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Box Hedging Border - Mrs TK has been on to me for a while about the unsightly fencing around one of our vegetable plots. I tend to use what I can scavenge from around our property and some cord, this sometimes keeps Bramble from running across the beds and slightly deters the chickens. However, as you can see it is not very sightly. We had taken a few cuttings from so... - 2012/05/16

The world’s worst landscape customer, Lily Beetles and the writings of Henry Mitchell. - I’ve built a lot of gardens over the years, as a garden designer and owner of a two landscape companies. I don’t have the figures to hand but basic mental arithmetic puts the total built at around 500, while we … Continue reading → - 2012/05/15

Gardening in May 2012 - Not much gardening done and the long May weekend is approaching us...put outdoors yesterday, Agapanthus and Dipladenia plants....this evening, I dug out some Greek Oregano, a big chunk was growing midst the iris plants...also dug up a sage plant....the rhubarb was crowding it. Blooms in garden: Periwinckle, violas, forget-me-nots....some iris buds ... - 2012/05/14

The Sunshine Award - This week I was very surprised to be awarded The Sunshine Award from Jacqui of  The French Village Diaries   Jacqui and her husband Adrian have lived in a small village in France since 2004 and are avid gardeners, growing much of their own food. They also have ducks, chickens, a rabbit and even a goose, so are really living 'the goo... - 2012/05/14

Daylilies - It hasn't rained much... A quarter inch 3 or 4 weeks ago, a half inch this week... it's been enough for these seedlings to bloom. I collected daylily seeds (a number of years ago), from a friends daylilies, seeds seem to have a better chance of doing well out here... - 2012/05/12

Mourning - I'm in mourning . I spent hours calling the cat, while making coffee in the morning, while reading a book, and when I found her on the road where someone ran her down, I just wished I'd tried harder to find her. The other day, I listened to a sumbitch brag on his murdering pit-bull, bragging on the cats it was killing... I didn't bother to point o... - 2012/05/11