Review: What’s That Weed?
Have you ever looked at a seedling in the border and wondered if it was friend or foe? Identifying what’s . . .
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Author: The Chatty Gardener
Cheering Up Mondays #415
The first Cheering Up Mondays of the new month and one of my favourites. This is a particularly good shrub . . .
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My Gardening View #25
My gardening view this month is one of tidy vegetable beds – it won’t last! – and a display of . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #414
We’ve had the odd bit of sun recently – I’d almost forgotten what it looked like – and I spotted . . .
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Review: Natural Homemade Beauty
My attempts at making beauty products from the garden have never gone beyond the rose water from petals that most . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #413
This week’s cheerful flower had to be the first of these in bloom. It’s about three weeks earlier than usual . . .
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Review: How to Garden When You’re New to Gardening
How did you learn how to garden? Like many people, I absorbed knowledge watching my parents, always flowers and only . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #412
I always think of these as a real sign of spring though they’ve actually been flowering for weeks. Nothing fancy . . .
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Learning Rural Skills at TASK
Much to my family’s amusement, it turns out I’m not too bad at brick-laying. It’s a hitherto unknown ability I . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #411
A flower to brighten the start of the week.
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