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I write this to the roar of a tractor, as they're cutting hay in the meadow. Also the roars at Trent Bridge. Yay!*
What do I love most about gardening? Propagating plants, that’s what. As Beverley Nichols wrote in Down the Garden Path:
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Answer: a lot better than it did, thanks to non-stop rain yesterday. Unfortunately it was also cold and very windy so plants got bashed up rather. Today is quite different, rather humid. A month ago I posted about the plants waiting to go out. Since then, growth has been amazing. Half-hardy and tender plants certainly know how to make the best of ( Read more... )

Plants waiting in the greenhouse before going outside. The pictures all look better if you click on them.


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This damp, windy weather is no good for the plants in pots which live outside. Petals get spotted, leaves rot and have to be removed. This Pelargonium 'White Unique' (bought at Cranborne) is safely in the greenhouse, so remains in pristine condition.


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The grass is cut, shrubs and perennials are bursting into flower but it's much too windy to take photographs of them. So windy, in fact, that some plants blew off their shelf in the greenhouse. So I shut the door and snapped this, which is in there hardening off.


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