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A snowdrop wood in Normanton

February 17, 2019

galanthus fore pleno galanthus nivalis snowdrops

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The joy of peperomia

February 13, 2019

houseplants macramé Peperomia clusifolia Peperomia polybotrya Pilea peperomioides

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A visit to Ashwood Nurseries to enjoy the hellebores

February 10, 2019

Ashwood Nurseries hellebores. peperomia sarcoccoca ruscifolia

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Tree Following February 2019 - cold

February 07, 2019

quest for a quince Quince tree following

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The not snowy garden

February 03, 2019

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End of Month Review - January 2019

January 31, 2019

Edgeworthia chrysantha End of month review End of month view Hamamelis snowdrops

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Wordless Wednesday - overwintering ladybird

January 30, 2019

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Irritating plant of the month - the Tree Peony

January 27, 2019

#IPotM IPotM Irritating Plant of the Month Tree Peony

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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…

So goodbye lavender edge......

Let me rewind to 2007 when the front garden looked like this:
I declared this front garden boring and decided a knot garden was what it needed. I sometimes wonder if I should have left well alone. Yes it was dull, but the front garden seems to have been a constant battle I have never really won. I could just have mown it once a fortnight, yet that was just not what I wanted to do.
The garden was laid out as tiny box cuttings in the spring of 2008; by 2013 it looked like this. Yes even then the lavender hedge was a bit sprawly but it had a lot to redeem itself with. In the summer it was always alive with bees and butterflies and it was a joy to brush past as the scent would be released. I did love the lavender edge.
But then the lavender edge got old and sprawly. I kept it pruned but it was long past its best. So the other day I was weeding under the (out of shot) Magnolia tree and I started to weed along under the lavender edging. This was going quite well, there has been no …

End of the Month Review - February 2018

February has been cold, really cold. As I write this the winds are blowing in from Siberia as we are have falls of snow in bitterly cold blasts. The up-side of this is that the days have got sunnier and there are few things as wonderful as a cold bright winter day (except a sunny warm summer day... and a sunny spring day.... and a sunny autumn day - I think I like sunny days).
In the driveway the Mahonia is flowering well too, I am very pleased that it has settled in well now.
The Cornus officinalis is also flowering, well, making a welcome sight as I leave the house in the mornings in the increasing lighter hours.
In the front garden the Quince Hedge is covered in flowers, I am yet to see a bee though this year. The cold weather is not encouraging them out just yet.
The lavender edging just looks awful. I need to dig it out. As I am thinking this I am being watched by the latest addition to the family, the rather lovely Trev.
The Hellebores are flowering well around the edges of…

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