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Back to the Future – Gardens by the Bay, Singapore
I’ve seen the future …. and it’s kind of strange! There’s been lots in the UK travel press about the development of Gardens by the Bay in Singapore, so I was desperate to squeeze a visit into our 7...
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In The Garden This Week
Our coastal garden is starting to look really exciting now, with lots of lush growth being encouraged by the warm sunshine. It’s still very leafy for the time of year, with some flowers a number of...
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The Evening Crowns The Day
‘The evening crowns the day’ was one of my grandmother’s favourite sayings. As is so often the case in Cornwall where she lived, a dank, drizzly day has ended with blue skies and warm, dappled...
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Uncouth Cats and Kamikaze Kisses
On Saturday we a had a visitation from the Assistant County Organiser for the Kent National Gardens Scheme. So naturally, what could go wrong promptly went wrong. Eager to impress I was up at the...
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Jungle Warfare
At a certain point each year our seaside garden passes from a neat, orderly state into jungly bedlam. It becomes increasingly hard to move around without getting swiped in the face by a wayward lily,...
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Daily Flower Candy: Begonia ‘Glowing Embers’
Begonias are such stalwarts of the summer garden that they are often overlooked, even sniffed at, by so-called fashionable gardeners. I’m not attracted by the enormous, dinner-plate sized blooms of...
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Trengwainton Gardens, Cornwall
From a very early age my parents took me and my sister to visit gardens. I like to think the reason was to cultivate our interest in flowers and plants, but as one follower of this blog commented...
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Stars of the Solstice
The winter solstice is the longest night and shortest day of the year, this year falling on Sunday December 21st. The Earth’s axis tilts the furthest away from the sun at 23-and-a-half degrees, giving...
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All Systems Go!
Here at The Watch House we are steadily building up to our second annual National Gardens Scheme open weekend on August 1st and 2nd. Unlike last year, when the whole exercise was an unknown, we are...
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In Praise of Foliage
Gardeners the world over are obsessed with flowers. I am no exception. As well as being beautiful to look at, flowers are a sign of success, something one can measure a garden and its gardener by....
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In The Garden This Week
Our coastal garden is starting to look really exciting now, with lots of lush growth being encouraged by the warm sunshine. It’s still very leafy for the time of year, with some flowers a number of...
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A Tale of Two Gardens
Nurturing two gardens eighty eight miles apart is mainly a blessing, but sometimes a curse. The task becomes tricky if we want to take a holiday, spend more time in one place than the other, or if we...
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Plan B
I have a problem. With the garden next door out of action and no immediate prospect of gaining it back, I have grown way too many plants for the space available. First of all I ignored the foliage...
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Daily Flower Candy: Begonia ‘Million Kisses Elegance’
I consider myself a progressive gardener, but some habits are hard to kick. Growing in containers is an enforced habit as I have no open ground to speak of, and, although I admire great sweeps of the...
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Living in the Moment
The changing of the clocks makes an enormous difference to my enjoyment of the garden. Although the mornings have temporarily descended back into darkness, there is still light in the sky when I...
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10 Easy Flowering Bulbs to Plant For Summer Colour
There are few plants as rewarding and foolproof to grow as those that sprout from bulbs, corms, tubers and rhizomes. Among their number we can count favourites such as gladioli, begonias, lilies,...
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New Plants At The Watch House: August 2019
Both gardens were overflowing with plants long before August arrived. There was a point at which getting from the garden gate to the front door was such an ordeal that even The Beau started to lose...
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Jungle Warfare
At a certain point each year our seaside garden passes from a neat, orderly state into jungly bedlam. It becomes increasingly hard to move around without getting swiped in the face by a wayward lily,...
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Daily Flower Candy: Begonia ‘Glowing Embers’
Begonias are such stalwarts of the summer garden that they are often overlooked, even sniffed at, by so-called fashionable gardeners. I’m not attracted by the enormous, dinner-plate sized blooms of...
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