Gardening

Spare Garden Tools Donated To A Good Cause

As I have found to my continued annoyance, one of the most useful things a householder needs is a shed.  I used to have one in the top corner of the garden.  It needed a lot off sanding & wood staining but really it was the most wonderful storage article!  I only agreed to have […]

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Dealing With Storms & Flooded Gardens

We’ve had the most unbelievable storms of late – of the strength usually expected in the US.  All these storms are given names, working alphabetically.    I’m not at all sure how this system works – we seem to be always in the first quarter of the alphabet each time.  At least I don’t recall a […]

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Little & Often Weed & Bramble Control Works

The garden holds great joy for many folk.  The chance to get out there into the fresh air is still something to be looked forward to and more opportunities to do just that should be taken.  After a year of lockdowns and pandemic strifes just getting out of the house is now factored in to […]

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Extremes Of Weather Create Gardening Mayhem

We are at the point in the year when mellow fruit and autumnal hues offer the glories of golden leaves and dried grasses.   When the weather has been so patchy, up and down in temperature and rain fall, it causes a series of different outcomes for the flower borders and shrubberies.  The ground alternates between […]

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Keeping An Abundance Of Blooms

Trying to keep the garden full of flowers over a longer summer period is sometimes tricky – I’ve found that over the years my favourite plants reward me by letting me propogae from them at regular intervals but the ones I’ve never felt much affinity with don’t prosper.   It’s an odd thing.  However, to keep […]

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A Tree Is A Delight In Any Other Land

We have a wonderful selection of trees in this country.  It’s one of the things I miss most when I travel anywhere else.  In fact, I was born in a very green and leafy county, well known for avenues of trees around the towns and villages.  When I moved up north west for a couple […]

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Square Trees & Shrubs Are So Unbecoming

Ahh, problematic overgrown shrubs . . .  There is often a tendency to want to clear and tidy up the garden – cut bushes and shrubs down into manageable shapes.  I can think of many an old person’s once glorious show of tall elegant shrubs, now criminally cut down to strange and very unnatural oblongs […]

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Keeping Up With Feathered Friends

This is really one of the most wonderful times of the gardening year for me.  Not being a professional or trained in any way at all,  I just take great enjoyment in watching the progress of the green shoots appearing.  We’ve had a great deal of very old weather and a bit more snow than […]

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Garden Help Needs Lesson In Spacial Awareness

I have been looking at moving some big shrubs around in the garden.  My plot is not enormous – the actual planting area with lawn extends to 9 fence panels across by 7 down, so about 54ft x 42 ft.  I’m going to be helped by a lady who  gardens but has been learning this […]

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Fantastic Colour Show In One Tree

I have one particular tree that is so versatile and gives beauty & pleasure every month of the year.  When we bought it from the garden centre some 17 years ago, the vendor said it would out perform everything else we planted.  At the time we thought this was a bit over the top, rather […]

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