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20 Dec 2008This is for all of you with allotments or large veg gardens...I was reading an article in the ‘readers digest’ and it mentioned this website – seedsforfood.org, where you can send any extra seed you save from your allotments/veg patch.Overcast 13°C / 55°F
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10 Dec 2008Sown fuchsia Sown and Is it growing yet? garden
cuttings from hanging basket
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10 Dec 2008frosty still... but at least there's sunshine! 2 3Sunny 1°C / 34°F
Lots of frost this morning. Have taken cutting from a variagated ivy that had thrown up this cream leaf version with pink leaf stems like rats tails. Try and grow it on and see what happens.
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05 Dec 2008Hanging basket winter revamp Frontyard gardenGave the hanging baskets a revamp for winter as the frosts have killed off the lobelia. Took cuttings of the now very woody fuschias and removed the parent plants, replaced with small conifers and some spare aconites for spring colour.Sunny 6°C / 43°F
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02 Dec 2008flowering! Chrysanthemum and dianthus cuttings Flowering and Ripplestone gardenCloudy 7°C / 45°F
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02 Dec 2008Not very purple after all! 1 Chrysanthemum 'Purple Regal Mist' Flowering and Ripplestone gardenRainy 7°C / 45°F
This was meant to be ‘purple regal mist’ but I think they delivered the wrong plant – never mind – still very pretty if not purple!
Aha! The mystery of why this chrysanth is white instead of purple is solved! Human error, on my behalf, checked back through journal and dis...
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02 Dec 2008Cut back old summer growth. Valerian Pruning and Ripplestone gardenNew growth already forming clumps underneath old stems.Rainy 7°C / 45°F
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02 Dec 2008Tubers in storage. Dahlia 'Kelsae Carla' Dormant and Ripplestone gardenDug up and stored tubers for winter after frost.Rainy 7°C / 45°F
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02 Dec 2008Tubers in storage. Dahlia 'Aitara Cloud' Dormant and Ripplestone gardenDug up and stored tubers for winter after frost.Rainy 7°C / 45°F
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02 Dec 2008A morning of sun! 6 2 Frontyard gardenSunny 3°C / 37°F
Gorgeous sunshine (but very cold) this morning and so I grabbed my woolie hat and thickest gardening gloves and set to, trying to tidy up the front garden. Cutting the passionflower vine right back revealed the winter jasmine just about to burst into flower.
Tidied up the clumps of summer floweri...
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