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I've been away from GOY nearly all summer.....

It's been a time of injury, first knee, then back, all thanks to hefting too much...

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19 Nov, 2017
Arbuthnot

No snowdrops this year

Because of the ground disturbance and the digging up and replanting for the new shed...

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21 Feb, 2017
Arbuthnot

Re-designing

My OH is re-designing our small back garden as I want a circular lawn. He decided...

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21 Oct, 2016
Arbuthnot

Roses attacked

After a prolonged period of heavy rain yesterday I went outside for a look-see. Two...

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21 Sep, 2016
Arbuthnot

Lost roosting places

The house at the end of my short garden has new owners who moved in a month or so...

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26 Aug, 2016
Arbuthnot

Not a good year for my clems

One or two of my clems have done ok but the others are not doing well at all. Three...

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17 Jul, 2016
Arbuthnot

Unstructured border

When I read the post from Tonyl about his narrow borders and saw his photo I did...

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5 Jul, 2016
Arbuthnot

Why has everything grown so large?

On one border (east facing) so many normally lowish plants have grown quite massive....

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27 Jun, 2016
Arbuthnot

Only a short blog

I've just been looking at the honeysuckle on the back, north facing fence. It's laden...

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22 Jun, 2016
Arbuthnot

Blowsy

My garden is beginning to look blowsy as everything is growing much taller and bushier...

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14 Jun, 2016
Arbuthnot

Two years later

When we came here two years ago the garden had barely been touched. It was obviously...

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3 Jun, 2016
Arbuthnot

More about my vandalised Polychroma

Whilst cooking last evening I saw a lot of sparrow (or dunnock) activity so watched...

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26 May, 2016
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