Cheering Up Mondays #208
An winter favourite for the first Monday flower in 2020. Galanthus plicatus ‘Colossus’ is usually the first snowdrop to flower . . .
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Author: The Chatty Gardener
The Garden in 2019 – a review of the year
As a new decade starts, I’ve been looking back over the garden in 2019 The more I garden, the more . . .
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Cheering up Mondays #207
Something simple for the last Cheering up Mondays of 2019. Calendula officinalis – otherwise known as the pot marigold – . . .
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Cheering up Mondays #206
Something simple for the last Monday before Christmas. I love forget-me-nots (Myosotis sylvatica), which is just as well because they . . .
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Cheering up Mondays #205
Pure white beauty to start the week. This was on the Picton Garden and Old Court Nurseries’ stand at the . . .
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Review: The Half-Hour Allotment by Lia Leendertz
Can you fit veg-growing into a busy lifestyle? ‘The Half-Hour Allotment’ makes the case for just that. Growing vegetables may . . .
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Cheering up Mondays #204
There’s something appealing about the simple flowers of honesty. This is also Day 9 of my Flower Advent Calendar – . . .
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The 2019 Flower Gardening Trials
For many years, I didn’t really grow annual flowers – beyond sweet peas – but starting a cutting border changed . . .
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Cheering up Mondays #203
A touch of flamboyance for the first Monday of December. This rather striking hippeastrum was on the W.S. Warmenhoven display . . .
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