There are many many wonderful blogs and articles and books about what to do by season and I reccomend you read one on a regular basis until you get into the swing of your own plots vagaries. In my gardening life I find I try to do too much on a regular basis, organised chaos…
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TODOS – January
This is a very odd season. November was the mildest on record and December looks set to be the mildest and the wettest. Barely a chill in the air let alone a frost or snow. I am in the South East of England in case you’re shouting that it’s snowing where you are! Two weeks…
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TODOS July
If you missed RHS Chelsea this year there’s a few more shows to visit. RHS Hampton Court Palace starts next week and will undoubtedly have some thought provoking dhow gardens and luscious plant suppliers to whet horticultural appetites. Early in the piece there will also be superb rose gardens to visit. David Austin, Gardens of…
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TODOS March
I hope your February was as busy as mine? pruning Wisteria, completing winter prunes on the Apple and Pear family, including quinces there. Chopping back herbaceous perennials that withstood the winter weather. Asters, hardy Fuschia, ornamental grasses, taking a weeping Caryopteris back to the bone, Ceratostigma to the ground, tidying the Helleborus orientalis leaves, I…
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Assailed by a never ending list of things todo I keep a master list for garden tasks in the kitchen, mostly scribbled on my latest Gardener’s World calendar but some months it stretches to include post it notes stuck one on top of another. With the arrival of each new magazine ( I get 4…
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