May must be one of my favourite months in the garden. I’m sad before it’s even over knowing I have to wait another year to see the garden adopt its fresh green foliage. As I discussed in last months post, we finally finished the dry stone wall and in May we launched in to digging the paths and central
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In reflection of the things we’ve done in the garden this year, I’ve gotten so much pleasure from the hanging baskets we planted back in April. Every time we leave the house (especially in the mornings before the commute) I look at them and they’ve changed and grown so much over the months. I particularly enjoy the red tinge the
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On August 25th Luke and I got married! Unfortunately the sweet peas ‘Jilly‘ which I planted as seeds back in January were a little past it. However, all was not lost as we had a glut of sunflowers ‘Micro Sun‘ and also from another multi-headed variety that I annoyingly can’t remember the name of. We picked the wedding flowers ourselves from a
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We’ve had an unseasonably hot few months in the garden – July 2018 has been one of the hottest since records began (second only to 2006); this means that the garden is lovely to walk around late in the evening…but far too hot for midday toiling! As such we haven’t really ‘done’ that much in the garden this month although
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