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Spring flowers Part 2

As we have seen so many spring flowers coming out, at long last, I thought I would...

♪♪♪ Half an allotment is better than ... ♪♪♪

♪♪♪ Half an allotment is better than ... ♪♪♪ to the tune of ♪♪♪ Half a sixpence...

Spring flowers

Or should I call them "End of winter" flowers? Or what about "Pre-Spring" flowers? We...

Cuenca, Spain, Christmas 2009

I promised another blog on Cuenca, Spain-this time without the snow (or the sunshine!). We...

Winter in Spain

What do you think of when you see my comments & blogs on my years in Spain? Oh,...

Winter on a balcony

As I would hate to lose all the Fuchsia plants I bought last year to go in my hanging...

Yews, Oaks, Cedars & Horsechestnuts

After reading Hywel's blog on a Yew tree I decided I would go out & take some...

The Queen's earrings ...

... or Pendientes de la Reina as they call them in Spain! What am I talking about???...

Council gardeners

Today the council gardeners arrived & begun tearing up the plants. They began...

"We got bloomin' gold!"

Anglia in Bloom I read in our local newspaper today that Huntingdon had won the Gold...

Establishing healthy shrubs with less water

Establishing healthy shrubs not the water-consuming task many think, research shows Good...

Death of a pet

Unfortunately the last of the dogs we brought over with us from Spain 8 years ago...