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  • Annual Flower Show

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    In the previous garden one of my proudest achievements was to have something in flower all year round and in such a small space that’s not easy. There are times …

  • Garden Snippets

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    With so many things going on in the garden all at once I’ve got snippets of pictures and tag lines; almost like the news headlines. We start with a daylily; …

  • On the Opening of Roses

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    A few posts ago I wrote about a June trip to Mottisfont, home of the National Collection of old-fashioned roses, where the overall effect was so overwhelming, it gave me an out-of-body …

  • Unmixed Lilies

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    A while back I cleared out a very small border that had become choked with carex grass and stumps of old buddleia. It was only a few feet long and …

  • Mottisfont

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    Deep in the Hampshire countryside, in the midst of quintessentially English villages with thatched roofs and timber frames lies an unassuming place, where the crystal clear waters of the River …

  • The Clematis Montana

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    People are continually reminding me how dreadful I am with Clematis and how they always die – sometimes before I even get them to the check-out. Well, this particular clematis is …

  • Pictures and Stories 3

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    This is probably the finally instalment of “Pictures and Stories” for now. I’m almost caught up with garden progress but there is still the “grand reveal” coming sometime in the …

  • Pictures and Stories 2

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    This post continues on with the theme of pictures and short stories. Here is another set of five; again, in no particular order with no particular pattern we have foliage …

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