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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Author: The Chatty Gardener
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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Cheering Up Mondays #320
This is something new I’ve grown this year after I spotted it on garden designer Ann-Marie Powell’s Instagram grid last . . .
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Review: The Vegetable Grower’s Handbook by Huw Richards
I do try to be fairly organised when it comes to my vegetable garden but, reading The Vegetable Grower’s Handbook, . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #319
This week’s cheerful flower is something that’s filling my garden with white froth. I bought it as a cutting from . . .
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Barnsley Festival Returns
Barnsley Village Garden Festival is returning in May this year after a two-year break. I’ve been out visit to Layston, . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #318
Something I saw on a trip to Barnsley for this week’s cheery flower. I was there to find out more . . .
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Review: How to Garden When You Rent by Matthew Pottage
For many years, first as a student and then in a rented flat, I had no garden, and my growing . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #317
After the change to bitterly cold weather – and snow! – a throwback to summer for this week’s Cheering Up . . .
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