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Sweet Peas

Flowers, Gardening, Planting, Summer flowers, plants, Sweet Peas

The heady old-fashioned scent of sweet peas conjures up summery memories for many people.They are very easy to grow and you will get a lot of pleasure from them so I would encourage anyone to have a go.

Fabulous Fennel

Edibles, Gardening, Planting architectural plant, aromatically, Bath, bronze fennel, celery, coir pots, cultivate, Dahlia Bishop of Llandaff, environmentally friendly, feathery leaves, fennel, flower border, flowers, herb garden, herbalists, herbs, kitchen garden, leaves, medicinal herb, perennial, Prior Park Garden Centre, scent, season, seeds, self seeding, spring, stems, texture, umbelliferous, Verbena bonarienesis, weeds

Fennel is an exceptionally good looking and glamorous hardy perennial, which deserves its place in both the kitchen garden or herb garden as well as the flower border. At this time of year, it really comes into its own adding a feathery soft and scented texture to the garden. Native to Southern Europe, Fennel has […]

Social Climbers

Garden Design, Gardening, Landscaping, Planting climbing rose, colours, flowering, flowers, greenfly, Kiftsgate rose, ladybirds, larvae, pruning, rambling rose, stems

There is little to beat the spectacle of a climbing or rambling rose in the summer. There are not many other plants that can flower so profusely and in such a variety of colours and shades and take up a relatively small area on the ground compared to the enormous vertical space they can fill. […]

The lazy days of summer

Days Out, Fruit and Vegetables, Garden Design, Gardening, Landscaping, Leisure time in the garden, Pests and Diseases, Planting, Summer annuals, borders, Ceonothus, Colour, deadheading, Escallonia, feeding, flowers, Foxgloves, frost, garden, gardening, geraniums, irises, July, lupins, perennials, Philadelphus, Physocarpus, pots and containers, pruning, rhizones, scent, seed, semi-ripe, watering, weeding, Weigela, wisterial, work

I love the July garden, even mine, which although a work in progress has borders beautifully full to bursting and full of colour and scent. Ideally at this time of year we should all be enjoying our gardens and the fruits of our labour. Everything is at its peak and looking great so we should […]

Snowdrop Time

Days Out, Gardening, Planting, Spring, Winter borders, Botanic, branches, Bulbs, flowers, garden, grasses, greenhouse, hazel, insects, Lacock, lawns, leaves, National Garden Scheme, snowdrops, summer, Trees

There are occasional moments in February, when the gloomy grey skies lift and a sparkling sunny blue sky is revealed and early spring sunshine brings some temporary warmth to otherwise freezing days. These are the best times to get out and go for a walk and after weeks of being safely tucked away indoors with […]