Seasonal tips, growing guides, and honest lessons from seven years of trial and error.
March always seems to be the point when the garden suddenly starts asking a lot from you all at once. There’s still winter tidying to finish,…
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Looking through old family albums made me realise my love of flowers and gardening probably did not appear out of nowhere.
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Early February in my garden is mostly rain, stalled jobs and trying not to lose momentum while the cornflowers, ranunculus and dahlia tubers all wait for a drier spell.
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Late January in my garden is a mixture of leggy seedlings, summer daydreaming and reminding myself that even the scruffiest jobs are still moving the season on.
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Garden Projects
Mid-January in my garden is all about small jobs that make spring feel a little closer: seed sowing, more ranunculus, bargain bulbs and plans for the new border.
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As the year comes to a close, I keep thinking about how much this little garden space has held.
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Growing & Planting
The run up to Christmas has been full of ordinary life things, which means the last few garden jobs are being done in whatever gaps I can find.
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It has taken until early December to get a proper weekend for bulb planting, but I am very glad I finally found the time.
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Growing & Planting
If you have been here a while, you will know I am more than capable of getting carried away when it comes to bulbs.
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Getting the dahlias lifted and tucked away is always a relief, even if I never quite want to admit the season is over.
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