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• My Garden This Weekend – 2nd March 2014

  

  This has been a weekend of extremes of weather.  Today, my birthday, has been a non-event in the garden due to the drizzle and cold wind but this is fine as I... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• End of Month View – February 2014

  

  After the delights of Wisley at the start of the week it is hard not to feel disillusioned when I look at my own garden.  I have to remind myself that I work... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• A February Outing to RHS Wisley

  

  Yesterday, the gods smiled, the sun shone and I finally got to spend a day at RHS Wisley Garden. I have wanted to visit properly for a while but it’s around a... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• My Garden This Weekend – 23rd February 2014

  

  There isn’t much to report from the garden this weekend mainly as I spent the only dry sunny day at my garden club and sadly Sunday was a blustery and damp day. Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• The Greenhouse Year – February 2014

  

  As part of January’s End of Month View post I suggested that I might do a monthly post on my greenhouse. I don’t think greenhouses get much coverage anywhere... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Wordless Wednesday – 19/2/14 – Eranthis

  

  Eranthis GrunlingEranthis schwefelglanz Eranthis hyemalis Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• My Garden This Weekend – 16/2/14

  

  Sunday was one of the nicest gardening days I can remember for months.  After weeks if not months of rain and rain the sun shone and you could see the positive... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Foliage Follow Up – February 2014 – Succulents

  

  Due to the perpetual rain I decided to take the easy option and take my foliage follow up photographs in the greenhouse.  The focus of this month’s post will... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• My Top Twenty Reads

  

  It’s always interesting where conversations on twitter can lead to.  The other day the Guardian’s top 100 reads, which it turned out was from Amazon. Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• My Garden This Weekend – 9th February 2014

  

  Galanthus nivalis f. pleniflorus ‘Flore Pleno’There has been a preponderance of pondering going on over recent weeks and not much activity in the garden due... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Green and White

  

  Galanthus ‘Fly Fishing’“The world isn’t all green and white” said Bob Wallis, our first speaker at the AGS Snowdrop Conference this weekend. Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• My Garden This Weekend – 2/2/14

  

  Galanthus ‘Selborne Greentips’This weekend has been excellent from a horticultural perspective.  Saturday was spent at the AGS Snowdrop Conference in Stratford... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• End of Month View – January 2014

  

  I’ve been umming and arhing about what I should focus on this year for the End of Month View.  I like to have a new area to look at each year. Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Wordless Wednesday 29/1/14 – Narcissus Romieuxii

  

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  Posted on 29 January 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• My Garden This Weekend – 26th January 2014

  

  Despite the completely mad weather this weekend I have still managed to get my horticultural fix.  Some say that a small tornado went across the country... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Winter

  

  has never been a favourite season for me or even a mildly welcomed one. It is the bottom of the pile. I have found it too still, too grey and obviously too cold... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• My Garden This Weekend – 19th January 2014

  

  Finally, a good weekend for gardening albeit very soggy due to the endless rain we have had for weeks. It has rained so much that on Friday my journey to work... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Foliage Follow Up – January 2014

  

  As I said in my post  on My Garden earlier this week I like big foliage.  There is already some examples in the garden such as the Fatsia above which looks... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Birmingham Botanical Garden Glasshouses

  

  I felt in need of some plant therapy this weekend.  I don’t feel as though I have had much horticultural time for the last few weeks particularly over the... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• My Garden This Weekend – 11th January 2014

  

  I’m a day early with the weekly review post but I am planning on a horticultural outing tomorrow so I thought I might as well get blogging. Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2014 GARDENING, HOME