This post nearly didn’t happen. I’ve spent the past two weeks picking tomatoes with nephews, changing computers and filling in forms that require me to go in to brutal detail about my current health, or lack thereof. The nephews were delightful but exhausting, the rest just exhausting, and it has left me feeling a tad…
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I love my pond. Its almost 6 years old now, and it has been attracting wildlife to my garden from the first day it had water, even though we filled it by hose from the tap, so the water was full of chlorine etc. Its not very big, and although it has a surface area…
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I wasn’t going to bother with an End of Month View post for this month, partly because I wasn’t sure Helen was going to host the meme this month, with it being New Year’s Eve, and partly because it is so grey and dank out there the prospect of photographing the garden in its current…
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(This post comes with apologies to those still struggling to garden in a drought, as these photos all show how rain-drenched my own garden has been these past few days…) The ‘End of Month View’ meme, started by Patient Gardener (thank you!) has been great for helping me focus on getting my garden in better…
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