Category: gardening
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A moment in time: how does your garden grow
Gardening isn’t just about flowers but as the weather in the UK is a month behind my flowers are still glorious. I have lots of daisies, cosmos, budlias and my absolute favourite anemones. Now don’t get me wrong I still love my dahlias and sweet peas and they are still going strong but my new…
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Drying and hanging my herbs
My herbs are getting a bit leggy, so I decided to give them a bit of a trim. I have beautiful thyme which is my favourite herb and also some oregano which has started to flower. With oregano it’s best to eat it before the flowers but you can still eat it. The flowers are…
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Garden series Part 3: Planning and paying
So I have big plans for the garden. It’s all about layering and planting. so throughout spring and summer the garden is flooded with colour. Planning now means I get to enjoy the garden next summer. I will still keep a mix of pots but my main focus is on the plant bed and adding…
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A big day for little legs: plants galore
My friend asked me if we wanted to go for a coffee, it’s been a while since we spent any time together. So I suggested we meet at the the park which is filirther away, then go for a pub lunch. Frank walked for an hour before we headed to the nursery. His little legs…
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Garden series Part two: planning my garden for next year
More flowers and plants for today. After realising that my garden only has flowers on the deck I need to work on my flower beds. So I have done a bit of research on gardener ms world and reading my gardening books. It is really making me want a green house so I can pop…
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Gardening series Part one: Planning my garden for next year
I am thrilled with my garden but my decking is full of flowers and my beds are just green. I love the green and the white wisteria when it blooms. I also love the pale yellow Rosa Banksiae and I know that it can more beautiful, more colour and flowers. It’s important to know what…
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Bringing the outside in
If you had asked me last year I would have told you that I don’t like flowers I prefer plant. Now this is true but part of my biophilic journey is bringing the outside in. Also the amount of flowers my garden is producing means that I have fresh flowers every other day and I…
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Collecting my English Bluebells seeds
My bluebells bloomed at the start of the year I have been waiting for these seedcases to dry out and it’s now July and they are just starting to dry and release. Bluebells self seed but these I want to give away to friends, I have English bluebells which are protected so it will be…
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Tackling my rose bush
I have talked many times about my rose bush, it’s huge. June’s rain has turned it into a monster again. It’s over 8 feet tall and wide and if you don’t keep on top of it it will fill the garden in a few weeks. It reminds of the rose bush in sleeping beauty… a…
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When it comes to gardening just let it grow
I planted my sweet peas late, they were sitting in the bathroom but not very happy. They took a while to sprout and then I put them outside to garden up and the weather changed. It started raining continuously and I though that maybe it was over for them. I used toilet rolls to separate…
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