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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

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

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... - 2012/05/14

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

Level Playing Field - The Somerset Levels and Moors are now inundated with rainwater. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the area, The Levels and Moors are low lying wetlands in central Somerset, situated between the Mendip and Quantock Hills. Extra massive pumps have recently been brought in and installed at Curry Moor to pump millions of gallons of water off th... - 2012/05/10