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Euphorbia polychroma

A month ago I bought this plant because it was such a bright splash of colour and...

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25 May, 2016
Arbuthnot

Re-use rubber gloves

I go through a few pairs of rubber gloves in a year so I was delighted to find a...

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27 Apr, 2016
Arbuthnot

Pluses and minuses

These Snakes Head Fritillaries are beautiful. I brought them with me and they're...

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15 Apr, 2016
Arbuthnot

Free Cosmos seeds

I received some Cosmos seeds with last month's issue of Gardener's World. Planted...

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6 Apr, 2016
Arbuthnot

A Walk Part 2

Now I can add some photos of my walk on Sunday. Only one is reasonable but the other...

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4 Apr, 2016
Arbuthnot

A walk

Yesterday I needed to be outside in the sunshine. Our tiny garden didn't need anything...

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4 Apr, 2016
Arbuthnot

Impatient me

My garden seems static at the moment. Yes, there are things blooming such as the...

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22 Mar, 2016
Arbuthnot

Wet, wet, wet.

We had so much rain here during Tuesday night and Wednesday morning that flooding...

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11 Mar, 2016
Arbuthnot

Weeping cherry

When we moved here one of my first comments was "...that tree will have to go." The...

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28 Feb, 2016
Arbuthnot

Still no solution to the huge ash tree

You may or may not recall my complaints about the very large ash tree which is growing...

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26 Feb, 2016
Arbuthnot

So mild

It's very mild here and the ground didn't seem that wet anymore so, in an energetic...

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23 Jan, 2016
Arbuthnot

Winter in the garden

Because it's been so mild over the last few months there are plants in flower that...

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19 Jan, 2016
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