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Hooray, the sun shone today!

The daytime temperature actually reached double figures today, ten degrees outside...

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11 Mar, 2023
Shirley_tulip

Pots away!

We are having the block paved patio professionally cleaned in mid March, neither...

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26 Feb, 2023
Shirley_tulip

Nymans on 1st February 2023

A message came through from The National Trust inviting members to 'Discover carpets...

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2 Feb, 2023
Shirley_tulip

Arundel Farmers Market

On the third Saturday of the month, Arundel, in West Sussex, runs a Farmers Market....

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22 Jan, 2023
Shirley_tulip

January 18th ... promising signs in the garden.

The minus five temperature overnight meant our planned trip to a favourite garden...

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18 Jan, 2023
Shirley_tulip

Three cheers for Dave (Shedman)

I'm sure many of us appreciate the behind the scenes work that Dave does for us,...

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21 Dec, 2022
Shirley_tulip

Helping the garden birds

I posted a blog on this subject in February 2019 but thought some newer members,...

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9 Dec, 2022
Shirley_tulip

RHS survey results

The RHS Extreme Heat Survey in July after the record breaking heatwave show that...

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22 Oct, 2022
Shirley_tulip

Acer 'Orange Dream' colour changes

The first photo was taken on 28 June The second photo taken today. This was a supermarket...

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19 Oct, 2022
Shirley_tulip

Roses blooming in mid October

Mild weather seems to suit the Roses at the moment ... long may it last! This Peach...

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19 Oct, 2022
Shirley_tulip

Early October garden blog

This is as much for my reference as anything else! I looked back at my garden blog...

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8 Oct, 2022
Shirley_tulip

Birthday gift voucher purchases

Yesterday we visited our favourite Garden Centre, a birthday garden gift voucher...

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23 Sep, 2022
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