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February 2026
Weather Since the January post we have had unremitting cloud and rain which has both dampened our spirits and made gardening more or less impossible. Temperatures have been around 6-7 C in the day …
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2026- New Year in the Garden
BRIEF REVIEW OF 2025 It was a very challenging year for gardeners in the UK. Spring came early and we had hot dry weather from early Spring to late Autumn. When we opened the garden in early July, …
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March 31st 2024
Surprising Plants in a Gravel Garden. Our gravel garden is very sunny and we grow the sort of plants which are said to like these conditions eg salvias, lavender and yet are other plants which like…
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The pleasures of the late winter garden
As Winter draws to an end and Spring is in sight, this is a post celebrating the simple pleasures of this time of year. You notice every plant in flower and every sign of plants coming back to life…
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July to September – a pandemic Summer
Introduction On this New Years day I have resolved to finish off the 2020 gardening blog that somehow fell by the wayside after June. In this and the next blog I have had to revisit photographs to …
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June Review 2020
As I did a midsummer blog about the flower garden, this post will focus on wildflowers and wildlife and a more detailed look at the vegetable garden June Wildflowers We grow a number of native wild…
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Around the Summer Solstice 2020
A celebration of flowers for the longest days of the year Roses are such a feature of an English garden in June top left Blue Moon, bottom left The Generous Gardener, middle Wollerton Old Ha…
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May 2020 Still in Lockdown
May was another strange month weather- wise as well as pandemic- wise. Most of the month was so warm and sunny that it felt like midsummer. However a spell of northerly winds mid-month led to cold …
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April 2020 In Lockdown
How strange it is that everything about “normal ” life can change so quickly. So many concerns, fears, uncertainties, difficulties created by the pandemic but with the lockdown , life b…
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February to March 2020
February The weather was thoroughly miserable through February, wet and cold. We had bad flooding all around the village Still the winter flowering shrubs did their best to brighten things up as we…