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• End of Month View – May 2018

  

  They say better late than never! No longer the owner of a garden I was feeling a little melancholy, to say the least, when reading the links to the various... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• Restoring a Hampshire Garden – Chapter 3

  

  I’ve just realised it’s been 5 weeks since I last wrote an update on my daughter and Son in Law’s Hampshire Garden. The last blog post, Chapter Two, was all... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• I Have an Allotment!

  

  When faced with an overgrown allotment and not know what to do first, as the song goes: “Let’s start at the very beginning. A very good place to start. Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• Saying Farewell

  

  I moved to Worthing in February 2001, seventeen years ago after buying a large ground floor flat in a Victorian conversion. I bought it because it had its own... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• Six on Saturday – 7th April 2018

  

  I really should think carefully and plan when I’m going to blog to make sure that when I publish a post it doesn’t coincide with specific meme’s, such as ‘Six o... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• Restoring a Hampshire Garden – Chapter 2

  

  KEEPING IVY AND HER FRIEND HONEYSUCKLE IN THEIR PLACE This latest task wasn’t so much a restoration job, but a ‘let’s see what we have here’ job. There are time... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• West Dean Gardens Victorian Glasshouses

  

  It is a pretty good bet that anyone visiting West Dean Gardens, near Chichester, will make for the Victorian Glasshouses no matter whether this is their first o... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• Restoring a Hampshire Garden – Chapter 1

  

  ‘The Beginning’ I mentioned in a recent post that my youngest daughter and her husband have recently moved and inherited once loved garden now sadly neglected... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• In a Vase on Monday – In Celebration of Spring

  

  It’s the middle of March and another bitterly cold day, and to make us all feel better about it the weathermen gleefully inform us that Spring is just around th... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• When Winter Meets Spring

  

  I have been writing my blog since January 2011, which has given me seven years to look back on and compare seasons, year on year. Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• Six on a Bitterly Cold Saturday 17/03/2018

  

  It was my plan to do a Six on Saturday blog post today. After a couple of warm days that fooled us, and plant life, that Spring was about to arrive, it is... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• Spring in the Garden and a Move on the Horizon

  

  At last after far too many soggy days we have sunshine! This time of the year often means clear skies equal frosty nights but hey, it’s infinitely better than... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• To Sow v. To Sew

  

  When it comes to the weather being too wet or cold I usually turn from gardening to needlework, hence to sow v. to sew. A few years ago I had a small business... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• The Early Days of Retirement

  

  I’m into Day 5 of retirement and already beginning to realise that it is not like a ‘Stay-at-Home’ holiday from work. During those such weeks I always felt I wa... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• Dusting off the Camera for Spring

  

  Technology can make you lazy. Especially mobile phone cameras which are becoming increasingly more sophisticated. I don’t know about you but I have fallen into... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• Is There a Right Time to Leave a Much Loved Garden?

  

  I’m finding it quite painful receiving tempting seed catalogues in the post when, at the moment, it’s not clear where I am going to live and what type of... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• Exploring All Avenues

  

  Project ‘New Home’ continues. I have a buyer who is not in a chain and happy to wait until I have found somewhere I want to live. With not much equity after... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• Project ‘New Home’ Has Commenced

  

  Project New Home has commenced! Step One – I’ve accepted an offer on my home with a planned completion by Easter. Step Two – Conveyancing solicitors have been... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• Project New Home Commences

  

  Project New Home has commenced! Step One – I’ve accepted an offer on my home with a planned completion by Easter. Step Two – Conveyancing solicitors have been... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2018 GARDENING, HOME

• Nine of 2017

  

  Nine photos of many taken in 2017 of the flowers in my garden. Top Row: Cerinthe major ‘Purpurascens’; Calibrachoa Can Can ‘Coral Reef’ a Begonia and Erigeron;... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2018 GARDENING, HOME