Are you a bit of a ruthless control-freak in the garden or do you just twiddle about? If you ask any gardening acquaintances they will readily jump (or tiptoe hesitantly) into one or other camp. I have just been rescuing a Twiddler friend’s climbing roses from years of indecisive mismanagement. You know the picture: horrid gnarledContinue reading “Control freaks and twiddlers”
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What’s going on in Torquay? – tips on planting in the shade
My apologies to holiday Googlers everywhere. This is not about the south coast of England’s famous watering hole, but about a small bit of my garden, somewhat dismissivly described by a non-gardening friend as ‘looking like Torquay‘ when it first started to evolve. If you look at the pictures you will probably see why. I absolutelyContinue reading “What’s going on in Torquay? – tips on planting in the shade”
Solomon’s Seal sawfly
Confined to my desk by wet weather, I realise that the planting around my pond is the most important in my whole garden because I sit and look at it all the time I am ‘working’. Every leaf matters. Currently the Polygonatum (Solomon’s Seal) is powering upwards with almost visible speed in its allotted spaceContinue reading “Solomon’s Seal sawfly”
Helen Yemm 
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