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Year: 2015

Gardening with ME: a review of 2015

4 September 202029 December 2015

As 2015 draws to a close, like many garden bloggers I have been reflecting on the past year in the garden. As a garden blogger who gardens with a chronic illness, ME, it could be easy to focus upon all …

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Categories Gardening with ME, Kitchen garden, Perennial

Wordless Wednesday 23rd December 2015: first Hellebore (Helleborus x hybridus ‘Blue Lady’)

23 December 2015
Categories Hardy Perennial, Photography, Wordless Wednesday

Gardening with ME: pressed flowers & foliage – the first results

14 May 202111 December 2015

This is a follow-up of my post at the end of November, on my new hobby of pressing flowers and foliage. I checked how the pressings were going a week ago (all fine) and yesterday I completed process of adding …

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Categories #MyalgicE, #pwME, Gardening with ME, Pressed Flowers & Foliage

Gardening with ME: pressed flowers & foliage – a new gardening-related hobby?

14 May 202126 November 2015

It started with a Tweet. The above tweet in fact from Caro Shrives @UrbanVegPatch, last Saturday. Actually, it started before that even. In my last post I talked about having to face some hard facts about how much more I …

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Categories #MyalgicE, #pwME, Gardening with ME, Pressed Flowers & Foliage

Photo essay: Sheffield Botanical Gardens – late October autumn visit

30 October 2015

After visiting at the beginning of October, we returned to the Sheffield Botanical Gardens at the end of October to have a wander and see how some of the autumn colours were coming along. It was a very cloudy day, …

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Categories Garden visit, Sheffield, Sheffield Botanical Gardens, Yorkshire

Autumn colours in a young garden

22 October 2015

My garden is just under two years old and for the first time, I’m enjoying autumn colours in the garden. Last year autumn seemed to pass the garden by. I think that was because the high winds blew leaves off …

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Categories Autumn, Cornus Border, Hardy Perennial, Shady Border

Gardening with ME: facing some hard facts

3 August 20205 October 2015

Helianthus ‘Velvet Queen’ It’s never easy when something is staring you in the face that you are doing your best to ignore. It doesn’t matter where you turn, it’s there telling you it’s time to face some hard facts. The …

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Categories Gardening with ME, Hardy Perennial, MECFS, Shady Border, Spoonie Veg, Vegetables

Photo essay: Sheffield Botanical Gardens in Autumn 2015

2 October 2015

The clear blue skies and warm autumn sun called to us and it said: visit the Sheffield Botanical Gardens, have lunch and walk around and enjoy the sun and changing seasons. Well, when you put it like that…   The …

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Categories Photo Essay, Photography, Sheffield, Sheffield Botanical Gardens, Yorkshire

Wordless Wednesday 23rd September 2015: Calamagrostis x acutiflora ‘Karl Foerster’

23 September 2015
Categories Grass, Hardy Perennial, Photography, Wordless Wednesday

Heather on the moors

12 August 202025 August 2015

It’s that time of the year again and the heather is in full flower in the Peak District. What is different this year is that this was the first time we also was able to experience the fragrance of the …

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Categories Derbyshire, Other Musings, Peak District
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