The garden is looking a little tired and cold now. The pond border is largely bleached of colour, enlivened by the evergreen leaves of the Hellebores and the impressively tough snapdragons which are clinging on. The Hakonechloa macra is still showing some remnants of autumn gold, but everything else is pale, like the frost that…
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I took a trip to a neighbouring market town on Saturday, the plan being that I would install a wireless router in my Father-in-law’s office. This failed due to boring technical incompatibilities, and the trip would have been a complete waste of time and effort had it not been market day. A local nursery was…
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