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  • That Front Border

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    There is a narrow semi-circular border at the front that forms part of the in-out drive imaginatively called, “That Front Border”. When we arrived, it was planted up with a …

  • Tale of Two Borders

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    With having such a larger garden now, I find my attention flitting from one part of it to another. A few weeks ago, I was working on chipping the large …

  • Hoeing the Trees

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    When we moved in, we saw that the line of trees forming the rear boundary were wrapped with mature ivy. This was worrying, I’m no stranger to seeing ivy completely swamp and …

  • Borderlands

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    The autumn leaves had been on the grass for a while now as I haven’t had chance to pick them up. Luckily, last Saturday was sunny (but still freezing) so …

  • Up the Garden Ladder

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    After a bit of windy weather, the wisteria runners that had grown vertically upwards in the corner wall flopped over and made a bit of a tangled mess. This particular …

  • In the Oven

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    I like to think of my little plastic greenhouse as a cross between a factory and an oven. It can churn out plants at a great rate of knots and …

  • The New Border

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    I’ve recently turned my attention to the front garden. I usually don’t spend a great deal of time on it as we barely see it, however, there is one area …

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I'm Sunil Patel, this is me. I created the Garden at 13 Broom Acres and I open it to visitors. I also bake and write blog posts giving a "behind the scenes" look into what it's like to maintain such a garden.

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