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Happy ramblings: Rosa ‘Seagull’

10 September 202029 June 2020

When we were leaving our previous house and garden, I took 10 cuttings of my rambling rose, Rosa Seagull. Roses aren’t exactly known for being easy growing plants, and I’d never taken rose cuttings before and wasn’t that hopeful that …

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Categories back garden, Ornamental garden

Autumn: Prunus mume ‘Beni-chidori’

10 September 202021 October 2019

The second in my Autumn series, is Prunus mume ‘Beni-chidori’. This is a small (up to 2.5m) upright tree which I’ve planted in a pot. Whilst it’s only about 3 years old now, the idea is that, along with the …

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Categories Autumn, back garden, Bees, Pollinators, Trees

Autumn: Acer palmatum ‘Sango-kaku’

10 September 202018 October 2019

As Autumn is now in full swing, I thought I’d do a short series on some of the plants that I think really shine at this time of the year. First up, Acer palmatum ‘Sango-kaku’, and it most certainly shines! …

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Categories Autumn, back garden, Trees

Wisteria border: before and after

10 September 202012 July 2019

A year ago, this is what the Wisteria border looked like. What is a Wisteria border you ask… Well, this is now. It’s always good to take before and after photos. You often get caught up in what work you …

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Categories back garden, Wisteria border

Creating a mini forest garden border

10 September 20201 March 2019

For some years I’ve been enamoured of the idea to create a forest garden, an edible and fairly low maintenance way to grow food. It’s only with this garden that I realised that I had the right conditions to finally …

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Categories back garden, Forest Garden, Gardening with ME, MECFS, Perennial Edibles, Perennial Vegetables, Permaculture, Urban Gardens

Back garden – the first six months

4 September 202031 December 2018

Back in June I introduced the interim design for the back garden, but I haven’t yet got around to showing you how it looked during the rest of the year. Now it’s the end of the year, it seems like …

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Categories back garden, Keyhole Garden, Permaculture

An interim design for the new back garden

4 September 202021 June 2018

Work has completed on the back garden and I thought I should introduce the design and how it all looks now. The design for the back garden is not yet fully formed, but like with the front garden, I’d really like …

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Categories #MyalgicE, back garden, Gardening with ME, MECFS

The new garden

4 September 202030 April 2018

At the end of March, Kevin & I finally moved into our new, and hopefully long-term, home and garden. Yay! So this is a bit of an introduction to the new garden. It isn’t much now, but it has potential. …

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Categories #pwME, back garden, Chronic illness, front garden, Gardening with ME, MECFS, Permaculture

Crop rotations for the vegetable beds

14 August 20202 February 2014

It’s February, it’s sunny, at the moment anyway, and I finally feel like the growing season has begun. So I thought it was time to work out what vegetables I plan on growing, and plan the vegetable bed rotations. Garden …

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Categories back garden, crop rotation, Vegetable beds

End of month view: January 2014

31 January 2014

Now that the landscaping of my back garden is complete and a new year has dawned, I have decided to join Helen, @patientgardener in writing a End of Month View (EMOV) post each month. The aim is to see how this newly designed …

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Categories back garden, End of month view
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