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Firethorn and Fingernails
The weather here is still very mild and temperatures forecast are well above what we would normally be experiencing here in Scotland. I took the opportunity to get out mid week and move the Firethorn....
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End of Month View January 2014
I've been eager to take part in the End of Month View meme hosted by Helen over at The Patient Gardener's Weblog for sometime but could never quite make up my mind on a suitable subject. Now that I'm...
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Garden Bloggers Bloom Day February 2014
The post I'm about to put together really is a rushed job. Two reasons for that, the first is that I'm having a little away day tomorrow with a couple of gardening friends and since it will be dark...
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Peacock Butterfly
As testament to how unseasonal our weather has been this winter - I was startled as he/she flew past me.Peacock butterflyAglais ioI ran back indoors like a madwoman hoping not too miss a photo...
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SRGC Early Spring Bulb Show 2014 (part 1) - Snowdrop and other bulbs
It was a bit of an early start, well for me any hows! I didn't finish work until a little after 3am and I was getting picked up at 8.15 for the journey to Dunblane. Ordinarily it would have been a real...
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SRGC Early Spring Bulb Show 2014 (Part 2)
Thanks to all my readers who commented on my previous blog SRGC Early Spring Bulb Show 2014 Part 1. Ending where I left off - making my way to the trade stands. I don't know about you but I'm always...
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What's in a name?
When we buy a plant do we ever give consideration to it's name? We may well do if we want a plant to remember a loved one or to commemorate a babies birth - in fact there are lots of reasons we would...
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End of Month View February 2014
My end of month view this February, still as it was last month, is pretty much a work in progress. Although we were lucky here to have escaped the horrific weather other parts of the UK have...
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Just a few flowers
Work on the garden renovations and Project Privacy continues. I've encountered a wee bit of a problem sinking one of the posts for the last two sections of trellis. An absolutely humungous lump of...
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When not to move?
THE never ending question. Right? From what I have picked up over the short time I have been blogging is that gardeners all have their own gardening regime - What works for some will not work for...
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Garden Bloggers Bloom Day March 2014
By comparison the garden this year is of to a flying start! This time last year saw the entire garden stuck in limbo and the only plants that were blooming here last March was Hellebores, Snowdrops...
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Plant swapping - long distance
It was Helene over at Graphicality-UK that first brought Green Plant Swap website to my attention when she posted about it last year. In theory, it is a great idea. Its a gardening website where you...
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Doesn't time fly? - End of Month View March 2014
Where on earth has the past 4 weeks gone? I blinked and missed almost the whole of March. I had really hoped to be on top of renovations by the time I got round to posting this month.Wrong! It's...
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Attempting Espalier
My family and friends tend to give me gift vouchers for Christmas. The kind of vouchers I can spend in Garden Centres are my favourites. I don't have a big family therefore it didn't take long for...
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Garden Bloggers Bloom Day April 2014
I find myself in the position of being prepared for my Bloom Day post this month. Which really does make a change! Rather than rush around the garden at the last minute, as I would normally would,...
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End of Month View April 2014
My mood of late as been a bit down, I've been stuck in the doldrums - I found that I had been a wee bit scunnered with the garden. For days on end I struggled to get myself motivated to do any sort of...
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Carried on regardless - the garden that is!
Despite me loosing my gardening mojo of late - the garden carried on regardless! The early bloomers are long gone, most of the bulbs have now gone over and the vast majority of the shrubs are now...
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Garden Blogger Bloom Day May 2014
It's May and that time of year has arrived! What time? I hear you ask. The time of year when I can get myself downstairs in the morning and sit on the back step and wake up to the sound of the...
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End of Month View May 2014
Here we are at the end of May and how time flies when you are having fun! The doldrums I found myself in at this time last month seems to have shifted and I am now feeling a bit more positive. I've...
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