold, sometimes frosty and oft very rainy April. Some days have felt more like early Autumn rather than... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• Letter to the Garden - April 2023

  

  Dear Garden I appear to have been slipping again in my frequency in writing to you. I want to say its because there is a lot going on, and there is, but also... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• The Dye Garden - the April Update

  

  There has been progress in the Dye Garden so I thought I would give you an update. Regular readers will know that I have been redeveloping my old veg garden... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• The Little Peach

  

  I bought a little ornamental peach tree several years ago. Whilst I know I have its name recorded in my gardening journal and when I planted it, I could not... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• Product Review: Bucket Barrow Urban88

  

  Picture the scene, I had just the other day received a tonne of top soil and a tonne of gravel for my new garden project the creation of a natural dye garden. ... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• Amaryllis Dancing Queen

  

  I have been growing amaryllis since I was a teenager after being bought one for Christmas. They are often sold as Christmas gifts and at that point I had... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• Book Review: Not Another Jungle by Tony Le Britton

  

  The subtitle of this new book from Tony Le Britton is 'comprehensive care for extraordinary house plants' and this indeed what this book delivers. This is not... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• Tree Following: April 2023

  

  The Quince Brothers have decided to ignore the recent frosts and burst into life. They are casting caution to the wind, reaching out, leaves akimbo, they... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2023 GARDENING, HOME

• 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