I’ve been trying to get around to all those gardening tasks that lurk, making you feel guilty. Re-potting plants, clearing pots of dead plants, sweeping up the debris produced by the above. I’ve not had much luck (skill!) at growing basil in the past, though I have since learnt that it is almost certainly that…
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Its summer, despite the recent cooler wet spell, and the borders are full of echinacea and drumstick alliums. Despite all this loveliness, I am also on budwatch again. I missed the emergence of the first of the Japanese Anemone flowers, I just turned round yesterday and there it was, the first bloom where before there…
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Late last week TNG and I took time out to go in search of bluebells. We are lucky enough to live very close to the Lower Woods Nature Reserve – known locally as Wickwar Woods. Managed by a combination of the Gloucestershire and Avon Willdlife Trusts – and backed by numerous volunteers – this is…
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As I drift from sleep to wakefulness each morning I put the radio on to hear the latest news. It’s not been much fun recently, between the Libyan crisis and the Japanese nuclear issues, spending cuts and murders – although as an avid Liverpool supporter I was very happy to hear about how we thrashed…
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