An email this morning telling me that our long-established Horticultural Society will close in June. This is sad but inevitable. The writing was already on the wall as the membership aged and people were less willing to take on jobs. Covid finished it off ( Read more... )

Yesterday evening, I listened to ‘Moira Stuart talks to …’ Monty Don. I thought it would be pleasantly relaxing and it was. Desert Island Discs it ain’t; much longer pieces of music are played. Near the beginning of the show came one of my very favourite things: Dido’s Lament (When I am Laid in Earth) from Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas. Annoyingly, they ( Read more... )

I went food shopping this morning and got soaked in a sudden cloudburst. Needless to say, there hasn’t been a drop of rain since I got home. The weather may be grim but there are signs of life in the garden,


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Apologies to all sun lovers but, after weeks with almost no rain, it’s raining at last! I wonder if my hydrangeas will plump up again? At least I’ll be able to do some weeding and planting and today, no exhausting watering. Hurrah!

Glad to see that LJ is back.

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This morning, I have been gardening. Nothing to write home about, you may say, but it’s been raining almost non-stop since before Christmas and today we have sun. As usual, I went out to do one small job and ended up tackling a big one. Without changing into gardening clothes, natch, so getting unnecessarily grubby. My plan was the annual cutting ( Read more... )

Dovegreyreader, born again gardener, has had the friendly idea of organising a seed swap through her blog, rather than through one of the impersonal sites available. Since not everyone is used to collecting seeds, I’m offering a few hints here. What follows may seem like the bleedin’ obvious, but nothing is obvious when you’re new to it ( Read more... )

This part of the garden was looking pretty yesterday morning, so I took a not very good picture of it. I need a wide angle lense. And better picture hosting on LJ.


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A very hectic week, due mainly to tedious domestic problems and having MEN around the place and no peace. So I was really glad to have today to myself ( Read more... )