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29/09/2021

Love these Asters or Symphotrichum as they're known as now...😏🌱

Gardening is the root of happiness, and cultivates well-being for the mind and soul.

02/09/2021

Visited a lovely Japanese garden in Toulouse, France last week Jardin Japonais created by Pierre Baudis - a French politician who loved gardens (who doesn't😌) ..so calm & tranquil. He left a beautiful legacy for the people of Toulouse and died in 1997.

The beautifully landscaped Zen gardens with the red bridge - which is such an important colour in Japanese culture. It signifies wisdom and everything sacred and rejecting material things.

Green water - whilst lovely for reflections is also there to represent wisdom & energy and the green colour shows the passage of time.

The tea pavillion is also an important element as the tea ceremony was bound up in their ancient history and valued for its healing properties..️🈵️🇯🇵🎍... nothing like sitting down with a lovely cuppa ☕🫖

If you like to sit back and relax and have your Zen time - it's easy to copy some elements from these wonderful Japanese gardens.
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09/07/2020

So how have all your lockdown veggies been growing? I don't usually grow veg as love my plants and flowers too much. However, Ive now got the bug. Having built a raised bed I planted it up with different lettuce varieties and rows of Calendula (flowers of course... but dual purpose as keeping away the greenfly andn looking pretty). Next to my raised bed I had large bell pots with bamboo canes and runner beans. These have reached way to far skyward and I eventually pinched out the tops.

I also put breakfast radish, Beetroot 'bolthardy', rainbow Chard and carrots in pots and 6 varieties of tomatoes - also in large pots. I have Tomato black cherry, baby sungold, Shirley, Gardeners Delight and a stripy tiger one whose name escapes me...Anyway, here are a few photos I wanted to share which I took a few days back.

I will find the photos I took and post them soon..

09/07/2020

Believe it or not it's Summer..although looking outside at the rain and clouds no one would think so. I'm hoping wherever you are you have a sunny evening...

Anyway time to dream of Summer borders and creating some lovely plant combinations...

Maybe some fabulous Cannas, Crocrosmia, Hemerocalis, Phlox paniculata, Penstomens, Phygelius, Echinops and Eucomis 'Sparkling bordeaux' and Monarda..or bee balm as it is known to attract the bees...

10/05/2020

Interesting article about Xylella fastidiosa.. please be careful to be certain plants have correct passports/ UK grown lavender etc.

Bacterial disease has already wiped out ancient Italian olive groves, with economic impact forecast to be ‘billions of euros’

14/02/2019

Is this the perfect gift for the gardener in your life...

This Sneeboer Heart Shaped Trowel is hand forged in the Netherlands. Highest quality garden tools available. Ships worldwide!

31/01/2019

A few photos from the BBC DIYSOS big build for Simon Dobbin. Showing the front garden.

21/01/2019

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20/01/2019

Help for Simon Dobbin

02/01/2019

Lovely walk at NT Ickworth and hotel gardens

14/11/2018

Extreme pruning today of a Trachleospermum jasminoides (Star Jasmine) that had wrapped itself around the guttering at a client's house...easily remedied though with some mechanical help and loppers/ secateurs...

14/11/2018

Fabulous mauve berries on this Callicarpa bodiniera 'Profusion' at a clients today. Useful shrub for Nov-Dec