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Rain, Rain Go Away…
Please don’t laugh, but little more than a year ago, the whole nation was in a bit of a tizz predicting a serious drought. The worst in 30 years some said. Some sort of joke do you think? In fact we wrote a little post about it and also some basic [...]
Very Lovely Lemon Verbena
I’ve always loved the smell of lemon verbena, which I’ve encouraged by gently rubbing the leaves between my fingers. But it hasn’t always been in my herb garden, and not on the Woolly top 10 list of herbs mainly because its one of those herbs I wasn’t quite sure what [...]
Shady Lady ;-)
I’m planning to grow at least some of my own vegetables or fruit, but we only have a small garden at the front, a tiny little yard at the back and a couple of window sills which are in shade at least part of the day. It seems that many [...]
Hard Lessons
Argh… think I’ve might have just learned the hard way. Last week’s lovely warm sunny spell tempted me to put out onto the patio, all those seedlings that I had been growing on windowsills indoors. I know it’s called ‘hardening off’ and it’s supposed to be a gradual process, but the [...]
Fringe Event!
Aww… hasn’t your ticket for the Royal Gala at the Chelsea Flower Show turned up? It seems more and more you have to be one of the people ‘in the know’ of either an RHS member, or someone with a big bag of corporate tickets. It’s a shame, because whether you [...]
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