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• Further Confessions of a Seedaholic

  

  I am a self-confessed seedaholic.  I can’t resist, its hopeless.  My addiction is really tested in the winter months when its hard to get outside to gardening... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• My Plant of the Centenary – Ashwood Hellebores.

  

  In response to the RHS’s attempt to find the plant of the centenary as part of its celebrations of 100 years of the Chelsea Flower Show VP has challenged... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• My Garden This Weekend – 3rd March 2013

  

  This weekend saw a slight increase in temperature and on Saturday the sun was shining.  There was still a nip in the air so I decided that if I was going to... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Weekly Photo Challenge: Lost in the Details

  

  This week’s weekly photo challenge theme is Lost in the Detail.  The idea is that instead of the usual landscape shot (below) you look into the landscape at... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• End of Month View – February 2013

  

  Unsurprisingly nothing has really changed in the front garden since last month’s post.  It is as  drab as ever.  Though to be honest the grass that is growing... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Enlightened and Bemused

  

  Eranthis hyemalis cilicica groupThis weekend I went to my first meeting of a well established group of the Hardy Plant Society. Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• My Garden This Weekend – 24th February 2013

  

  The cold has continued so there has been no real gardening done which is quite frustrating. I have my fingers crossed that by next weekend, the first weekend i... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Plant Me Now – Starter Plants

  

  I have agreed this year to act as an Ambassador for PlantMeNow and to trial some of their plants and report back through my blog. PlantMeNow offers plants onlin... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Catching ‘White Fever’

  

  Galanthus plicatus ‘Sarah Dumont’ In response to those readers who, like me until recently, can’t see the obsession and fascination with snowdrops – after all... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• My Garden This Weekend – 17th February

  

  The garden is definitely showing signs of spring this week. Primroses are starting to flower and shoots are pushing through the ground in the borders. I... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Monthly Photo – February 2013

  

  I have chosen snowdrops to represent February as part of the Monthly Photo challenge hosted by Katarina. Whilst I said in my last post that I was interested... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Dabbling in Snowdrops

  

  Galanthus Magnet I am a naturally curious person with an enquiring mind. Recently my curiosity has been piqued by snowdrops and the obsession some people have... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• My Garden This Weekend – 10th February 2013

  

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  Posted on 10 February 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Weekly Photo Challenge: Home

  

  This week’s photo challenge’s theme is Home. At first I wasn’t going to participate as I thought I don’t have any photographs of my home but the more I... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Rococo Snowdrops

  

  It was with a sense of relief today that I took a day out of work and drove cross-country to the Cotswolds to meet up with two blogging friends, Michelle and... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• My Garden This Week – 3rd February 2013

  

  Not a lot has happened in the garden over the past week – well I haven’t done much but the garden has been busy getting on with it by itself as it has a habit o... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique

  

  This week’s photo challenge theme is – Unique. So I thought I would show you one of my son’s minature birdhouses. He makes these and each one is unique using... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• End of Month View – January 2013 – The Front Garden

  

  Well this is a bit of a leap of faith for me as I have a love/hate relationship with my front garden and have perfected the art of passing by it without seeing... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• My Garden This Week – 27th January 2013

  

  Iris ‘George’ The garden has spent most of the week under several inches of snow. Whilst this is boring to look at the snow has insulated the emerging bulbs... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Weekly Photo Challenge: Love

  

  The theme for this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge is Love. I pondered this for a while and how to represent ‘love’. I could have posted a photograph of my... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2013 GARDENING, HOME