Cheering Up Mondays #324
It’s press day at RHS Chelsea so something from a previous show seemed appropriate for today’s Cheering Up Mondays flower. . . .
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Author: The Chatty Gardener
Growing Green at BBC Gardeners’ World Live 2022
This contest has now closed and the tickets were won by Tom Cranham. Given that she’s building the feature garden . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #323
This week’s flower to brighten up Monday is something that I’ve struggled to get established in my garden. I love . . .
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South Lodge – Working With Nature
South Lodge opens for the National Garden Scheme this week. I went to have a look around ahead of its . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #322
This week’s Cheering Up Mondays flower is something I spotted on a recent visit to Downton House garden. It was . . .
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RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2022 – the Nurseries
Flower show nursery displays are always a highlight and the RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2022 didn’t let me down. Plenty . . .
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RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2022 – The Gardens
Fixed budget designs, houseplants in the spotlight and gardens that the head judge described as full of “take home ideas”, . . .
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Review: Lilacs by Naomi Slade
Lilacs are the flower of my childhood. Like many suburban gardens, ours had a lilac tree, nondescript and generally ignored . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #321
It’s the RHS Malvern Spring Festival this week so something from the last time the show was held seemed appropriate . . .
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Breaking the Rules at Downton House
With the plethora of gardening advice around it’s easy to imagine that there’s only one way of doing things but . . .
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