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“When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden.” — Minnie Aumonier

Most of the time these days I’m without words to grasp what’s going on. But then I remembered the language of plants. So I’m letting the plants in my garden speak for themselves.


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Intro to r/BoomersBeingFoolish subreddit.

Boomer-Bashing is IN!

As a Baby Boomer, I don’t go looking for examples of the Boomer-bashing that seems ubiquitous these days, sadly. I see it rarely on my Facebook or Threads feeds but to my dismay, can’t avoid it on the plant-related


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An apology:

I went on a proper holiday (a week!) for the first time in many years, and it’s left me short of time to write a post for you. But on that holiday we did visit one of the Royal Horticultural Gardens and I can tell you about that. Sorry for American readers that it’s in England.

I need to start by exploring just what a garden like Rosemoor means to me. I’ve...


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On the night of the 8th of January 2026 my fellow gardeners down in Cornwall went home after a long day’s work. There was a rare official red warning for a storm forecast that night, Storm Goretti, but nobody could foresee what ...


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When I moved to this yard 14 years ago I replaced the back lawn with mixed borders of shrubs and perennials, deeper-than-usual borders like this one (coz, no more lawn). But what I don’t remember seeing mention of in the ubiquitous instructions in how to replace lawns with something – anything – is the need to provide access to the plants in those deep borders.


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