Cheering Up Mondays #337
One of my beautiful dahlias for this week’s mood-lifting flower. It’s been a mixed year for flowers with some of . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #329
I couldn’t resist another dahlia for this week’s Cheering Up Mondays flower. This is one of my new dahlias for . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #310
A blast of colour after what has been a washout of a weekend. What did brighten the gloomy weather was . . .
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Overwintering Dahlias
I spent the weekend finishing off one of my biggest autumn jobs – overwintering dahlias. They could be left in . . .
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Saving the National Dahlia Collection
The National Dahlia Collection has a new home and a new custodian. I’ve been to find out more. Now I’m . . .
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Review: The Flower Yard by Arthur Parkinson
I’ve been reading another dangerous book. After the recent temptation of Naomi Slade’s Lilies, The Flower Yard by Arthur Parkinson . . .
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The 2019 Flower Gardening Trials
For many years, I didn’t really grow annual flowers – beyond sweet peas – but starting a cutting border changed . . .
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In heaven among the dahlias
Final update: the collection has been taken on my Louise Danks and moved to near Camborne. You can read about . . .
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Review: Dahlias by Naomi Slade
I admit to being rather late to the dahlia-growing party. I’d always had a couple in pots but it wasn’t . . .
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Looking back – the garden in 2017
Gardening is so much about looking forward and getting on with jobs that need doing that sometimes it’s easy to . . .
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