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Six on Saturday – 9/5/2020

May 9, 2020August 25, 2020Categories six on saturday35 Comments on Six on Saturday – 9/5/2020

It started with the Thursday night clap. Most of our neighbours were in on that from about week two. Then one of my sisters set up a get together on Facebook messenger and that has become a Friday morning ritual. Then one of our neighbours suggested we have a bit of a socially distanced street…

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Six on Saturday – 25/4/2020

April 25, 2020August 25, 2020Categories six on saturday36 Comments on Six on Saturday – 25/4/2020

Somehow gardening has become a full time job and I can't imagine how I ever had time for anything else. I seem to spend about 75% of my time at home in the garden, 25% on my allotment. Two or three times a week Sue will be up for a walk and we'll amble around…

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Six on Saturday – 11/1/2020

January 11, 2020August 27, 2020Categories six on saturday23 Comments on Six on Saturday – 11/1/2020

There seems to be fair bit of stuff that is perhaps a bit too far on, at risk of getting frosted, vulnerable to slugs. Then there are last year's leftovers, things like Salvia and Plectranthus, that got singed by frost but are still hanging on. Difficult to know what to try and protect, what to…

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Six on Saturday – 30/6/2018

June 30, 2018August 27, 2020Categories six on saturday18 Comments on Six on Saturday – 30/6/2018

We chucked a few plants in the car this morning and did a car boot sale. £60 for a couple of hours seemed Ok. Might do that again. We've trying growing fewer plants and that didn't work. Great as it is to have lots of overseas contributors to this meme, it does have a down-side.…

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Six on Saturday – 20/5/2017

May 20, 2017September 30, 2020Categories six on saturdayLeave a Comment on Six on Saturday – 20/5/2017

One. I was going to start with a picture of dead cabbages, the rootfly having munched their way through two rows. But it was raining and going up the allotment in the rain to take a picture of dead cabbages didn't do it for me. Two. Papaver bracteata. Every year this monster astonishes me anew.…

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Shopping trip-2

May 28, 2016September 30, 2020Categories Garden plants1 Comment on Shopping trip-2

A week ago, I went to Barracott Plants on a plant hunting expedition, coming home with enough goodies to write a blog about, which I duly did. Trouble was , a couple of things I'd been wanting I was unable to find and the nursery owner was away so I was advised to come back.…

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Shopping trip

May 19, 2016September 30, 2020Categories Garden plants3 Comments on Shopping trip

You know how it goes; you go to a garden, Rosemoor in this instance and see a plant you simply must have, Polygonatum x hybridum 'Betburg' on this outing. You get home and look at the RHS website to see who is listing it; excellent, a nursery quite close by, Barracott Plants, at Gunnislake. Thought…

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