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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“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” Juliet, in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Act II Scene ii I’ve been pondering plant names recently. I love The Bard, but in this case, at least in gardening, I have to disagree. Yes, rename your favourite rose “thugwum”…
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I am having something of a dilemma. I love Eupatorium ‘Chocolate’. There is a fluffy delicacy about the pure white flowers, and they appear in Autumn, when so much else is giving up the ghost. I love the dark stems, and how they contrast with the flowers. I particularly love the deep purple foliage they…
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It’s pouring with rain today, putting paid to any idea of my getting on with the various outside jobs on my list. Instead I am finding myself looking back over the pictures I have taken in the garden this year and thinking about what I’ve learnt. I’ve written before about how I hated Pelargoniums, but…
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