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Greenhouse | Women Who Run With Delphiniums
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Women Who Run With Delphiniums. Because gardening is too important to be taken seriously. A greenhouse is an incomparable little mini-world, a sanctuary in the worst of weather. But mostly it is a place to easily grow whatever you like from seeds, a place to foster cuttings, and a place to take your beer and hide from the politically impossible relatives who come to dinner…. The north side of my greenhouse today (May). This picture, I just discovered, is on the Riga sales site, a business called Exaco.
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Licencetokillslugs: August 2012
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Battles against nature in a small town garden. Monday, 27 August 2012. Coffee outlawed as slug deterrent. Brussels politicians must wake up to this kind of thing every morning. Dr Andrew Halstead, principle plant scientist at the RHS has warned that gardeners using coffee grounds as slug repellent could risk heavy fines - although the chances of prosecution, he suspects, are remote. Wednesday, 15 August 2012. Plants bought: 0 (wrong time of year I guess). Gardening magazines purchased: 1. Apparently a wa...
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Licencetokillslugs: Hellebore orientalis 'red hybrid'
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Battles against nature in a small town garden. Tuesday, 5 March 2013. Hellebore orientalis 'red hybrid'. I've been after a pink hellebore for a while. It's been a furtive kind of lust, pretending to Le Photographe that I'm not going to buy anything else until I've finished the garden design course. It was thus that my ongoing love-hate relationship with the 'boutique' N1 Garden Centre. What perturbed me was this flower on one of the plants:. Helleborus orientalis 'red hybrid' in white. I hate shops that ...
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Macro, Lovely Macro | An Accidental Botanist
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Stumbling around in the green world. Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker. Blue Berries, Not →. Macro, Lovely Macro. July 4, 2011. Here’s a camera that went to Africa and recorded fine details in the environment that the retinas of early humans had to distinguish. A friend and retina expert most generously lent it to me while he and his wife are in the US. It’s an honor to use this camera. It’s a Nikon D70. Starting at the time of last year’s bloom, I have been trying to get a decent shot of this species of. These l...
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Licencetokillslugs: September 2012
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Battles against nature in a small town garden. Sunday, 9 September 2012. The seedy truth about this blog. Le Photographe and I were sitting in a restaurant last night when he said to me, "You know one thing I like about you? Eventually therefore some seedlings did grow into mature plants. This is not that surprising by the laws of mathematics as I probably planted thousands of seeds. Here's a confessional of some of these hardy plants that survived my gardening. Cosmos bipiniatus 'Purity'. Allegedly.
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Licencetokillslugs: June 2012
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Battles against nature in a small town garden. Friday, 29 June 2012. Visits to garden centre: 1 (unscheduled). Plants purchased: 0. (Resolve of steel). Hours spent gardening: 1. Slugs and snails killed: 10. Garden magazines purchased: Gardener's World (ex subscriber). I woke up this morning to find that this slug was coasting right across my terrace in the open. I think this plant will be slug resistant. According to Gardener's World, slugs like beer but not lager. As you need curry to go with la...Garde...
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Licencetokillslugs: November 2012
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Battles against nature in a small town garden. Tuesday, 27 November 2012. Time to plant some bulbs. Hours spent gardening: 6. Bulbs planted: another 264. Sycamore leaves collected: 6243. Worms accidentally guillotined: 200 or so. I've been anguished over bulbs after having seen the tulips by Bloms Bulbs. The final mix is a combination of Bloms. JP Parkers, Spaldings. Chelsea Flower Show, 2012. Sunday, 18 November 2012. Europe's shortest herbaceous border. Hours spent gardening: 6. Reader, I did not.
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Licencetokillslugs: October 2012
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Battles against nature in a small town garden. Saturday, 13 October 2012. Hours spent gardening: 0. Hours the Spanish were seen to be gardening: 0. Number of plants in full bloom: 1000000. Number of plants observed to be dead, dying or failing to thrive despite being completely ignored: 0. Spanish gardening magazines purchased: 0 (language skills limited to ordering wine in all three colours at the bar). Village street in the Ronda mountains. A traditional matador in the famous bullring of Ronda.
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Wrote This, Wrote That: Whip Those Lashes into Shape!
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Whip Those Lashes into Shape! I've played with so many. High end to low. But for maximum drama, I keep returning to the stuff in a cake - perhaps the only thing from the trendy-again 70s that I can still wear without looking ridiculous. My purple suede hot pants come immediately to mind. It used to be easy to find, and so cheap! Maybelline had it in a little sliding drawer of a red case. A buck, maybe? Was I cleaning the grout? Longcils Boncza has been around for few decades. The Vermont Country. And it'...
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Wrote This, Wrote That: Experience the Ultimate Southern Exposure at The Jefferson Hotel
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Experience the Ultimate Southern Exposure at The Jefferson Hotel. For the Washington Post's FW. There are reasons why some hotels rate five stars from Forbes. Like pulling up to a grand port cochere in a twenty-year-old pick-up, duct-tape patched and loaded with old house parts, and being greeted like her ladyship back from the hunt. (Which she was, Richmond has fantastic salvage yards). There are divine grits in the casual TJ's, and southern accented fare in the more formal Lemaire. Morning coffee can b...
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