“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
OH. Right. OK. It’s taken me a few days to identify the sound in my orchard and the bird that flew past my head so fast that I didn’t have time to move. I see why now. We have them here. They are amazing and gorgeous and … deadly. So, I’ve warned all the small […]
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OK. This is all out WAR! The veg patch is double-fenced and the gate barred. The tunnel now has no exit. HOW do the little beggars keep getting in and eating all my newly planted plants? I have just 2 out of the original Sunflowers left that I’ve grown from seed. Grrr! I went on […]
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IRK : Irritate; annoy.”it irks her to think of the runaround she received” RUNAROUND : deceitful or evasive treatment. BTW : The rose on the left is Paul’s Himalayan Musk…up to the gutters now. The rose on the right is Rambling Rector entwined with honeysuckle and they’re both trying to get into the front door. […]
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I’m having a Very Stupid day today :o( Amongst the cheap plants that I bought the other day in the clearance sale from the garden centre down the hill were two limp Artemisia dracunculus. I had no idea what they were but felt sorry for them. Aaah. Anyhoo : I’ve just learned the other names […]
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I just got lucky. The garden centre down the hill is no longer owned and operated by the Crowder family (since 1789) It’s now part of a wholesale homogenised UK company :o( Regardless. I went this morning and spent a whole £10 on 7 plants. All but one bought from the clearance sale. The princely […]
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The Good Life. F1RST ever episode. Felicity went on to film Rosemary & Thyme….more gardening?
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Yes. I admit it. I threw a right old Paddy this morning. And kicked out at the nettles behind the old pig-sty. Bastard Nettles. And then…I suddenly smelled Chocolate Mint. Then oranges. Yummy Distraction. Way No Way. The chocolate and -AND – the orange mint that I’d planted there about 8 years ago were still […]
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For some strange reason, I’m on a Virginia Woolf vibe. I’d fill my pockets with stones and rocks and walk into our pond BUT : I’m due at a Friends & Family Barbecue next week :o)
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This is why I love gardening so much. It’s a truly spiritual exercise. We gardeners plant in the ground, the earth, the mud. And receive the total joy of watching that seed grow into full and beautiful life. So many people live in their heads. They telegraph via 5D because they are So Afraid of […]
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Well, ours did :o) We rescued a baby crow in the garden, nurtured him for a year and then let him fly away. He was named after Brooks’ crow in Shawshank! A favourite game of his, when we walked around the garden with Tsardog, was to stop and pull raspberries from our three runs and […]
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I’m Exhausted just watching this :o( Grandad George taught me about Double Digging. Thanks, darling man. I STILL HATE doing it. Achy Breaky Back Excuse ? ? ? But……. Like life, one has to dig at least 2 spits deep. If not more to get Good Growth. I’m armchair double digging right now :o)
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You’ll probably not remember this! GB : 14th of May 2020. Heirloom Seeds. Many of the seeds that I planted last year in the cast iron gutters lying abandoned at the back of the stable, chucked on bits of waste ground etc were biennial seeds. I knew what I was doing but still kept my […]
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