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Doronicums: Bane or Beauty?

Doronicums: Bane or Beauty?

| May 14, 2013 | 0 Comments

It is not, if we are honest the spring we had hoped for. Sure its here! But there is little sun, and when it is here, little real warmth. There will be snow on Exmore tonight! The borders are therefore slow to colour up. So what is in our borders now, giving us some much needed [...]

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A Bowl of Cherries

A Bowl of Cherries

| May 10, 2013 | 0 Comments

I was reading on Facebook that the New England Spring is amazing this year. So our wonderful Spring is elsewhere too. Hurrah! Here at the moment  the cherries are totally extraordinaire. And there is really no reason why any one with a garden would not have a cherry. They do not have to take up the [...]

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Love it and loathe it!

Love it and loathe it!

| April 30, 2013 | 0 Comments

Its been living hell, right? And suddenly its all amazing. The weather I mean! Gardeners and the weather are like a married couple. The Battling Burtons say. (Probably the greatest ever celebrity couple for whom the fierce nature of their relationship was both  its well source and its ultimate destruction.) Breaking up and making up. ‘And [...]

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Green Mist Rising

Green Mist Rising

| April 19, 2013 | 4 Comments

Ever driven along feeling the Red Mist about to rise? As you are cut up yet again and do your second emergency stop in 2 minutes? Well there is hope all around on the verges at the moment because the Green Mist is rising. Yes, as a long, hard winter stubbornly gives way to spring the [...]

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