Flower Show News

• Oct

  8

  Muddy waters
  We had a bit of a disaster at home over the weekend with the pond.For the last five years it has done wonderfully well. It's full of life with plenty...
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• Mar

  24

  A plantsman's progress
  I've finally got round to planting the eriobotryia at the bottom of my garden. It's massive - 50-litres of rootball that I've kept alive with liquid f...
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• Mar

  12

  Garden timber
  Another day spent at the new Gardeners' World garden, Greenacre. (Note to self - always take a spare pair of boots, some clean shoes and a spare pair ...
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• Mar

  6

  Off to pastures new
  Well the cat's out of the bag and I'm glad because I'm useless at keeping secrets. We're leaving Berryfields and off to pastures new - Birmingham to b...
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• Feb

  25

  The joys of bare soil
  I'm off to rotavate my allotment after I've written this. The wet weather has delayed me getting on with it and I've been itching to get out there and...
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• Feb

  19

  Winter survivors
  As much as I love the seasons - it's the change between them that really thrills. Standing in the garden it's as if everything is washed with a new li...
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• Feb

  4

  Bavarian Brushstrokes
  Enough is enough. After weeks of itching to give the garden a good tidy I've finally made a start. This year the muddy job of landscaping my lowest te...
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