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Plants for pollinators in late Winter

5 February 202119 February 2019

Having visited Hodsock Priory on the weekend (mid February), where they not only have a woodland carpeted with snowdrops, but also an ornamental garden, it reminded me of just how many plants are flowering in late winter. So I thought …

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Categories Bees, Garden visit, Pollinators, Solarpunk, winter

Trentham Gardens – sculpture

6 October 2018

Earlier in September we visited Trentham Gardens in Staffordshire. I didn’t get around to blogging about it due to lack of energy. Since then, Jessica over at Rusty Duck has also visited the gardens, and blogged! As her blog is …

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Categories Garden visit, Photo Essay, Sculpture, Staffordshire

Garden visit: Renishaw with friends

22 April 2017

We visit Renishaw Hall Gardens at least a couple of times a year, and often around bluebell time. This year coincided with Easter and friends. So this is a slightly tongue-in-cheek take on visiting Renishaw Hall Gardens with friends. If …

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Categories Accessibility, Derbyshire, Garden visit, MECFS, Spring

Garden visit: Anglesey Abbey in mid-Spring

13 April 2017

Winter garden In the past I’ve only ever visited Anglesey Abbey in winter. In my opinion, it has the best winter garden I’ve ever seen; I’ve blogged about this previously. On a trip to Cambridge last weekend to visit Kevin’s …

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Categories East Anglia, Garden visit, Photo Essay, Spring

Garden visiting with ME

14 August 202011 May 2016

An ME Awareness Week blogpost As this is primarily a gardening blog, I wanted to contribute a post to ME Awareness Week within this context. After some recent experiences visiting some large gardens in Scotland, I wanted to write about …

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Categories Garden visit, Gardening with ME, MECFS

Garden visit: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

12 August 20202 May 2016

After visiting Logan Botanic Garden in Dumfries and Galloway, it was quite a change to a week later visit the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. The weather was quite different for a start. At some times it was hard to tell …

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Categories Accessibility, Alpines, Garden visit, Other Musings, Scotland

Garden visit: Logan Botanic Gardens

12 August 202021 April 2016

I’ve long wished to visit Logan Botanic Garden, situated on the most southerly point of Scotland. Thanks to the gulf stream it has a warmer climate than one might expect this far north in the UK, and therefore plants from …

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Categories Accessibility, Garden visit, Other Musings, Photo Essay, Scotland

Garden visit: Renishaw Hall Gardens in early Spring (photo essay)

3 April 2016

There was real warmth in the sun today and it really felt like Spring. After nearly a week of bad ME days that kept me mostly bed/house bound, I was feeling a little better and really wanted to get outside. …

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Categories Derbyshire, Garden visit, Photo Essay, Spring

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

Garden visit: Helmsley Walled Garden

23 June 2015

Helmsley Walled Garden, view from the perennial meadow It’s hard not to be attracted to the romance of a walled garden and on a recent holiday to the North York Moors I visited two, this one, Helmsley Walled Garden, and …

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Categories Garden visit, Hardy Perennial, Kitchen garden, Photography, Yorkshire
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