Cheering Up Mondays #380
This week’s cheerful flower heralds the start of the dahlia season and the first of the 2023 blooms. They’ve been . . .
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Tag: dahlias
Cheering Up Mondays #345
I can’t believe how long the dahlias are lasting this year. On the one hand, it’s rather lovely to be . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #339
A blast of colour to start the week from one of this season’s new dahlias. Guaranteed to put a smile . . .
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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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