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Spring!

It has been such a longer winter but today really feels like spring. For the first time in months I did some pottering in the garden this morning. The friendly garden Robin was sitting in the oak tree, waiting for me to dig up some grubs or something. I forgot to get a photo before it moved off but the flowers mainly stayed still. Wallflowers are coming to life all along the ...


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February has arrived at last and with a lovely day. In the garden the snowdrops are popping up everywhere,bringing us joy.

Crocuses are beginning to appear and the hammamelis is still in full flower

The daffodils are appearing though not flowering yet. Their time will come. I wanted to take some flowers to my mother yesterday and popped into a sho...


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.. keeps the birds away. That would be because it is #BigGardenBirdWatch weekend. The weekend in the year when all the birds that usually visit your garden, go off somewhere else. The apple, though, had nothing to do with the birds and everything to do with t...


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I’ve not done much – well in fact not done anything- in the garden and allotment since New Year. It’s been too cold and dark and I’ve been back at work. But I have spent quite a lot of time looking at the garden, watching the birds mostly. I don’t usually feed them because I don’t want to encourage rats and squirrels. For more on not squirrels specifically see


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And so we come to the end of another year, a quarter of a century into the 2000s. The millennium seems like only yesterday but there we go. Now it’s time to celebrate all that has gone well and what has struggled in the garden and allotment this year. There were two major events which have dominated my gardening this year: the


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