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8 months ago

Garden Journal - A Bit of Autumn Tidying It's a strange thing, but I always seem to do more gardening in autumn, when the whole thing looks scruffy and needs to be tidied up. I guess summer is a busy time with lots…

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6 months ago

Garden Journal - Cutting Back the Pond Irises One of the jobs I should do every winter is pay attention to the pond and cut back the pond irises. But the last couple of winters I haven't done it aggressively enough. The…

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10 days ago

Garden Journal - Ladybirds To The Rescue ! This is just a quick follow-up on yesterday's post. Remember I mentioned we had a major aphid problem on the calendula ? Well no more. The litle guy in the photo below is my…

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30 days ago

Garden Journal - Things Are Starting To Happen ! What a strange year ! After last year being wet and cold pretty much all through followed by a mild winter, everything in our garden seems to be happening incredibly fast right…

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about 1 month ago

Spring Garden Journal - My Favourite Flowers Turned Up It's been far too long since I did a garden update ! The truth is, my poor garden has been terribly neglected for the last few months while I had to focus all my energy on some…

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5 months ago

Garden Journal - Getting Light To The Far End Of The Garden This has been a project I've been meaning to do all winter. It's happened over the course of about three weeks, in between work and in the dry days between winter storms.…

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7 months ago

A Plague of Mushrooms Out of nowhere, a huge plague of mushrooms appeared in a neglected corner of the garden. They are next to my office, where the birch tree used to be. We had to have it removed…

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8 months ago

Garden Journal - Tidying a Neglected Corner of the Garden (and Cat Antics) If there's one part of our garden that gets neglected the most, it's the far end, to the left of the pond. Now our tree surgeon has trimmed the large bush that overshadowed the…

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8 months ago

Garden Journal - Walnuts ! We've got a walnut tree on the front flowerbed. It wasn't deliberate, the squirrels gave it to us when they dropped a walnut they'd stolen from a tree in the garden of a house…

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11 months ago

Garden Journal - Harvesting The Basil The basil in our greenhouse has been growing like a weed ! So yesterday my wife harvested a load of it. There's still quiet a bit left on the plant, so it should grow back and…

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