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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...

Gardening – January 2019 – Sarah Daniel and Helen Robins

Well, we can’t believe it’s 2019. How on earth did that happen? Last time we looked, we were getting ready for the Saturday disco, dancing to power ballads, wearing our hair BIG...

Gardening – December 2018 – Sarah Daniel and Helen Robins

Winter colour, that’s our theme for this month. When we think about colour in the garden, we often think about flowers, but in the winter, these are harder to come by. And...

Gardening – November 2018 – Sarah Daniel and Helen Robins

So here we are again, at that cusp between seasons where we don’t know quite what to expect from day to day. After a deliciously clement October (Callum excepted), we are suddenly...

Gardening – October 2018- Sarah Daniel and Helen Robins

As we write here on this chilly but bright evening, summer is most definitely in the past for this year. The days are beautiful this week (the wind and rain last weekend...

Gardening – September 2018 – Sarah Daniel and Helen Robins

There are many, and we are inclined to agree with them, that September is the start of the gardening year. Summer holidays are largely over, the heat of summer, and boy, have...