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Category Archives: pruning

A figgy pudding

February 29, 2016

Spent a happy day today pruning a large and rather unwieldy fig tree. This seems to be a theme of …

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Hedging my bets #2

January 25, 2011

So having established that I have the wildlife habitat equivalent of the Mona Lisa around my garden and if I …

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GOOPs February

February 1, 2010

Notes to self: 1) In winter, branches on apple trees are full of water and therefore VERY heavy.2) You know …

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Ouch

November 23, 2009

There’s one thing they don’t tell you about gardening before you start: you only find out once you’re well and …

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A tale of gardening failure

November 10, 2009

My poor apple trees. I was raking up the leaves they’ve so generously been scattering all over my chicken run, …

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Inspiration from West Dean #3

October 19, 2009

If you thought training fruit was a simple matter of arranging the branches in a sort of fan-shape against a …

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The bamboo boogie

March 25, 2009

You may already know that I’m no fan of bamboo. The trouble with urging people to dig up all their …

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Wrestling wisteria

February 6, 2009

Look what I took on this week… Actually I shouldn’t have taken it on at all, being as I’m hopelessly …

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Summer-pruning roses

August 27, 2008

About this time I find all my roses, and everyone else’s too, are getting a bit wayward. They’ve mostly finished …

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Scary gardening

May 5, 2008

I got called a scary gardener the other day. That was by a client of mine when she saw what …

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