Sweet Peas 2021 – Pick of the Bunch
Sweet peas 2021 turned out to be a rather mixed season with some plants producing an abundance of flowers while . . .
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Author: The Chatty Gardener
Cheering Up Mondays #298
A look back to the spring for today’s cheerful flower. I’ve been slowly planting the bulbs – there seem to . . .
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2021 Tomato Trials – the Results
The 2021 tomato trials have gone far better than I feared would be the case. The plants managed to escape . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #297
A favourite dahlia to start the week. Meet ‘Jescot Julie’ one of the more flamboyant dahlias in my garden and . . .
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Review: Hi Cacti by Sabina Palermo
The appeal of Hi Cacti begins with the cover. Primary colours and a cartoon-style image of someone hugging a plant . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #296
A blast of autumn for today’s Cheering Up Mondays flower. I love the rich colours of this. It’s one of . . .
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Saving the National Dahlia Collection
The National Dahlia Collection has a new home and a new custodian. I’ve been to find out more. Now I’m . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #295
A rather lovely cosmos to get the first week of October underway. I don’t know what it is as it’s . . .
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A Trip to the Malvern Autumn Show 2021
Is it time for a rethink for the Malvern Autumn Show? It’s something I found myself wondering as I looked . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #294
Another of my new dahlias for this week’s mood-lifting flower. This was an impulse buy and I’m rather glad I . . .
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