Posts on Spring gardening
Snowdrops in the green – what does it mean?
Snowdrops are flowering now and now is also the time to plant new ones. Here I show you what planting them in the green means and those I planted have come up very well this year.
Spring in our town cottage garden
February 2017 in the cottage garden things were further on than they are today – daffodils were already out
A new year in my cottage garden
One thing I love about a garden is that you can leave it alone. It won’t sit there doing nothing till you return to it, reproachful, arms crossed, waiting. It just gets on with what it was going to do anyway – growing . OK so everything will carry on growing – things you don’t
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