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2020

  • Queen of Night

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    There’s a plant I have, sat in the dining room that goes by some very evocative names, Reine de la Nuit, the Queen of Night, Night Blooming Cereus, Brahma Kamal, …

  • Pine Pedicure

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    I was going to do a “spot the difference” but I couldn’t find the “before” picture. Naturally, I didn’t take one immediately before the change, but I know I took …

  • Smells Like Holiday

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    The patio is a lot of work, it’s a lot of maintenance, lifting, moving and arranging of pots, preparation, cleaning, monitoring, watering, mulching, feeding, de-pesting, planting, soil-mixing. It’s one of …

  • Decanting the Compost Heap

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    I always thought we had the compost heap for years and years. Turns out – after hunting through old photos – that it was made around this time only three …

  • Fences and Pathfinding

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    A few weeks ago we last left off with the penultimate border edged with some stone work, a new path laid and just waiting on the compost heap to be …

  • Picture Snaps 2

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    I ducked out between rain showers recently to grab some pictures of the garden as it races and grows out of control before my eyes. We first start with the …

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