Review: Haxnicks Garden Maypole
The first of May and, appropriately, I’ve been setting up the Haxnicks Garden Maypole in my garden and dreaming of . . .
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Tag: sweet peas
Cheering Up Mondays #405
A sweet pea for this week’s cheerful flower as I’ve finally got around to sowing this year’s seeds. This is . . .
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Sweet Peas Gardening Trials 2023
Unlike many things in the garden – dahlias, I’m looking at you – the sweet peas have had a great . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays 356
There’s been great excitement this week – the first seeds of the year have germinated! It’s still far too early . . .
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2022 Sweet Peas Gardening Trials
I’ve been looking back at the 2022 sweet peas as I start to plan what to grow next year. It . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #326
One of my favourite summer flowers for this week’s Cheering Up Mondays bloom. This is one of the new varities . . .
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Sweet Peas 2021 – Pick of the Bunch
Sweet peas 2021 turned out to be a rather mixed season with some plants producing an abundance of flowers while . . .
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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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Sweet peas – the 2020 season
Sweet peas were one of this year’s success stories, flowering right up until mid-August and providing so many blooms I . . .
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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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