Gardening Jobs for August – sow as you grow

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Gardening Jobs for August – sow as you grow August jobs are mostly about watering, dead-heading, weeding, pruning and mowing. Lets get busy… Pruning & Tidying Dead-head, dead-head, dead-head to keep those blooms blooming.  My recommended secateurs Cut back...

Jobs to do in the Garden in September

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Jobs to do in the Garden in September Gardening jobs in September are a mixture of reaping the rewards and planning for winter and spring.  I have always felt a little gloomy upon the arrival of September.  It signals the end of summer and long sunny days.  This is a...

Planting cornflower seeds – a guide

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Planting cornflower seeds – a guide This is your guide to planting cornflowers.  Cornflowers are tough, hardy annuals which are colourful beauties in a bedding display.  Their colours range from pale pinks, through to mid and dark purples.  My favourite...

How we created a social space in the garden

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How we created a social space in the garden The aim of this “little” project was to create a space to socialise outside.  The Deck has been the location for parties, kids play, games nights, girls nights, zoom quizzes (during lockdowns) and somewhere to...

Quick & easy garden games for the whole family

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Quick & easy garden games for the whole family So we made it through another school year!  What a year 2020-2021 has been, what with Covid, lockdowns, home-schooling and isolations.  I believe school children have been heroes, navigating their way through an...

10 shade loving plants to brighten up your garden

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10 shade loving plants to brighten up your garden Along the front of my front garden, this rhododendron hedge (above) provides welcome privacy and also an opportunity to underplant a shady area.  Although the front garden is south facing, the canopy of the...

Gardening & Wellbeing – 5 Ways

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Gardening & Wellbeing – 5 Ways Personally, I believe that the benefits of gardening for mental and physical wellbeing are born from its stimulation of all five senses. No surprises then that an initiative created by the New Economics Foundation called: “The...

Wimbledon Cake

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Wimbledon Cake The strawberry plant has kept on giving and I was determined to use the homegrown strawberies this year.  So what better time than July to make a Wimbledon Cake – recipe by Mary Berry.  To oder “Mary Berry’s Complete Cookbook”...

Flowering in June

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Flowering in June Astrantias The Astrantias are like stellar explosions, perfect for highlighting the shady area under my rhododendron hedge (zone 1 on my garden map: “Up Front” – click “Map of the Garden” below). I chose Astrantia Roma...

Planting out Pumpkin Plants

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Planting out Pumpkin Plants Sowing Pumpkin Seeds Getting my kids outside can be a challenge, now that they are venturing into their tweens and teens.  However back in April, the incentive of Halloween pumpkin carving spurred my son on to plant some pumpkin seeds. ...