Category Archives: seed sowing

Six on Saturday: Best Exotic

Posted on January 14, 2023 by Cathy

After Christmas, I commissioned The Golfer to build the framework of a bug hotel, which has duly been completed and erected. Everything has been recycled (no, I tell a lie – the slate roof was made from a roofing tile … Continue reading →

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Six on Saturday, Half of Them Pink

Posted on October 22, 2022 by Cathy

During the week I often come across something in the garden that could be featured on Six on Saturday, but then forget it by the time Saturday comes around and find myself scrabbling for contributions. Some of those featured this … Continue reading →

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Six on Saturday: Phew!

Posted on June 18, 2022 by Cathy

Phew…what a scorcher it was yesterday! Phew! What a hectic afternoon it was on Thursday! Whew! What a relief it is to have some rain today! Take your pick… On Thursday afternoon we had our only (so far) booked group … Continue reading →

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Six on Saturday: In One Fell Swoop…

Posted on February 26, 2022 by Cathy

… the character of the woodland has been destroyed… Our neighbour on the hedge side came to the door a week or so ago to say they were planning on replacing part of the hedge at the bottom end of … Continue reading →

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Wordless Wednesday: Seed Sorting

Posted on January 12, 2022 by Cathy
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Crowning Glory and Other Curiosities

Posted on July 24, 2021 by Cathy

I showed an example of fasciation on Wordless Wednesday last week, in that case in a veronicastrum; today I found another example, this time in Veronica longifolium ‘Marietta’. Fasciation occurs due to abnormal activity in the growing tip of a … Continue reading →

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Definitely an Asset

Posted on July 11, 2021 by Cathy

There are four cutting beds down beside the working greenhouse, in the sunniest part of the garden, plus two beds with dahlias and sweet peas, and I thought I would share these  first four and their contents with you today. … Continue reading →

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In a Vase on Monday: Sweet

Posted on May 24, 2021 by Cathy

I have not allowed myself to sway from the original intention of using purely sweet peas in today’s vase: after all, they deserve it, brightening the greenhouse where they are grown and filling it with a sublime fragrance. For those … Continue reading →

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Wordless Wednesday: First Cosmos

Posted on May 12, 2021 by Cathy
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In a Vase on Monday: News of the Blues

Posted on April 19, 2021 by Cathy

It would be easy to think there was more blue around in the spring garden than at other times of the year, with muscari, forget-me-not, hyacinth, pulmonaria, brunnera, Anemone blanda and the like, with bluebells and aquilegia poised to join … Continue reading →

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