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...
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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...
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...