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Garden

As you probably know, I live in the land of the delayed spring. So when I started getting questions from a couple people asking...

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Garden

Thank you to Longfield Gardens for partnering with me on this post. I’m starting to think that old gardeners can learn new tricks. I’m...

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Container gardening

Gardens in winter have so much to offer. Designers often wax lyrical about the delights of ‘structure’, by which they mean woody plants,...

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Garden

A quick note: This post is done in partnership with Longfield Gardens, where I’ve been getting my fall-planted bulbs from for probably a decade...

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Begonias

Our garden is at its lowest ebb from early February until the Ides of March, on the 15th of the month. Battered by gales...

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Bulbs

It’s a little known fact – so little known that one might almost call it a secret – that the first job I ever...

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Bulbs

It has been the strangest month; cold – indeed the frostiest April in sixty years – and desert-dry. Although we’ve escaped spring frosts here...

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Bulbs

In a normal year, I’d consider myself lucky to have one or two daffodils blooming in May. By May Day their dominion is over...

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