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Gardening – January 2016 – Sarah Daniel and Helen Robins

So what’s your New Year resolution? No more chocolate, less alcohol, take up jogging, lose weight? How about adding a more positive one – do more gardening. It’ll take your mind off...

Gardening – December 2015 – Sarah Daniel and Helen Robins

Well, didn’t November turn out to be a very different month from October? This time a few weeks ago we were writing about balmy days, autumn colour and lack of seasonal storms....

Gardening – November 2015 – Sarah Daniel and Helen Robins

What a delightful and unexpected October we have experienced here in Cornwall! Hardly a drop of rain (at time of writing, anyway) and the most balmy daytime temperatures. The only reminders that...

Gardening – October 2015 – Sarah Daniel & Helen Robins

Well, it really is the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness now, and if you are early risers, as we are, you might be rewarded with the beautiful sight of mist floating...

Gardening – September 2015 – Nicola Bush

When the summer wind and rain arrived I feared for the agapanthus in full bloom but they are sturdy monsters. My varieties are particularly tall but have beautifully thick stems and survived...

Gardening – August 2015 – Nicola Bush

Receiving a telephone call from a friend one always says, ‘How are you?’ Sometimes there is instant regret as the tales of minor ailments persist. But I received a phone call from...

Gardening – July 2015 – Nicola Bush

I have had the most fabulous display of alliums in the garden for weeks. There are so many different varieties that it is possible to have allium bulgaricum from mid-May through to...

Gardening – June 2015 – Nicola Bush

I suspect like me you may have struggled with early spring climatic conditions, twas ever thus! Many vegetable seeds were slow to germinate, young growth was checked in April by cold night...

Gardening – May 2015 – Nicola Bush

Life in the garden is returning to normal. A few dry days and I can hear the steady of hum of lawn mowers, strimmers and hedge trimmers. The swallows have returned and...

Gardening – March 2015 – Nicola Bush

I had to laugh when I picked up last month’s article. I said something about watering in your herbaceous plants. The heavens obviously read the article and did it for you. Oh...