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Let there be wreaths! - [image: Front door Christmas wreath] I do love a foliage wreath on our front door, and as a result I've accumulated an enormous stash of decorative bits ...
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Algae to Fly High on the Ignis Space Mission - Volcanic microalgae will take to the skies alongside Polish astronaut Sławosz Uznański, during his 2025 Ignis mission to the International Space Station.6 days ago
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The Year That Was - My feeling about this past season encapsulated in one image. By now of course I have shrugged off this lousy year and am filled with optimism for the sum...
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eDEN Hub Curve - eDEN Garden Rooms launched a new range, named the Hub during the early stages of the 2020 lockdown. We profiled it back then, but have had numerous e...
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Garden Bloggers Bloom Day – May 2020 - It’s been a while since I posted a Garden Bloggers Bloom Day (GBBD) post but with my renewed blogging and a sunny morning I thought I would post away. My a...4 years ago
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Millions Missing - It's International ME Awareness day today. I've decided to take part in #MillionsMissing - a global campaign which has been happening on this day for sev...
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Epimediums - Courtesy of new drive and pathway, we now have a nice, but narrow, border full of shiny new topsoil. It's going to be dry and it's relatively shady, and I ...6 years 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 ...7 years ago
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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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Judging Iowa, Part II - “By allowing us to survive, the efficiency of intelligence also offers us the possibility of complexity without foundation, thought without usefulness, an...
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To our American Neighbours--Happy Independence Day! - Yes, I know our neighbours to the south spell neighbours as 'neighbors'. That's not the point... Wherever you are today, whether travelling or at home,...
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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...9 years ago
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July in pictures - Echium "Blue Bedder" - one of the bee's favourites. Summer stunner: Helenium "Sahin's Early Flowerer" Scabious "Cambridge Blue" Hoverflies out in go...
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Hand care: tip-top products for gardeners' hands - One of the things I always look at when I meet a gardener is their hands. I expect signs of hard work, the odd nick from a thorn, the thickened, even callo...9 years 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 ...10 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...10 years ago
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POST-BELLUM POPPYCOCK - Oh dearie me - another embarrassing gap between posts. Please forgive. Field Poppies *Papaver rhoeas, *on set-aside land in Thurlby, Lincolnshire *cir...
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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...11 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 pict...
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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...11 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...13 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...13 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...14 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...15 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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9 comments:
Quelle joie!
Not sure that's right, but you know what I mean
Anonjan
Such a good rose, I had one for about 20 years on a north wall in virtual shade. Only thing that did for it was an over zealous neighbour's application of weed killer his side the fence :(
If only you could smell a post. Mind you, I suppose there are many blog posts one wouldn't want to sniff.
ours apparued a couple of days ago, and joy is pretty unconfined about it here, I can tell you.
Is this the same one that Lisa Tarbuck was on about on BBC coverage of Chelsea?
Looks lovely, I dont have any climbing roses but having seen a pergola in a friend's garden covered in them this week I am beginning to think I might get some.
Patient gardener! i have just been over at Patientgardener marvelling at the second part of your geranium series, just thinking "god I'd love to know so much about plants," and then there you are saying you'd love to get some climbing roses, which makes me feel better that you don't know absolutely everything :-)
Zoe, neighbours are just annoying, unless they hate gardening and mostly just stay inside the house. No not really, actually I like most of my neighbours. Even the one who burned down everyone's fences having a bonfire that she lit with, er, petrol
Ps i have to say that i've been thinking about expanding the Baklava collection, and the one I hear recommended the most is Gertrude Jekyll. Any others I ought to go mad for?
Gertrude Jekyll is a fab bought slightly gaunt (in my garden rose). She is a very clear pink, and the feagrance is unsurpassed. Other David Austin Roses that do well for me, are William Shakespeare 2000, a fabulous huge bloomed deep red/crimson with a massive fragrance,that I have growing up an obelisk. William Morris has made a 6ft x 6ft shrub, and although not as fragrant has beautiful apricot/copper fading to a deep cream bloom. Falstaff and Othello are both great if you want a deep red, and v fragrant too. Othello is the darker. Geoff Hamilton is a good pink too, not unlike Gertrude Jekyll, but with a much more cupped rose shape.
Was thinking of posting a few on the blog today, so take a peek?
wickedd.......
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