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• A New Toy

  

  I have treated myself to a new propagator this time one that is thermostatically controlled. I have a heated tray which I use to help with germination in the... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• Notes from the Garden – 13th March 2016

  

  Finally a glorious spring weekend which has seen me bumbling around the garden just like the big lumbering bumble bees that have been visiting the hellebores an... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• Notes from the Garden – 6th March

  

  There is nothing quite like a few stolen hours working in the garden on a chilly early Spring Sunday to make you feel heroic and pleased with yourself. Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• The Art of Gardening – Book Review

  

  Very occasionally I receive a book to review and the timing of its arrival seems to be very serendipitous. This is true of The Art of Gardening, a Timberpress... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• End of Month View – February 2016 Hugh’s Border

  

  Ok so the quick-witted amongst you will have spotted that this isn’t my front garden which I said last month was going to be the focus of the End of Month Meme.... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• Block 4 Completed – Pandora Box Project

  

  I shared with you at the end of January that I had embarked on a new, yes another one, embroidery project – Pandora’s Box.The project is supported by a... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• An Exotic Approach to the Front Garden from Rob Stacewicz

  

  During my ponderings on the front garden I ended up having one of those late night online conversations with my friend, Rob Stacewicz (Twitter@robstacewicz)... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• Pondering on the Front Garden Project

  

  I suspect I was unconsciously thinking about taking up the front lawn when I decided to feature the front garden this year as the End of Month view. Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• A Day in the Wye Valley

  

  Last Sunday I had a very pleasant day out in the Wye Valley, along the English and Welsh border. The purpose of my trip was to visit my friends Kate and Hitesh... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• Garden Bloggers Bloom Day 15/2/2016

  

  February is really becoming hellebore time in my garden although unusually I haven’t added to the collection yet this year although I am sure there is still... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• My Garden This Weekend – 7/2/16

  

  What a glorious morning we have had today especially given that yesterday we had at least 14 hours of non-stop rain.  Having spent yesterday feeling sorry for... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• A Loggery Perhaps?

  

  Back in November I posted about the new mega compost bin my eldest had built me from old pallets. When I came home from the monthly HPS meeting on Saturday I wa... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• End of Month View 2016 – The Shameful Front Garden!

  

  It’s the end of January and so time for a new view for the End of Month View meme.  In a bid to make myself really focus on the front garden I have decided to... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• Pandora’s Box – An Embroidery Journey

  

  My love of embroidery keeps growing and it has really stood me in good stead over the last month, providing a useful relaxation at the end of a long day at work. Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• Malvern Hills Challenge 7: Perseverance Hill

  

  Finally a weekend when a walk on the hills first thing was a real possibility and strangely after temperatures all week of -5-2C this morning the temperature wa... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• Seed Mountain

  

  Back in my early teens there used to be reference on the news to the EU butter mountain which bemused me. I had these quite grotesque images of oozing... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• Of Notebooks and Empty Nests

  

  This morning I was reading an article in Gardens Illustrated which revolved around the use of garden notebooks. There was a lovely quote from Joan Didion ‘On... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• Tropical Stitching

  

  I’ve mentioned from time to time my new past-time of embroidery and I mentioned a few posts ago that I was working on a cross stitch that my sons had bought me... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• Emerging from the Elderberry

  

  AugustI am sure we all have bits of our garden that we really struggle with and to be honest turn a blind eye to.  I also bet that those areas are ones which ar... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• If We Were Having Tea

  

  right now there would of course be cake. On a damp cold Saturday afternoon there needs to be afternoon tea with some treat. My preference today would be a... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2016 GARDENING, HOME