Garden Blogs

Courson plant purchases and the latest Loire Valley gardens tour Last Friday we travelled up to the leafy outskirts of Paris for our yearly pilgrimage to the Journées des Plantes de Courson, the bi-annual plant fair now in its 58th year. Many of the nearly 300 nursery stands took part … Continue reading → more... - 2013/05/24

Success with fruit trees Yesterday morning the weather looked quite promising and I anticipated a full day outside, it was a little bit breezy but nothing to worry about (I hate, hate, hate wind) However by the time I had got the housework done the wind had whipped up to near on gale force, the skies had darkened and rain w more... - 2013/05/24

dark night of a poppy said, Princess Haiku deep inside the inky-maroon poppy all the carnal sins she made while loving him Pamela A. Babusci (5/23/13) HTTP Request Header * POST /rpc/ping HTTP/1.0 * User-Agent: YOUR AGENT HERE * Host: rpc.technorati.com * Content-Type: text/xml http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping * Content-length: 250 http:/ more... - 2013/05/23

Pond dilemma's *Update* I've had a couple of private emails after the post below asking me why I am so hard on Mr TG. I guess it's difficult to share the humour behind the words in a blog post (least I obviously can't do it) but I felt I should just let people know that I am truly grateful for everything Mr TG do more... - 2013/05/23

Theory I have a theory about compost... Seems like a lot of weed seeds are ending up in the pile... And spreading the compost simply plants weeds all over the garden... What about piling the weed pile in a section of the garden where the veggies don't grow well, and after the compost happens, level more... - 2013/05/22

Naturals Naturals ... were here when I got here... The thing about gardening with naturals.... is... you can't just weed everything out, or run around spraying round-up on anything that you don't recognize... Amsonia Carolina rock-rose (Helianthemum Carolianum) The interesting thing about Helianthemum more... - 2013/05/22