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September Gardening News

Posted on 1st September 2015

Autumn shuffles forward beneath the distraction of muddled days and leaves can only wait as their gloss slides away. There is a fading and evidence everywhere of the nursed wounds of molestation. Almost everything has been visited by disease or pest. The plums and apples, with not much weight, show the scars from exiting grubsRead More

July Gardening News

Posted on 2nd July 2015

And still the breeze continues. The last month has been fair and planting has continued throughout, but so has the watering, indeed it has been essential to the settling of every new plant. The breeze has been so drying. Our pond dried out in the middle of the month. As we move forward there isRead More

June Gardening News

Posted on 1st June 2015

Was it me, or was that a quick month? Perhaps it was the Bank holidays, or maybe it was the rocket launch, the release of the pent up energies of thousands of gardeners. It certainly hasn’t been a bad month, a bit of a mish mash punctuated by one or two teasing frosts, but weRead More

May Gardening News

Posted on 1st May 2015

What a crazy month that was, no sooner here than gone. I think that the Easter punctuation allowed extra days to pass by. It has been a fairly kind month and things have wanted to grow. The new leaf appeared across the landscape and suddenly we were into the growing season. As we move forwardRead More

April Gardening News

Posted on 1st April 2015

So, the bleakness rolled on with an occasional punctuation of teasing sunshine that suggested momentarily that Spring was coming. The races passed almost unscarred with rain at the last, but there was spite in the wind and today it has moved once more to the east. The clocks have changed though and we have moreRead More

March Gardening News

Posted on 1st March 2015

What a teasing month we have been through, there were one or two days when you really did feel that spring was knocking. The T shirt drawer was opened and I skipped excitedly about the garden (yes, even at my age). Only to be knocked back to reality by a biting wind, that had meRead More

February Gardening News

Posted on 1st February 2015

So, the New Year got off to an interesting start, nothing too heavy, some cold nights and a fair amount of water. There has been surface water sitting in all of the fields close to us for several weeks, I guess as we put down more hard areas the water has to run somewhere. IRead More

January Gardening News

Posted on 5th January 2015

Here we are again. Another year older……but what the heck. Every year we reflect, on the highs and lows, it all started too wet and finished too dry, but overall not a bad season. So, the next one begins. It is all rather exciting actually. I have spent the last few evenings in front ofRead More

December Gardening News

Posted on 1st December 2014

It’s December. The unseasonal weather continued across November, the rodent numbers kept increasing and when it rained it did so with a vengeance. The method of delivery is very varied, there is the misty rain that we barely notice, that sneaks through clothing and drenches, and about which we become aware at the moment thatRead More

November Gardening News

Posted on 1st November 2014

Well, that was a curious month wasn’t it ? Wet, blustery and all in all rather too mild. The wet brought a few leaves down, but the mildness has created a hiatus in the planting calendar, with so much revived bedding continuing to dominate borders and tubs, thereby delaying much of the planting. So getRead More

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