Even I have to admit that November is not the most inspiring of months in the garden with its shortening days and often wet and windy weather, the trees shedding their leaves and colours in the beds and borders beginning to fade.
Posted on November 06, 2024
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In October autumn closes in on the garden and the winter beyond comes into focus as the growing season draws to a close but what a glorious closing it is!
Posted on October 02, 2024
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September, of course, sees the beginning of autumn but in many ways it is also a continuation of summer with its often warm and sunny days.
Posted on September 03, 2024
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August, the time of high summer and holidays, is also a time of transition between the ending of summer and the onset of autumn.
Posted on August 01, 2024
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Midsummer already- how on earth did we get here so quickly? July, the month of intense colours, full and exuberant beds and borders and also the delicious scents of summer.
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As June arrives and spring slips quietly away the glory of the early summer garden gathers pace. This is a month of roses and exuberant Clematis and beds and borders spilling over with the early flowering herbaceous perennials...
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May has to be one of the loveliest of months with the magic of the late spring flowers, the unstoppable growth of perennials and an air of plenty and fullness throughout the garden.
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By April we are well and truly into spring and as such it is surely one of the most exciting months of the year. Helped by longer days and higher angles of the sun as well as the often dramatic April showers the garden suddenly begins to look vibrant and alive...
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At last magical March has arrived and my ‘new’ book informs me that ‘as the weather improves and the soil warms, nature herself is stirred into action’.
Posted on February 28, 2024
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I’m certain that you will all be pleased to read that over the Christmas period I came across another book about gardening through the year and I am sure it will help me come up with some new ideas for future blogs.
Posted on January 31, 2024
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Firstly, may I wish you all the very best for 2024 not just in your gardens but for all that you are involved in. As I look forward to the new year but see all the problems which we face in this world of ours all I feel that I really know for certain is that...
Posted on December 29, 2023
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I love the optimism of my RHS ‘Gardening Through the Year’ book in which it says that December can be a wonderful month in the garden. Also that although the days are short, on the whole the weather is not too bad, with wonderfully clear, frosty, sunny days when it can be a pleasure to be out!
Posted on December 03, 2023
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