Colour Explosion at the Malvern Midsummer Garden Life Festival
I had a sneak preview of the Malvern Midsummer Garden Life Festival which opens today. June may be more grey . . .
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Author: The Chatty Gardener
Cheering Up Mondays #280
A rose to start the week. I don’t grow many roses as my sandy soil isn’t really to their liking. . . .
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Lupin Envy at Berrys Place Farm
Country gardens may have lovely surroundings and space from neighbours but it’s not all the good life as I discovered . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #279
How beautiful is this! I love iris and the rich shading on this is stunning. It was just one of . . .
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Exploring Goldstone Hall and Wollerton Old Hall Garden
The last time I went on a Garden Media Guild trip, there was snow on the ground. That was to . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #278
Dahlia dreams for today’s cheerful flower. This is ‘Wizard of Oz’, which I was given a couple of years ago . . .
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Starting the year at BBC Gardeners’ World Spring Fair
Normally by the end of May I’ve already done a few flower shows so it was strange to be almost . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #277
The first rose I’ve seen this season – not in my garden but at the BBC Gardeners’ World Spring Fair. . . .
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Review: Zero-Waste Gardening by Ben Raskin
A vegetable garden doesn’t seem the obvious place to fight climate change but in Zero-Waste Gardening Ben Raskin demonstrates that . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #276
The cow parsley is in full bloom now and lifting my spirits every time I see it. I know it’s . . .
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