Gardening

Feed the Birds Day

31 October 2011

Ok so this is a little embarrassing, the nice people at Nature’s Feast sent us a lovely bird feeder and some high energy bird food so we could take part in ‘Feed the Birds Day’ on Saturday. Now we always take part in the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch and due to all the trees in [...]

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Garden Cuttings

19 September 2011

A massive thanks to my parents who came to help us tame our garden this weekend. Hedges were trimmed back, trees prunes and all the roses and lavenders cut back. Miss L rummaged through the cuttings and rescued these for the flower jug, so pretty and they smell amazing!. I love that she’s still so [...]

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June

3 June 2010

Hello everyone! I hope you’re all well? It feels like ages since I’ve blogged properly and I can’t believe we are in June again – where is the year going? So on my break I got pretty much nothing other than work done. But I did finish off some great blogs for SingleMummy.net and Chic [...]

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Container Gardening

7 April 2010

Following on from last year’s ‘Small Gardening‘ I’m doing the container gardening thing again this year. Last year I had the potatoes in completely the wrong place for watering them and they died a very quick death – doh! But the strawberries did well in the hanging baskets at the front of the house, so [...]

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Garden, what garden??

2 August 2009

Yesterday we realised we couldn’t actually get out to our garden. The apple tree and briar’s had taken over during our holiday and now the only person who could get up there was Betty! Before 4 hours, a lot of blood and swearing from the thorns in the briars later Look I can get up [...]

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I have a problem..

24 June 2009

So last year for the end of term teachers presents I made these They were utterly gorgeous and very well recieved, I guess there are only so many mugs and boxes of chocolates you can get? Now last weekend we were looking hopeful for a repeat, my roses were doing pretty well from a distance [...]

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Hooked on…Peonies

19 June 2009

It’s Hooked on Friday over at Julia’s so this week, mine is my peonies. I’ve just picked the last of them, but they were glorious while they lasted. I think I’ll miss the best of my roses as I’ll be on holiday, so I’m going to pick them for all the school staff at Lily’s [...]

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Mini Gardening Update

14 June 2009

The strawberry hanging baskets have worked really, really well and we’ve had some beauties from it. The potato bags….well something’s happened, the plants have collapsed onto the floor under their own weight. I think it might be because I didn’t top up the soil. Now of course I can’t get them up, but I suppose [...]

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Spring is here

2 March 2009

Spring is here! We spent the weekend at my parents building a summer house which is their 40th Wedding Anniversary present to each other. It’s going to look fabulous when it’s finished and I’m very envious! My Mum, has bless her entrusted to me the sewing of the cushions…I’d better learn to thread that new [...]

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There’s still time to plant…

30 January 2009

Photo Credit: Besimos Photostream on Flickr TULIPS! Admittedly not a lot of time to plant them, but I think you’ve still got a good 2-3 weeks to either get them in the ground or in pots. Photo Credit: Besimos Photostream on Flickr They are well worth the effort as they are cheap and make fabulous [...]

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