
My Top 10 Evergreen Shrubs
The holly and the ivy, when they are both full grown…etc etc….my, how we enjoyed singing the Christmas carols only a couple of weeks ago. The anticipation of Christmas gets earlier every year,
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The holly and the ivy, when they are both full grown…etc etc….my, how we enjoyed singing the Christmas carols only a couple of weeks ago. The anticipation of Christmas gets earlier every year,
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At the time of writing this the rain is battering the borders flat and I have no desire to nip out and see how the garden is doing – whatever it is, it can do it on its own.
Read moreNest Boxes in Your Garden: How to Use Them
If you want to attract birds into your garden then providing nest boxes where they can shelter and hide from the weather in the winter months and nurture and protect their young in the spring and summer month is the perfect choice.
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Of all the months of the gardening year, November ranks as one of my least favourite.
Read moreLast September I wrote about how we don’t really need fancy arbours and pergolas in our gardens
Read moreJust as we thought we would be dodging tumbleweed rolling down the streets, along came an inch or two of rain on Sunday 29th July, enough to postpone our worst fears of our gardens transforming into deserts.
Read moreWe are in the grip of a June heatwave and if it continues as forecast, The Summer of Twenty Eighteen will be recalled with the same awe as The Summer of Seventy Six.
Read moreWhat better way to spend a summer day than to visit a garden or agricultural show?
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May has to be my favourite time of year in the garden. The Beast from the East and Beast 2 were only 6 and 8 weeks ago,
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