Big Changes at Fibrex Nurseries
Fibrex Nurseries are giving up their National Collections and scaling back. I’ve been finding out what’s next for the pelargonium . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #271
I planted this Cardamine trifolia a few years ago when I revamped a rather gloomy space in the garden. (You . . .
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Review: RHS How to Create a Wildlife Pond by Kate Bradbury
Reading How to Create a Wildlife Pond one thing is clear. Kate Bradbury is obsessed with ponds. Stopped from digging . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #270
These may be tiny but they are well worth growing for a splash of early colour. Another of those rare . . .
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Life and Death in the Garden
At first glance, everything looks good in the garden. Tulips are appearing daily, there are buds on shrubs, and the . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #269
An unexpected joy for this week’s piece of floral cheer. This flowering currant suddenly appeared when some overlarge conifers were . . .
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Review: the Niwaki Hori Hori
The Hori Hori is a Japanese gardening tool that seems to attract not mere admirers but disciples. So many gardeners . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #268
There are very few flowers that have true blue but this is one of them. These dainty blooms have just . . .
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Review: My Real Garden, the book and community
My Real Garden is a celebration of a community that came together during lockdown. I chatted to Ann-Marie Powell about . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #267
I love the slightly mad look of these daffodils – just the thing to brighten the start of another week. . . .
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