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2016

  • A Spring Triptych

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    There’s too much going on the garden to be able to write about it and still keep up. Even a scrolling news ticker would fly by so quickly it would …

  • Doing the Front Border – Again

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    It was all supposed to look so beautiful. A gleaming white picket fence, a formal half-moon, edged with naughtily ruffled thyme behind which were balls of lavender, then a mass …

  • Fruits of Labour

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    Last year we finished creating “Fruit Avenue” a long border running the length of the garden and which is sixteen metres long and two wide, it really is an avenue. …

  • Moody March

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    After a very wet but mild winter, we’re now in March and the weather should be warming up. I’m not alone in thinking this as the Camellias and Magnolias will …

  • The Great Wide Crack

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    This post is not about my posterior. Instead, it is about one my favourite things: terracotta pots. I love pots in general, I love having them on the patio. I …

  • Raising Ferns From Spores

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    Now here’s a post that has been 18 months in the making and that is, “the growing of ferns from spores”. Ferns are such ancient plants that flowers and seeds hadn’t …

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