Flower Show News

• Feb

  11

  Spring awakening
  As I write there is a female pheasant on the square lawn pecking amongst the very first of the crocus. The cardoons in the long border are constantly ...
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• Jan

  30

  Outgrowing my garden
  I spent much of the beginning of this month slightly depressed about the size of my garden. It seemed, when I first got there, like an entirely suitab...
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• Jan

  22

  First signs
  The sun is out. It may be wet, muddy and cold, but the sun is out. With sun has come the aconites, snowdrops, swathes of daffodil spikes, along with t...
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• Jan

  5

  Post-Christmas pounds
  I'm a little miffed about this Christmas. Every day I got up dug for three hours, moved, mulched, sorted out the compost bins, raked and tidied (it wa...
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• Dec

  11

  Christmas wish list
  I want to be at home in my mother's kitchen making bread.I want some more Salsola seed, but I think I may be too late to get an order in. I want to be...
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• Dec

  5

  I've made my first cookie cutter
  I'd quite like an office job this week. One where I could sit inside when it's wet and cold or just wet or cold but when the sun shines I'd be allowed...
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• Nov

  25

  Rambling around nowhere
  It's got to that finger numbing point. I plunged 90 minature daffs in under 20 minutes, no small feat in our clay, but it was either go that fast...
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