This is proving to be a very strange year in the garden. Everything seems a little muddled up. I’ve been waiting for my sunflowers to bloom up at the allotment for what seems like months now, but this week, finally, one has. Given what a gloomy week this is proving to be weather-wise, a welcome…
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Having had “One of those days”, I am so grateful that it began with beauty. The frost turned everything into works of art, from leaves lingering on table tops to compost not swept up. The hellebore leaves, harbingers of flowers to come, looked as if someone had taken a tipex pen to them and outlined…
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