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Spring is just around the corner ........
I have just discovered a white Cyclamen Coum doing its thing under a shrub-and further...
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4 Feb, 2021 Shirleypoppy
Looking back to Lockdown#1 from Lockdown#2
I have a passion for, nay, obsession with succulents-there, I have admitted it, a...
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16 Nov, 2020 Shirleypoppy
Garden ramblings ..... Autumn 2020
Whilst putting my garden ‘to bed’ the other day, a few random things occurred to...
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21 Oct, 2020 Shirleypoppy
Pam Ayres on Gardening
I switched on BBC Radio 7 purely by chance while in the kitchen this morning, and...
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27 Nov, 2009 Shirleypoppy
The Isles of Scilly and Tresco Abbey Garden (Part 1)
Now I suppose it is the time to 'fess up about my age-I've just applied for my bus...
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17 Sep, 2009 Shirleypoppy
Opium poppies (beware what you wish for!)
Last summer Jacque asked me for seed of the poppy I used for my avatar, and do you...
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10 Aug, 2009 Shirleypoppy
Hampton Court in the rain....
Anyone else out there who thought the first day of Hampton Court Palace Flower Show...
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9 Jul, 2009 Shirleypoppy
Chelsea 2009 - a bit late!
I took my daughter to the Chelsea Flower Show on Tuesday afternoon as a treat, as...
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27 May, 2009 Shirleypoppy
Winter surprises
Yesterday was cold and foggy, not a day to rally the spirits, but this morning I...
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9 Jan, 2009 Shirleypoppy
It's nearly here.....
Presents all wrapped, tree and house decorated, mince pies made (more baking tomorrow,...
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23 Dec, 2008 Shirleypoppy
Birds and other things (no flowers!)
Something Marguerite wrote the other day about Australian native wildlife set me...
27 Oct, 2008 Shirleypoppy
What's still good in the garden at the end of the season
I've just been out to check up on what's happening-got my feet wet AGAIN-when will...
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21 Oct, 2008 Shirleypoppy