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Bulbs and Mysteries
This week’s post features two bulbs and two mysteries (one of them being a bulbous mystery)! For more gardening posts, check out Six on Saturday by Garden Ruminations, where you’ll find amazing posts about gardens around the world. Lily-of-the-Valley The lily-of-the-valley (Convallaria majalis) I received from my client in exchange for some of our endless…
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Garden and Terrace
Everything is doing quite well in our garden and on my terrace at the moment. For this week’s Six on Saturday, hosted by Jim at Garden Ruminations, I am featuring flowering plants and their insect visitors from both places. Ajuga I got a load of extra raspberries from a gardening friend, and Ajuga (and some…
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Violets and Herbs
I’m spending the week in Switzerland, but I managed to take enough pictures for this week’s Six on Saturday, hosted by Jim at Garden Ruminations, before setting off. This week, I’m featuring two plants from the Violet (Violaceae) family, three edible plants, and some of my growing seedlings. Wild Violet I found this single little…
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Stabilising and Blooming
The builders cleared much of the bottom section of the garden when they were installing the fence. Unfortunately, this has made the earth movement problem more acute. The slope from the middle section to the bottom is slowly sliding down. We need to stabilise it with plants as quickly as possible, which is what we’ll…
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Planting and Digging
My Six on Saturday this week, hosted by Jim at Garden Ruminations, is all about the process. I spent most of yesterday at the house, working on different bits of the garden. I thought this was a good opportunity to feature the sections of our new garden and what we plan to do (or have…
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Blooming and Sprouting
Spring has definitely arrived! All of a sudden, everything seems to be shooting up and starting to bloom. So, here are six things from my garden, as part of Six on Saturday hosted by Jim at Garden Ruminations. Cyclamen This cyclamen is still flowering beautifully. It’s been going for more than a month, so I’m…
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Learning and Growing
This week, I’m mainly featuring a strange assortment of ‘works in progress’. It’s a time of preparation in my garden and on my terrace: lots of things are almost ready to bloom, but not quite there. Others are slowly starting to germinate and grow inside, and still others are being hardened off. Transplanting Trying to…
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Springtime Shoots and February Flowers
Things are starting to happen in the garden. More and more plants are flowering, and my indoor seed “factory” is starting to look exciting. Even More Crocuses In addition to the special crocuses we bought last week, all the regular ones on my terrace and in the community garden are starting to flower. I’m…
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Croconuts and Galantophiles
Last Saturday, we attended the Myddelton House Snowdrop Sale. We didn’t realise until a few days before that this was an important event for galantophiles (snowdrop lovers), who apparently come from all over the country and even abroad. Fortunately, there were still plenty of plants left when we arrived at 11am. We weren’t going to…
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Garden Firsts and Garden Seconds
This is a year of firsts and seconds for me. I started getting serious about gardening last year, but I still had no prospect of having an actual garden back then. This year, I’m growing dozens of new-to-me species, along with favourites from last year. This post is part of Six on Saturday, hosted by…
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