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		<title>New pics</title>
		<link>http://helenyemm.com/2011/08/10/eldenhurst-latest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 10:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just added some new photos to my Flickr account &#8211; have a look: Eldenhurst &#8211; latest, a set on Flickr. Filed under: Eldenhurst<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=helenyemm.com&amp;blog=2140073&amp;post=455&amp;subd=helenyemm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">New path only just visible between the flowers - high summer 2010</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">A celebration of green and white... Smyrnium and Miscanthus</media:title>
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		<title>What price &#8216;freebies&#8217;?</title>
		<link>http://helenyemm.com/2011/06/24/what-price-freebies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And now for something a bit precarious, professionally speaking &#8211;  a little bit out on a limb: A reader of my Telegraph page wrote to me about my lawnmower, a Bosch  lithium-ion cordless model that  I have been using for about four years and about which I cannot speak too highly. Referring to it recently on my page, I mentioned [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=helenyemm.com&amp;blog=2140073&amp;post=438&amp;subd=helenyemm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Cash changing hands</media:title>
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		<title>Blogging for the BBC..!</title>
		<link>http://helenyemm.com/2011/06/21/blogging-for-the-bbc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first, and I hope not my last post for the BBC gardening blog is up and running &#8211; about posy pickers. Here&#8217;s the link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/gardening/2011/06/lets-hear-it-for-the-posy-pick.shtml Commenter Stephanie Donaldson is obviously a dedicated PP like me, and on her blog, &#8216;The Enduring Gardener&#8216;, there are some pictures to inspire, of extremely tasteful garden posies she has put together &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=helenyemm.com&amp;blog=2140073&amp;post=441&amp;subd=helenyemm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gardening in my slippers &#8211; a cautionary tale</title>
		<link>http://helenyemm.com/2011/06/17/gardening-in-my-slippers-a-cautionary-tale/</link>
		<comments>http://helenyemm.com/2011/06/17/gardening-in-my-slippers-a-cautionary-tale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two days ago, early in the morning I was carefully walking along the edge of the pond (precious primulas in full sail to my left, water to my right) in order to haul out some of the mass of oxygenating weed that was threatening to engulf the pump. I had just wandered outside, having completed the ‘weekly tips&#8217; section of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=helenyemm.com&amp;blog=2140073&amp;post=426&amp;subd=helenyemm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More seats, please</title>
		<link>http://helenyemm.com/2011/06/04/more-seats-please/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 15:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am always surprised to find myself in small gardens with no chairs or seats apart from the obligatory dining ones by the house.  You walk up them&#8230; and you walk back.  And that&#8217;s it.  Absolutely nowhere for quiet contemplation. Admittedly, my garden has an overabundance of seats, many of them elderly rustic chestnut things, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=helenyemm.com&amp;blog=2140073&amp;post=404&amp;subd=helenyemm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My garden is open for four hours&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://helenyemm.com/2011/05/29/my-garden-is-open-for-four-hours/</link>
		<comments>http://helenyemm.com/2011/05/29/my-garden-is-open-for-four-hours/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 09:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;between 2 pm and 6 pm on Sunday June 5, as part of the Wadhurst Open Gardens 2011 weekend.  Other lovely gardens of all shapes and sizes are open as well, of course, during both the Saturday and Sunday afternoons.  Tickets cost £5 from Carillon Cottage (the parish office near the post office bang in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=helenyemm.com&amp;blog=2140073&amp;post=397&amp;subd=helenyemm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Did you know there was an old lady in a hairnet drowning in your pond?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://helenyemm.com/2011/05/22/did-you-know-there-was-an-old-lady-in-a-hairnet-drowining-in-your-pond/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 10:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;was just one of various bemused comments from visitors about the orange mesh bag &#8211; actually full of barley straw &#8211; currently breezing around on the surface of my pond as part of my battle against blanket weed and green water. Wiggly Wigglers (www.wigglywigglers.co.uk) sell bags of straw in trios (they are on special offer as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=helenyemm.com&amp;blog=2140073&amp;post=385&amp;subd=helenyemm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blush Telegraph</title>
		<link>http://helenyemm.com/2011/04/27/blush-telegraph/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been having a bit of fun with my Telegraph page (a gardening agony column) recently.  Totally fed up with readers sending me endless pictures of crisply dying bay trees (sometimes without even any accompanying question), expecting clairvoyancy on the subject of their teetering-on-the-brink hydrangeas and whingeing about myriad buds dropping off camellias and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=helenyemm.com&amp;blog=2140073&amp;post=354&amp;subd=helenyemm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thorny Problems &#8211; progress report and events</title>
		<link>http://helenyemm.com/2011/03/10/thorny-problems-progress-report-and-events/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[RHS grow your own flowers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My book, Thorny Problems, has been out barely a week and I am pleased to say it is doing really rather well&#8230; After hefty promotion in The Telegraph on Saturday, Amazon sold out (but that has been sorted out by now I dare say), and when I last looked it was at no. 2 on their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=helenyemm.com&amp;blog=2140073&amp;post=341&amp;subd=helenyemm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Grow your own leaves</title>
		<link>http://helenyemm.com/2011/01/29/growing-your-own-leaves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 18:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eldenhurst]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, this is not &#8211; to my knowledge &#8211; a reference to yet another RHS tome in the successful series, but refers to my passion for foliage. When I was writing Grow Your Own Flowers, shrubs and trees and perennials grown for the sheer beauty of their leaves were, as the title of the book kind of suggests, elbowed aside [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=helenyemm.com&amp;blog=2140073&amp;post=321&amp;subd=helenyemm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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