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Garden Bloggers' Blooms Day: Persicaria 'Fat Domino' - This plant always makes me smile at this time of the year: it's a reminder of a wonderful afternoon at Knoll Gardens in the company of owner Neil Lucas's...
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How well would we cope with rationing? - I’ve always been fascinated by the Home Front, the enlistment of every man, woman and child in the British Isles in an effort to beat Hitler through food r...1 week ago
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A room of one's own: Why everybody needs a garden office - An excellent piece in the Guardian by Heidi Scrimegeour asks "many small business owners run their operations from a corner of the kitchen table, but co...2 weeks ago
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Let's hear it for the garden volunteers - An army of volunteers keep the horticulture industry afloat. Let’s recognise their contribution, argues Robbie Blackhall-Miles I am a volunteer. For the ...4 weeks ago
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What makes a good border? - So what makes a good border these days? A thought that dogged me on my recent visit to gardens predominantly in Cheshire. And what do we mean by border? Is...
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Cucumber Numbers - Here are half a dozen that need eating now. That's about 6 and a half feet of cucumber. And there are a dozen more near this size on the vines. And I've al...
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Hungry Birds - Hokkaido's Steller sea eagles - .. Only 16 months after the event I finally post some pics of our boat trip to photograph sea eagles in Rausu, Hokkaido, Japan in February 2016. I might e...
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Forgetfulness And Living With Chronic Illness - Yesterday? I totally forgot it was ME Awareness day. Today? I can't think clearly enough to write a blog post about it. This is the sort of thing which ha...3 months ago
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catch us the foxes - A family of foxes has moved in under his allotment shed, a vixen and three cubs. We've seen her - skinny, tired looking, the prettiest face, leaving her...
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Aged and Mellow - Mmm, aged and mellow! There's nothing a greenhorn can do for me Cause my older daddy suits me to a T Now I like my men like I like my whiskey Ooh, aged and m...
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Pansies, milkweed & daffs, oh my! - Yes, it's been a while since I've posted. All is well...just very, very busy. There isn't a lot of time these days to post free stuff, or even to donate a...
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Still here - Sorry about the lack of posts this year, I just don't seem to have the enthusiasm for blogging at the moment. Still gardening of course, and now at the end...1 year ago
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This blog is no longer being updated - Please head over to jane.perrone.com for my latest posts and contact information.1 year ago
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New Year, New Blog - Thank you to everyone who has read and continues to read my blog here. For the past six years this blog has been a labour of love and a fantastic way to ...
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BOMBING SYRIA - This blog is not just about gardening, it's about what I'm thinking while I'm gathering leaves and burying bulbs. This is what I'm thinking about our gover...1 year ago
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Leaning Tower of Potatoes - Okay, so when most people say (write, text, etc.) “potato tower,” they’re referring to some variation on that time-honored tower-of-tires method, in which ...3 years ago
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May begins with sun then lots of rain - May started off very sunny and warm, and though the sun highlighted the large weeds in my borders I looked forward to getting on with some serious gardenin...3 years ago
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To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow - I’ve been quiet here for a long time. I have still been gardening – more furiously than ever in fact – just mainly in my dad’s vegetable garden now. Dad’s ...4 years ago
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For future reference, see Awkward Hill - I moved from Wandsworth, in south-west London, in November 2012, and I now live in the Cotswolds. You can read about my garden there at Tales from Awkward H...4 years ago
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View from Federal Twist has moved - View from Federal Twist has moved from Blogger to WordPress. To reach the new View from Federal Twist, click on the following link: *www.federaltwist.com* ...
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Winter Beauty - A bench or table smothered in white snow is transforming. Lines may be accentuated as in the table and chairs scene; creating a surreal view. Or the pictu...
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The Constant Gardener has moved house - I've got a nice shiny new place to blog - you'll find it here. Please come on over and visit: if you're an email subscriber you will also need to re-subscr...4 years ago
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The Hunting of the Salad - Getting my salad together for February was quite an ordeal after that prolonged spell of heavy frost. Gone were most of the plants that so amply provided m...
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A recipe for disaster - I love a good typo more than most, so was over the moon when steered towards the latest (December 3) issue of Amateur Gardening. There’s an almighty howler...5 years ago
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The end of busy Lizzies as we know them? - Is it the end of fabulous displays of busy Lizzies like these? I've been doing a lot of question time roadshows across the country recently, and one questi...
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New Blog - Hello all. I've decided to try out a new home for my blog. It's over here: http://mariephillipswriter.tumblr.com/ I hope you like it. Please adjust your s...6 years ago
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Tour de Francophile - Yes, it's time for another year of helicopter shots, crazy motorcycle near-misses and weird French love messages whitewashed on the road. Michel lovehe...7 years ago
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I have A New address! - *Terra farmer has moved to a new home:) The new* *address is http://kanak7.wordpress.com/* Would love to have all my blogger friends visit my new page...7 years ago
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It never rains, but it pours ..... - Aren't these stunning? They smell heavenly too. The lovely Victoria sent them to me a couple of weeks ago They say bad news comes in threes; I seem to be l...
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Fuchsia Futures - F. 'Dancing Flame' On Tuesday, I went to visit the fabulous gardens at RHS Wisley again, spurred on by the fact that this week they are holding their Augus...
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Who should replace Monty Don on Gardeners' World?
2 comments:
Is that a straw in her hand?!!
Good lady!
Ha ha ha I hadn't even spotted that. She did have friends with her, so I don't suppose she was going to neck the whole thing herself...
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