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  • Garden aspirations

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    Hello again. It’s that time of year when all sorts of things that have been lying dormant in the garden suddenly start to reappear. Of course, the main things that reappear in my garden are the bindweed, ground elder, creeping buttercup and green alkanet, but hay-ho, some things are sent to try us. On the…

  • Alnwick Garden, Northumberland.

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    I’d wanted to visit the Alnwick Garden for quite a long time – I’d seen a TV programme about it, and work had already started there when we made our previous visit to Alnwick in 2003, although the children were too small and we were too tired to look around back then. So this summer,…

  • A Visit To Canon’s Ashby & A Picnic.

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    Canon’s Ashby House in very rural Northamptonshire, is one of those half forgotten manor houses that pepper England, and when you find them, you feel as if you’ve been let into a precious secret. I probably shouldn’t even write about Canon’s Ashby in case it gets big headed and loses it’s charm; but I will,…

  • It’s raining!

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    Well here it is at last – the rain. How incredibly welcome it is, as we had reached the point of having to water not only the pot plants, but also the plants which were planted in the ground last year. Sadly I think I’ve already lost a few, I was just too late getting…