Cheering up Mondays #65
Magnolia in my mum’s garden.
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Author: The Chatty Gardener
Review: A Little History of British Gardening
My father always used to say that if you hung onto something long enough it would eventually come back into . . .
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Paul sets a growing challenge
There’s a new contest at the Malvern Festival this year. I’ve been talking to Paul Hervey-Brookes about his plans. Cotswold . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #64
Puschkinia scilloides.
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RHS Cardiff Flower Show 2017: the stuff of legends
The RHS Cardiff Flower Show is just a short hop over the border from the Cotswolds. I’ve been talking to . . .
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Review: Good Soil by Tina Raman, Ewa-Marie Rundquist & Justine Lagache
For many gardeners, feeding the soil is like the plumbing in a house, essential but frankly uninspiring. Indeed, the women . . .
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Cheering up Mondays #63
Iris unguicularis is a winter star.
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A garden crafted by nature
Sometimes nature proves to be the better gardener. So often in my own plot self-sown plants have colonised corners I’d . . .
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Review: Urban Flowers by Carolyn Dunster
It’s been some years since my gardening was confined to a few houseplants and some pots balanced precariously outside a . . .
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Cheering up Mondays #62
Hellebores in blackcurrant and custard colours.
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