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Garden Maintenance
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Posted: August 29, 2018
Take Stock of Your Garden Successes and Failures
I know that New Year is the traditional time to stop and re-evaluate everything in your life but I reckon now, as summer ends, is also an ideal time to stop all that
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Posted: July 30, 2018
Weeds – Nature’s Opportunists
Nature is a wonderful thing. Here we are, at the time of writing, and it’s baking hot, sunny every day and we are all flagging. Plants are getting droopy, hosepipe bans loom large
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Posted: June 30, 2018
Watering Your Garden in a Heatwave
It’s hot and getting hotter.
Most people love this hot weather and revel at the thought of at least another fortnight o
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Posted: May 25, 2018
A Proper Chelsea Belter
It was an honour and privilege to visit the RHS Chelsea Flower show on press day. It gave me a fantastic chance to get up close to the gardens and plants
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Posted: March 21, 2018
The recent cold weather has taken its toll on some plants.
I was worried for my own fresh young shoots on lupins
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Posted: October 10, 2017Categories: Garden Maintenance
I'm out of them. The doldrums. They are a thing of the past. A recent memory but one consigned to yet another autumn start up. My bulbs are in. The leaves are a-fluttering, a-dancing and annoyingly settling
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Posted: August 22, 2017Categories: Garden Maintenance
If a plant can colonise the flanks of a volcano it sure is going to love growing in an average back garden or near a gentle stream. For a plant to shove its root into just-cooled magma then, let's face it,
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Posted: August 07, 2017Categories: Garden Maintenance
This is the best time of year to analyse your garden and see where things can be improved. It’s when gaps appear in beds and borders, crops tussle with each other for space and the panes in the greenhouse crack under the ever-burgeoning force o
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Posted: July 05, 2017Categories: Garden Maintenance
Gardening is great – obviously, or you and I wouldn't be here now - but sometimes a day away is also nice. However, the garden is never far away even when t
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Posted: June 27, 2017Categories: Garden Maintenance
You are Not Alone
Just when you think it is safe to walk around the garden, brew in hand to inspect and admire your efforts, you notice a gnarled shoot on your lupins. Suddenly your roses look sticky, holes are noticed in potato leaves and