Cotswold Snowdrop Gardens 2020
Unlike summer flowers, snowdrops pretty much have the garden stage to themselves. Couple that with their appearance at the start . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #211
Sometimes the name of a plant is just perfect. This is Dahlia ‘Rhubarb and Cream’, spotted on the National Dahlia . . .
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Snowdrops at the museum
I’ve been finding out about Stroud’s links to snowdrops at The Museum in the Park It seems that one of . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #210
I’ve been sowing sweetpeas this weekend so this seemed appropriate for today’s dose of floral cheer. I can’t imagine summer . . .
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Review: Living Decor by Maria Colletti
I admit to being a bit sceptical when Living Decor landed on my desk. As someone who rarely carefully co-ordinates . . .
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Cheering up Mondays #209
The start of another week and the January gloom is being lifted by this. Winter flowers are always so welcome . . .
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Starting the season with sweet peas
It’s too early to really start thinking about sowing seeds but one thing I will be doing this month is . . .
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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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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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