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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I’ve been gardening a long time, first on my allotment years ago, then in my home garden, as site manager of a Community-Supported Agriculture scheme, and these days as a professional gardener and in a community garden. Believe me, I’ve gone through A LOT of tools! I’ve done all the trial-and-error so you don’t have
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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 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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