Gardening – November 2019 – Helen Robins
With the clocks going back tonight, we are plunged once more into the realm of short, darker days. Those first few times it is dark by 5.30 are not good for the...
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Gardening – October 2019 – Helen Robins
As I write here on this blustery Sunday morning, summer is most definitely in the past for this year. If we needed any more proof than the weather, the Veryan Autumn Show...
Gardening – September 2019 – Helen Robins
Well, I’m rather regretting harping on about water in last month’s column. No sooner I did, then we had apocalyptic rain for a few weeks. Sorry, peeps. However, erratic this August has...
Gardening – August 2019 – Helen Robins
This last few weeks have really focused my mind on the importance of water, and made me think harder about how I garden and plant. In practice, we had 5-6 weeks with...
Gardening – July 2019 – Helen Robins
Cornish summertime seems at last to be here, but what a strange old ride it has been. Not exactly a straight line increase in temperatures, and actually we had the heating on...
Gardening – June 2019 – Sarah Daniel and Helen Robins
What a difference a few weeks make in the garden. Those colder night-time temperatures are a thing of the past (fingers crossed) and we are all playing catch up with our gardening. Now...
Gardening – May 2019 – Sarah Daniel and Helen Robins
It is only approximately seven weeks until the longest day. There, we’ve said it. Here at Pengelly, some days we’re still wearing many layers of clothes, being battered by hailstorms and thinking...
Gardening – April 2019 – Sarah Daniel and Helen Robins
There is so much to do this month, it’s difficult to know where to start! Like us, you probably wake up in a panic, not even daring to draw up a to...
Gardening – March 2019 – Sarah Daniel and Helen Robins
Here we sit on the warmest February day for years, itching to tell you to go wild in the garden, but good sense and an element of “been there before” is telling...
Gardening – February 2019 – Sarah Daniel and Helen Robins
And still we are missing out on the colder weather down here in Cornwall and the blessed Roseland. Yep, it is supposed to be winter, but our gardens are behaving like it...