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Spiny surprises
There are lots of lovely eryngiums for gardeners: this is my favourite. Positively dangerously spiny, this marvellous assemblage of bleached-out looking bracts make a serious garden statement. Biennial, self-sowing if you don’t get around to it, it offered me a … Continue reading
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Tagged drugged bees, Eryngium, Gertrude Jekyll, pollen beetles, thistles
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Water butt stories.
I’m on my third water butt, but these are serial, not parallel, relationships. I had my first, as a kid, collecting water from my beloved first greenhouse. My second, many, many years later, collected water from our beloved summerhouse, swathed … Continue reading
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Tagged cling film, Gertrude Jekyll, mosquito larvae, Rose 'The Garland', water butts
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