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2018

  • Midsummer Musings

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    It’s mid-summer, with late summer creeping in and the garden has been baked with hot sunshine for the last several weeks. I declare the borders officially out of control, but …

  • The Yellow Green Light

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    Goodness, has it been a whole month already!? Time really does fly, especially in the summer months when the days are long, hopefully warm and all free time is spent …

  • Impossible Chelsea

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    In a double whammy of gardening gloriousness, I went to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show for the first time. It was an incredible, exhausting, overwhelming, heaving, wonderful day. Thankfully I …

  • Keukenhof Tulip Garden

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    There is a garden in the Netherlands, just outside the little town of Lisse. It opens for just two months of the year in the spring and in this short …

  • Three Strikes and Out

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    Weather-wise, we’ve had a terrible start to the gardening season for 2018. Winter long outstayed its welcome and in fact returned several times to make sure we wouldn’t forget it. …

  • While the Cat’s Away

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    I’ve recently returned from a week’s holiday. It was the week where the UK went from 5°C to 25°C in the space of a few days. It remained very hot …

  • Only Five Minutes

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    So you’ve just seen this come up, why don’t you take a quick read? It’ll only take you five minutes. The Banksiae rose needs pulling out of the eaves again, …

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