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My Garden This Weekend – 18th January 2015

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

Two nurseries and a fish lunch

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

The San Francisco approach to selling plants

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...

Category: Discussion, gardening, July, Shopping, Uncategorized Tags: Annies Annuals, Flora Grubb, Garden Bloggers Spring Fling, garden centres, plant buying, plant centres, plant nurseries, San Francisco

Spetchley Plant Fair

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

Are things looking up for online plant buying?

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

Beanpoles – at last!

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

Woottens – a fabulous nursery

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

The Patient Gardener

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies - Gertrude Jekyll