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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New Ideas at the Garden Press Event
For those of us in the gardening media, the season really starts with the annual Garden Press Event in London. . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #410
The early flowers have been even more welcome this year given the terrible weather. I’ve got many hellebores but couldn’t . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #409
Something from my recent visit to Colesbourne Park for this week’s cheerful flower but it’s not a snowdrop. It’s very . . .
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Books for Greener Gardening
It’s easy to imagine that gardening is good for the planet. In fact, from the compost we choose to use . . .
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