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Gardening – April 2023 – Alison Agnew

Alison Agnew is the new contributor of the Roseland Online Gardening Feature. She is a retired Biology lecturer and amateur but long time gardener and designer. She has a particular interest in...

Gardening – March 2023 – Alison Agnew

Alison Agnew is the new contributor of the Roseland Online Gardening Feature. She is a retired Biology lecturer and amateur but long time gardener and designer. She has a particular interest in...

Gardening – February 2023 – Carolyne Neill

This month’s gardening feature has been written by Carolyne Neill. Caro offers advice in this article to ‘terrified gardeners or newbies’. Having lived in Roseland since 2010 I have certainly used trial...

Gardening – December 2022 – Caroline Kenzie

“Chill December brings the sleet, Blazing fire, Christmas treat” Sara Coleridge This is the last verse of the poem ‘The Months’, and this year it may be rather true. We have a...

Gardening – November 2022 – Caroline Kenzie

“It is enough To smell, to crumble the dark earth While the robin sings over again, Sad songs of autumn mirth ” Edward Thomas “Digging” October has been remarkably mild although we...

Gardening – September 2022 – Caroline Kenzie

“The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft, And gathering swallows twitter in the skies” John Keats, “To Autumn” To me, the sound of a robin’s song is definitely different come September. Whether it...

Gardening – August 2022 – Caroline Kenzie

“August brings the sheaves of corn, Then the harvest home is bourne” Sara Coleridge (1802-52) If anyone was not sure that our weather systems are in flux and environmental conditions are changing,...

Gardening – July 2022 – Caroline Kenzie

Summer is in full glory in July, there is never a moment to sit still! Vegetable patches are heaving with the weight of ripening produce, as are fruit bushes, strawberry plants, tomatoes...

Gardening – June 2022 – Caroline Kenzie

June – the month of the longest day. The highest number of sunshine hours available per day, the plants revel in the warmth and (inevitably!) the rain. Summer plants are putting on...

Gardening – May 2022 – Caroline Kenzie

I think May has to be the prettiest month. Whereas October can produce glorious colours, there is nothing like the blanket of spring flowers that appear in May. The hedges and verges...