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Reviewing my permaculture designed garden

4 September 20207 March 2017

Mid-Summer 2016 In 2013 I made a permaculture design for my garden, which was implemented at the end of the year. Now that I’m leaving this garden, I thought it would be useful to review the design. Did the design …

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Categories Bog garden, Gardening with ME, Kitchen garden, MECFS, Permaculture

End of month view: May 2015

31 May 2015

The Long Shady Border, from the shadier end May has been much cooler month than normal, it’s been quite windy but there hasn’t been much rain. The Long Shady Border laughed off the vagaries of the weather and went ahead …

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Categories Bog garden, End of month view, Hardy Perennial, Shady Border

End of month view: April 2015

1 May 2015

This is going to be a short on text End of Month View. My health isn’t good at the moment and I cannot be on the computer for too long, so I’m mainly posting photographs of the Long Shady Border …

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Categories Bog garden, End of month view, Shady Border

End of Month View: March 2015

14 August 20201 April 2015

  Welcome to the March End of Month View. The view above is from the shadier end of the Long Shady Border. There are a few gaps, such as where I’m waiting for the perennial Epimediums to come up and …

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Categories Bog garden, Damson Border, End of month view, Perennial, Shady Border

End of month view: February 2015

2 March 2015

The Long Shady Border from the back After the Long Shady Border was covered in snow at the end of January, this is the first viewing of how it is looking at the end of winter, and my thoughts on …

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Categories Bog garden, End of month view, Photography, Shady Border

Gardening with ME: gardening in your head

4 September 202013 February 2015

Sometimes I garden in my head. There are times when I simply have no energy to garden. I don’t mean no energy for a few days. I mean no energy for weeks. Throughout January and into February I was unable …

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Categories Bog garden, Gardening with ME

End of month view: January 2015

1 February 2015

Welcome to the first End of Month View for 2015. I’ve decided that this year, rather than discussing the whole garden each month as I did in 2014, I’m going to focus solely on the Long Shady Border. I feel …

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Categories Bog garden, End of month view, Shady Border

Plants for boggy shade

4 September 202021 January 2015

Series 2 of Great British Garden Revival has had many enjoyable episodes, and for me, the most inspiring was the one on last night (21st January) with Joe Swift encouraging us to include a Bog Garden in our gardens. By …

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Categories Bog garden, Hardy Perennial, Shady Border

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