Tweet We spent most of last weekend in the garden, trying to tackle weeds but also as part of our 30 green days challenge trying to make the garden more attractive to wildlife. Foxes,…
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Tweet I took this photo of a rose (one of my favourites) in our front garden on Sunday morning; the sky was blue (briefly), the air was crisp, and the rose looked so stunning,…
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Tweet On Tuesday I went along to the Chelsea Flower Show 2013. I’m ashamed to say that despite the fact that I’m a South West Londoner born and bred, this was my first visit…
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Tweet Our garden (and patio) is absolutely covered in forget-me-nots right now – I don’t mean plantain (not the banana kind), which have darker blue flowers and big leaves and are actually weeds and…
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Tweet When my son’s New Zealand grandmother was over a few years ago she was amazed that I was successfully growing orchids. I can’t grow any other kind of house plant, mind you –…
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Tweet Ages and ages ago I took a photo for Silent Sunday. It was one of those photos where everything just came together at the right time: a flawless rose, a sunny day. Ever…
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Tweet Let me ‘fess up straight away and say I was quite a Molly Ringwald fan in the Eighties. I had The Breakfast Club poster on my my bedroom wall (which was, erm, pink),…
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Tweet This rhododendron started off as purple, but this year, as you can see, it’s gone quite pink. The stamen look like pearls, don’t they?…
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Tweet Or not, because the truth is I’m very much a Fair Weather Gardener. I like doing a bit of pottering and I don’t mind mowing the lawn, but any thing that feels too…
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Tweet I grew up in a house with a huge garden and some of my favourite childhood memories are spending long hot summers playing badminton and tennis, making tents and generally causing mayhem in…