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Author Archives: Homesown@thedevelopingplot
Six on Saturday
One of the many positives of gathering together a Six on Saturday is the way it helps pin down the weather and its patterns. When growing up I couldn’t completely understand the fixation my Welsh farming mother had on this. … Continue reading
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Tagged Hawera, Hidcote Manor, Narcissus Thalia, Primulas, Six on Saturday
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Six on Saturday
So wet surely the ground cannot soak up any more water, but still it rains. Not sure I should contribute this Saturday in my current mood of sulky gloominess, but here goes with a more than slightly soggy Six. But … Continue reading
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Tagged anemone bland, chillies, cosmos dazzler, rain, Six on Saturday, slim jim aubergine, Tomatoes
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Six on Saturday
A milder and definitely more Spring like feel to this week’ s Six after another white out last Saturday. Not a promising start to my Farmers Market year, travelling there through snow and ice. Today there is rain so the … Continue reading
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Plotting a Wedding
Recently I was offered my first chance to grow wedding flowers and with some (realistic) trepidation have accepted. So now the planning begins. What a responsibility, but how exciting to have a definite focus to work towards. Just what I … Continue reading
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Tagged cornflowers, nigella, roses, scabious, Sweetpeas, wedding flowers
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Six on Saturday
This is a whirlwind Six before setting off on a trip. Mild and damp outside, it couldn’t be more different from last Saturday’s white out. The elastic resilience of plants has amazed me. Last week bent down with heavy snow, … Continue reading
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Tagged #SixonSaturday, achillea cerise queen, primula Dawn Ansell, quince, Spring, Sweetpeas
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Six on Saturday
Lets be honest if it was difficult last week to find a different Six, this week it is teetering on the impossible. The real blanket on the ground, close schools and make the road outside your house impassable snow only … Continue reading
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Tagged narcissus, pelargonium Stadt Bern, Six on Saturday, small white van, tete a tete
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Six on Saturday
Difficult to feel that there is an abundance of choice for this week’s Six on Saturday with the ground frozen, plants stopped in their tracks and newly emerging seeds looking regretful. Here in this garden a new bout of Winter … Continue reading
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Tagged Havel peas, penstemon Alice Hindley, Six on Saturday, Tarragon, vinca, winter honeysuckle
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Six on Saturday
Ok, I’ll admit it straightaway – this is probably a bit of a cheat, but in my defence this week I have either been ill, or working and today I am off on a trip. So here is something that … Continue reading
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Tagged Carol Klein, Green and Gorgeous, Katherine Swift, Morville Hours, Sarah Raven, Worton Organic gardens
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Examining the Plot
Just like the allotment, I have found it too easy to forget the plot. It seems I have been in almost total gardening hibernation since November, apart from the odd hour here and there pottering in the greenhouse and digging … Continue reading
Six on Saturday
So now it is February and there have been some piercingly bright days slicing the grey and the gloom. The light is lasting for longer and although the nights have gone back to cold and some mornings to frosty, seed … Continue reading
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Tagged clematis, cornflowers, Derry Watkins, Jamaican primrose, pelargoniums, salvia nachtvlinder, Six on Saturday
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