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I started this blog in 2008 to record how my garden developed, it quickly became a gardening journal and I have loved it every since. I am passionate about horticultre despite working in higher education administration. However now, 2013, I want to re-engage with my early hobbies of sewing, knitting and crochet so this blog will start to have a wider range of entries that aren't all garden related.
I love reading your comments and I do hope you enjoy the blog.
Helen
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- Guardian 11th May 2011 – Bluebell Woods
- Guardian 17th June 2011 – Friday Debate
- Guardian 21st July 2011 – Tatton Park
- Guardian 23rd May 2011 – Behind the Scenes at Chelsea
- Late Summer Border, Hardy Plant Society December 2012
- Notcutts – The Hardest Working Greenhouse
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The arrangement of petals and leaves on plants never ceases to amaze me – they are invariably perfectly designed
Hi Cathy
I love succulents, they are beautiful and this one has lovely orange flowers later in the year
That’s what I love about them too. Such beautiful natural symmetry!
Helen, I brought mine into the greenhouse which is heated for the first time this year. I removed some of the little side shoots and I am thrilled to say they have rooted. It’s a beautiful plant and I temporarily brought it indoors to grace my dining room table. Great photograph.
Hi Nel, I was told the other day that they were hardy in the UK and had withstood the very low temperatures (-18C) we had a few years ago. However, mine are still in a frost free greenhouse as I dont know if I want to risk them especially when we have low temperatures forecast this coming week
Such lovely geometry.
I had a ‘hardy strain’ outside for quite a few years but 2010 winter did for it. I keep my ‘regular’ ones overwinter in a unheated greenhouse. Normally they come through unscathed but I have started to keep the odd one in a frost free front porch and yes they do propagate very easily
Fantastic geometry -love them.