Gardening can seem a very complicated thing to those who’ve never tried it. Latin names . . .
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Review: Gardening The Complete Beginner’s Guide
Gardening can seem a very complicated thing to those who’ve never tried it. Latin names and technical terms are bandied . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #446
This week’s cheerful flower has me both gazing back and looking forward.
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Review: Cordless Stihl Brushcutter
The grass is always left long under our old apple tree because it’s planted with bulbs. Long grass is also . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #445
This week’s cheerful flower is something I’ve been waiting to see all summer. I was beginning to give up hope.
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Review: British Flowerpots
I can never resist a beautiful garden pot. I use them a lot for seasonal displays and, when your soil . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #444
One of the garden’s deceptive flowers for this week’s cheerful bloom. These may look delicate but they ignore anything the . . .
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Review: A Year of Flower Wreaths
It won’t be long before I’ll start thinking about making the Christmas wreath – having one that’s homemade is a . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #443
Something a little more exotic for this week’s cheerful flower. This is a ginger plant but beyond that I have . . .
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Review: Chrysanthemums by Naomi Slade
For many years, I’ve told anyone who would listen that I thought chrysanthemums were going to be the next big . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #442
Something from the Malvern Autumn Show for this week’s cheerful flower. There were plenty of lovely dahlias but I particularly . . .
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