In the garden
CONTRARY to popular belief, things don’t slow down in the autumn. If anything, they begin to really hot up now. There’s always plenty of dull…
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In the garden
AS SUMMER turns to autumn the garden is at its most productive. Salads and vegetables are plentiful – almost too plentiful at times. We’ve started…
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THE FIRST chore I usually give to new volunteers at Lea Gardens is a spot of hand weeding. It’s somewhat nerve-racking for the individuals, especially…
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MODERN photo technology has left us in no doubt of the fact that plants are capable of moving of their own volition. They move as…
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DURING August things are meant to slow down, but this year the opposite has been the case. We managed to take the boat out once…
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WHAT a summer it’s been so far. I can’t recall so many sunshine hours and such long spells without rain since the summer of 1977,…
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ABOUT a fortnight ago, Lily the Supreme Illustrator and I motored south into the Scottish Borders, where we had the most divine lunch imaginable. Many…
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LAST Thursday, on my way to St. Ninian’s Isle with a group of friends, I came across a most extraordinary sight: two men dedicatedly propagating…
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LILY, the supreme illustrator, started her artistic career with tiny and minutely detailed silk embroideries, featuring plants, insects, amphibians and birds in exquisite detail. Her…
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WHEN it comes to waterside planting and bog gardens, damp borders even, there is usually a large gap from the moment the last spring flowers…
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A COUPLE of days before summer’s official beginning, summer rapidly turned to winter, and has, more or less, remained there since. All growth seems to…
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IF YOU are expecting propagation hints, vegetable progress reports, or a piece liberally peppered with those weird botanical epithets you love so much, I’m afraid…
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THE BASE of the lamp on my bedside table is a ceramic owl. A fitting shape for the sleeper, an owl also. I’ve always preferred…
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