ENVIRONMENT

NOVEMBER IN MY GARDEN: Everything I’m Growing, Harvesting and Enjoying Right Now

What a strange November it is. The garden should be starting to look positively wintry by now. Yet we’re still waiting for the first proper frosts, autumn flowers are still blooming away, summer flowers are coming back for another go, and a few plants seem to think it’s spring again. The berberis darwinii is flowering […]

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D.I.Y. CHRISTMAS STAR GARLANDS: How To Make Eco-Friendly Christmas Decorations

I love Christmas, season of peace, love and joy; a festival of light in the darkest part of the year. But I don’t love all the excess and waste that it can cause if we’re not mindful. And that’s why, instead of replacing my old gold plastic foil garlands with more of the same, last

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OCTOBER IN MY GARDEN: Everything I’m Sowing, Growing and Harvesting Right Now

Aren’t we blessed with the weather this autumn? So far we’ve seen endless sunny days, with good brief or overnight showers. Weed growth is rampant! But the October garden is changing colour rapidly now, leaves are falling, flowers are closing, and the shortening days mean that growth must come to an end soon. The autumn

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SEPTEMBER IN MY GARDEN: Everything I’m Sowing, Growing and Harvesting Right Now

September always feels like a strange transitional time – not quite still summer and not quite autumn. We think of it as a time of change, but when we look closer we see that things have already been changing under our noses for a while now. Of course things are always changing! The September garden

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