The Garden in December 2025
As we enter the first month of the winter, as I wrote last month, I am trying very hard to concentrate on the best things that the month has to...
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The Garden in November 2025
I always seem to struggle to be optimistic about November with its shortening days, lack of plant growth and many shades of grey! I suppose that it is also the...
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The Garden in October 2025
Well, here we are in the ‘Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’ and what a season it is! John Keats in his ‘Ode to Autumn’ really did the season justice...
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The Garden in September 2025 - ‘Into Autumn’
After, let’s just say, an ‘interesting’ summer I am, as always, very pleased to see the arrival of September and I’m hoping for a more ‘normal’ month with a mixture...
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The Garden in August 2025
Well, here we are already in the last month of the summer which I know some gardeners feel is a difficult month with often parched and brown lawns, prolific weed...
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The Garden in July 2025- ‘Everything’s coming up Roses’!
What a perfect way to sum up both June and July? My thanks to the one and only Ethel Merman for putting these words into my head...
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The Garden in June 2025- ‘June is bustin’ out all over’
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I think this month’s title just sums up the garden in June perfectly and my thanks to Rodgers and Hammerstein for giving me the line from one of their songs...
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The Garden in May 2025- ‘The Darling Buds of May’
At first thought this phrase is often associated with the charming novel by H. E. Bates but as with many of our best-known sayings it is actually from William Shakespeare...
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The Garden in April 2025
‘Oh, to be in Wales now that April’s here’ with apologies to Robert Browning. Quite right too, where else would you want to be at this time of year?
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The Garden in March 2025- ‘Marching into Spring!’
At last, the gardening year can really begin as the days lengthen, the weather improves and we, as well as the soil, begin to warm!
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The Garden in February 2025
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Although the shortest month of the year, February does have some good features and fantastic gardening jobs if we are prepared to look for them...
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The Garden in January 2025
Well, here we are again at the beginning of yet another gardening year and even though there is not a great deal to be done in the garden so early...
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The Garden in December 2024- ‘Rounding off the Year’
I have to admit that the December garden with its short days and being at the mercy of the rather unpredictable winter weather is often best viewed from inside the...
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