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Alison Levey: I have been writing about my garden on ‘The BlackberryGarden’ blog since 2011. I am an amateur and somewhat obsessed gardener and I am based in Leicester. I write about my own garden and what inspires me to garden: gardens I have visited, plant fairs and garden shows. I also review garden related books and products. The Blackberry Garden is not a ‘how to’ blog, the aim is to talk more about the enjoyment of gardening and it is read by people who garden and people who do not, all readers and followers are very welcome.

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End of Month Review November 2025

and then December started knocking on the door. Winter is coming, it feels like it has already arrived though the weather has oscillated between mild and sunny to cold frosty and rainy. November has been an all weather month. All weather apart from snow so far I suppose. The garden is cold and wet and thinking about Spring. I look at the colours of the emerging cyclamen leaves and love the glitter of their silvery finery. Every year more and more pop up in the garden. From a few pots planted over a few years there are now so so many. It is a joy. I can wait for Spring but seeing these now gives me real hopes for it. A couple of limp, soggy looking snowdrops keep appearing. They don't look hugely happy which is a bit of surprise as snowdrops expect to be cold and a bit soggy. Maybe they are awake just a little too early and not prepared for Winter yet. I am not sure I am prepared for Winter either. The lawns also hav...

Tree Following December 2025 - Oops

I have a confession to make. I did a bad thing. This is a beautiful, almost perfect quince. One of the four quinces that made it through to the ripening. Isn't she lovely? Isn't she beautiful.... But I did a bad thing; actually if I am being precise, I did not do a thing which is sort of different but the impact is the same. I did not pick them in time to use them all. This is casualty number 1. Casualty number 2. and yes you've guessed it.... Casualty number 3. On the plus side the birds and other wildlife have been enjoying them. Did I pick the last one standing to try and recover situation? (whispers) not yet - I don't really deserve any quinces do I? I shall do better next year, I have to. Take care and be kind. For more from the Blackberry Garden follow me on Bluesky Twitter X Facebook Instagram and Substack

Plant of the month - Clematis cirrhosa

I was wandering around the garden the other day and stopped to admire the Clematis cirrhosa that scrambles over the broken trunk of the sadly dead apple tree. This is a great plant and one I would not be without (the clematis, not the dead apple tree), and it made me think about how some plants in my garden have their moment to shine. I decided I would celebrate this by starting a new series of posts: the Plant of the Month. As the clematis had prompted this thought, it had to be the one to start this off. This plant starts to flower as many others are hiding from the Winter cold. It sparkles in the cold Winter sun and shrugs off snow and ice. It is tough as old boots and a good doer. I cannot praise it enough. It is an evergreen clematis and gets to around 3 to 4 metres tall. It will grow up fences and trellises and also as I have it in my garden, scrambling up an old tree trunk. It is quite vigorous and yet does not swamp. It is quite po...

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