In Bloom at the Ashmolean
As a gardener and gardening journalist, plants are really important to me. However, their impact goes far beyond back gardens . . .
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Author: The Chatty Gardener
Cheering Up Mondays #516
There’s been a long wait for this week’s cheerful flower.
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Review: You’re Overwatering It!
Houseplants can be tricky. They grow in what are essentially artificial, indoor conditions, care advice can be conflicting and knowing . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #515
This week’s cheerful flower was bought purely because of the name.
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Review Stihl Battery-Powered Secateurs
Many, many years of shorthand and typing mean my hands aren’t what they once were and I find some gardening . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #514
This week’s cheerful flower is the first of the tulips!
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Review: A Year of Colour
Who doesn’t want mood-lifting colour in their garden? It’s easy in summer with masses of flowers in bloom but, as . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #513
A spring beauty for this week’s cheerful flower.
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The 2025 Flower Gardening Trials
It’s the time of year when I start sowing the first of my cutting flowers so I’ve been looking back . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #512
Some pink perfection for this week’s cheerful flower.
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