Yesterday I finally got round to some serious seed sowing, and have now totally filled the shelf thingy that is cluttering up the dining room – south facing patio doors, so prime seed-nursery real estate. Edibles: Dwarf Runner Bean ‘Pickwick’ Garlic chives Baby sweetcorn Courgette F1 Hybrid ‘Soleil’ Butternut Squash Pretties: Zinnia ‘Red Spider’ Zinnia…
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Inspired by patientgardener’s latest post I decide to get in on the act, in the hope that it spurs me on to action re the area around my pond. Hopefully these pics will remind me that I really need to plant loads of crocus, and possibly some other spring bulbs, so that it doesn’t look…
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Sowed Verbena Bonariensis, Snapdragon Liberty Classic Crimson, Ammi Majus, Bupleurum rotundifolium ‘Griffithii’, Larkspur Consolida Dark Blue before the wind and the rain sent me scurrying for cover.
My excuse for not posting for months (and months) is that, in my guise as a web designer, I kept intending to put together a site that included my garden blogging, but which also held a calendar for me to leave reminders for myself on and record what I did when. But I kept getting…
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Well, have been very lax about keeping this up to date. Still no sign of the annual seedlings, or the second lot I tried under the Magnolia. This patch is rife with roots, so will need very careful under planting – I’m thinking geraniums, or possibly aquelegias. The patio is now completely taken over by…
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