Category Archives: End of Month View

End of Month View: Green With a Touch of Colour

Posted on May 31, 2018 by

In this period between spring and summer one could easily be swallowed up by the green leafiness of the garden; green is such a soothing colour and the abundance of greenery must surely provide an environment not only for healing … Continue reading →

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End of Month View: April, Not really the Cruellest Month

Posted on May 1, 2018 by

TS Eliot described April as ‘….. the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.’ Many roots have certainly been stirred here with a fairly average month of rainfall … Continue reading →

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End of Month View: Happy Times!

Posted on March 31, 2018 by

There are many things in the garden that are bringing happiness at the end of March, a greenhouse full of seedlings being one of them. I don’t think my list of sowings (under the Sowings Record tab above) is quite … Continue reading →

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End of Month View: Nobbut a Sprinkling…

Posted on February 28, 2018 by

Centrally placed in England as we are, weather systems heading towards us from different directions often peter out before they get here. It may be bitterly cold (minus 6°C at the moment, supposedly feeling like minus 14°) and we may … Continue reading →

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End of Month View: a Hint of Spring

Posted on February 1, 2018 by

Helen, the Patient Gardener, has picked up the reins of the End of Month View again after a short break during which Steve of Glebe House Garden took charge; thanks to both of them for providing a platform for us … Continue reading →

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End of Year View: the Main Borders

Posted on December 31, 2017 by

For most of the years I have been blogging, when December 31st comes along I have posted a month-by-month view of one part of the garden instead of an EOMV of the whole garden, although I have still taken my … Continue reading →

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End of Month View: a Quick Ramble Round the November Garden

Posted on November 30, 2017 by

November has come and almost gone without so much as a ‘by your leave’, but generally it has been a month of progress in the garden with a considerable amount of tidying up done and decisions made on all sorts … Continue reading →

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