Winter joy at Painswick Rococo Garden
It wasn’t the best day to go garden visiting – bitterly cold, unrelentingly grey and with fog at higher levels . . .
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Snowdrops at Colesbourne Park
I had a rare trip out last week to see the snowdrops at Colesbourne Park. It’s long been a favourite . . .
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My Gardening View #12
My gardening view at the moment is one of daily excitement as new spring flowers break through. I keep having . . .
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Vegetable Gardening Trials 2020
The weather’s been too bad recently to do much beyond checking on plants in the greenhouse and potting shed, topping . . .
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Review: The Garden by Toby Musgrave
Given that The Garden is essentially an encyclopaedia of horticultural terms, I didn’t expect to like it as much as . . .
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A Look Back at the Garden in 2020
Never have I been so glad to see the back of a year but I guess I’m not alone in . . .
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Review: Stocking Filler Gardening Books
The garden publishing world is rather like an over-planted border, so stuffed full of titles you wonder that there’s room, . . .
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The 2020 Cut Flowers Gardening Trials
I’ve been looking back at this year’s cut flowers gardening trials and deciding what to grow next year. There seems . . .
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2020 Flower Advent Calendar #1
I’ve run a flower advent calendar for many years but usually just on my social media accounts with a round-up . . .
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Review: Sissinghurst by Tim Richardson
Sissinghurst is one of those places many feel they know without ever having visited. It’s arguably one of the most . . .
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