Until last week I would have said I loved red in the garden. I would have felt no need to qualify this. Dahlia ‘Bishop of Auckland’ is one of my favourite plants. I love the Arctotis I have grown in pots this year, but by far my favourite is the deep orangey red one, ‘Flame’….
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I loved Nigel Colborn’s rant about colour, though my laughter was somewhat wry, as I have always been somewhat scared of colour. My sister was “The Artistic One ”, not to mention “The Stylish One”, and my Dad, who I worshipped, thought Dahlias were the ultimate in tasteless vulgarity. So I have always been cautious…
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OK, so June and July disappeared in a flurry of activity in my other life as a web designer and frankly it is a miracle I didn’t kill off all the tomatoes. I did kill off the courgettes, which although delicious succumbed to powdery mildew far too early. But I’ve finally had a little time…
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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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