As you can see the garden has had a dose of winter this weekend albeit short-lived with the majority of the snow having melted by Saturday lunchtime. I can’t say I...
Category: 2015, days out, gardening, January, Life, My garden this weekend, Perennial, Perennials, Plants, Shopping, Weather, Winter Tags: Ashwood, Bulbs, garden, gardening, Greenhouse, grief, Hellebores, plant buying, snow, winter garden
There are certain nurseries I enjoy visiting and there are certain people I enjoy buying plants with. Today the two came together and I visited Cotswold Garden Flowers with Victoria, Rob...
Category: April, Foilage, gardening, Perennials, Plants, Shopping, Shrubs Tags: Cotswold Garden Flowers, gardening, Pan Global Plants, plant buying, plant nurseries, The Old Passage Inn
During the Garden Bloggers Fling in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago we visited two nurseries. When I saw these on the itinerary I was a little down as to...
This Sunday saw the first real plant fair of the year. Admittedly I have been buying plants all year from nurseries and at the gardening groups I go to but this...
Category: April, Shopping, Spring Tags: garden, gardening, nurseries, plant shopping, Spetchley Plant Fair
I was approached recently by Plantify to review their new packaging for online purchasing of plants. I was quite intrigued by their claims since I have had very mixed experiences...
Category: Shopping Tags: buying online, plantify, Plants, suppliers of plants on line
Being a new allotment holder and also new to vegetable growing I have had to source all sorts of products to get my plot going. There has been paths, compost bins,...
Category: Allotment, Shopping Tags: beanpole week, Beanpoles, coppiced wood, directory
I have a weakness for parcels and so I have fully embraced the whole on-line shopping revolution. I am now beginning to find more and more nurseries that you can buy...
Category: Perennials, Plants, Shopping Tags: on-line shopping, plant buying, Woottens
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