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July 2014

  • Look at Those Front Trugs

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    Several posts ago I wrote about how I quickly and rather cheaply added instant impact to the front garden by planting up six trugs with clematis and some bedding. As …

  • Out Foxed

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    Patter..patter…scrape Patter…patter. The Juliet balcony doors are open but the curtains are closed. Scrape..patter… I reluctantly come to, half awake I open my eyes just briefly enough to realise that it …

  • Update That Front Border

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    The semi-circular border in the front garden is coming along nicely. It’s been about four months since I first started work on it and one and a half months since …

  • Tilford Cottage Garden

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    On a particular day in the recent past we were dodging deluges as we made our way to Tilford cottage garden, open with the National Gardens Scheme (NGS). This was the …

  • Here be Dragons

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    It was a gorgeous sunny day and what better way to spend it than to pick a local garden centre and head down to see what was on offer. It …

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