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Book Review: Island Gardens, havens of beauty around the British Isles by Jackie Bennett

October 15, 2018

Book Review British island gardens

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The Mulberry

October 14, 2018

mulberry tree White Mulberry

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The last plant fair of the season

October 11, 2018

Asahi aspidistra elatior drimiopsis Felley Priory impatiens Lennon's Song Plant Fair

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Book Review: The Plant Listener by Julie Kilpatrick

October 09, 2018

Julie Kilpatrick The Plant Listener

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Tree Following October 2018 - the penultimate count

October 07, 2018

quest for a quince quincelets Quincelings tree following

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A morning at Great Fosters

October 04, 2018

earthforms Great Fosters Kim Wilkie perennial

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Product feature: Marigolds from Garden Seeds Market

October 03, 2018

annual flowers Garden Seeds Market Marigolds seeds

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End of Month Review - September 2018

September 30, 2018

edgeworthia red dragon End of month review End of month view Pin Oak Prunus Kojo-no-mai rhododendron luteum

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Alison Levey: Amateur, certainly not an expert, but obsessional gardener based in Leicester. I love writing about my garden, garden visits and garden related subjects. Member of the Garden Media Guild. Recently I have rediscovered my love of dressmaking, so now my non-gardening days are spent with my sewing machine.

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Product Review: Stihl RMA 339c Lawn Mower

Regular readers will know that I have reviewed a few products for Stihl from their domestic battery range. It was therefore a delight to be asked if I would review their new RMA 339c rechargeable lawnmower. I have not paid for this product but as ever my words and opinions are my own.
This is a handsome lawnmower. Stihl have until fairly recently made and sold lawnmowers under the trade name 'Viking', now they started branding them in the Stihl orange and white that we know and love.

This mower has a cutting width of 37cm. This is a good width for my lawns, not too small to mean it takes me a long time, but nippy enough that I can mow around things where I need to. It is quiet compared to non-rechargeable mowers and weighs in at 16 kg, which is quite light.

The first thing that made me like this mower was when I went to collect it.
It fitted in the boot. Admittedly the grass collection box has to sit on the passenger seat, but I had been worrying about how I would get it…

The Blackberry Garden Plant of the Year Award 2017

It is that time of the year when I announce the winner of this year's Plant of the Year Award. This award is given to the plant that has performed best and/or pleased me most this year in the garden. It is competed for quite seriously by most of the garden and it is always difficult to decide who has won. Last year I started to make notes as the year went on and I have had to do so again this year.

Many plants could be chosen, there can only be one winner but as it is my award and my rules I can have as many (or as few) runners up as I decide. So, this year's runners up are:

The snowdrop 'Madeline'
This was bought from Thenford earlier this year and is the most expensive snowdrop I have ever bought. So expensive that I shared the cost of the pot with a friend and we divided the contents between up. For proper galanthrophiles the cost would be peanuts, but for someone like myself who is a pleb when it comes to snowdrops, this was a big deal.
You can imagine my hap…

A gardening ponder

... a new year's conundrum

We are in the first week of 2018 and tradition dictates that I should be setting myself new year's resolutions that I will fully intend to carry out and yet (more often than not) fail to do so. I cannot remember when I last bowed to that dictat and set any resolutions as I tend to take the view if there is something I need to be doing I should get on with it and not wait for some specific date. Anyhoo, that said, the winter months are great for planning ahead for the garden. January in particular I always find overly grey and it can be hard to get into the garden, so pondering what the year may hold for the garden is a useful exercise.

Pondering - not resolving -this is absolutely completely and totally different to setting resolutions.....

As mentioned previously I have now been in this garden for ten years. I love (nearly) every inch of this garden and it is a very important part of my life. Even if the weather means I cannot usefully do much i…

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