Planting witchetty grubs
Not much gardening going on yesterday: it was blowing a hooley again and though it wasn’t exactly raining hard, what …
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La vie en magnolia
Just back from a little sojourn in France, where I was helping my mum look for a little pied á terre …
Wordless Wednesday: Spring flowers
As seen at the RHS Early Spring Plant Fair
It’s a boy!
Oh dear. One of my girls has turned into a boy. I’m talking hens: or rather, in this case, cockerels. …
A figgy pudding
Spent a happy day today pruning a large and rather unwieldy fig tree. This seems to be a theme of …
Let sowing commence…
Seedlings coming along nicely! Here’s the tray of mixed salad seedlings I put in at the beginning of February. Alongside …
Snowdrop heaven
Spotted these on the Avon Bulbs stand at the RHS Spring Flower show last week, so I thought I’d share. …
Chelsea 2016: What to look out for
The RHS launched the 2016 Chelsea Flower Show in style yesterday: we had Alan Titchmarsh interviewing Mary Berry and canapés …
New Year’s non-resolutions
I have decided to make a New Year’s Resolution. It seems to be the traditional thing to do, so heck, …
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