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....Or what to do about box moths and their very hungry caterpillars. Damage caused by box moth caterpillars - and a dead box moth...
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Sue
- Feb 27
- 3 min
March in the Garden
I will feel like the Mad March Hare this month ..... so much to do.....so little time..... Well this has been a challenging year so far....
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Sue
- Jan 24
- 3 min
A happy afternoon among the hellebores
I have finally got back into the garden and spent yesterday afternoon clearing out a border which surrounds two large trees - a very old,...
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Sue
- Jan 1
- 4 min
January in the garden
January 1st and I have spent about an hour and a half in the garden today - doing things I usually manage to do in November. It was a...
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Sue
- Nov 8, 2023
- 3 min
Garlic - the Marmite in our potager
Garlic is the Marmite in our vegetable garden – I love it while my husband loathes it. So I grow and eat the garlic while he gives the...
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Sue
- Oct 18, 2023
- 3 min
Bamboozled
When we moved here, eight years ago, we had three very small clumps of unidentified bamboo. Idiotically I only removed one - and decided...
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Sue
- Sep 30, 2023
- 4 min
October in the garden
And still we swelter in this exceptional weather - temperatures in the low 30s at the beginning of October in SW France means that some...
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Sue
- Sep 23, 2023
- 1 min
Not to be missed
If you are a gardener in Gironde, Lot et Garonne, the Dordogne or Landes then this is for you - the first Fête des Plantes Insolites ...
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Sue
- Aug 31, 2023
- 5 min
September in the garden
It's "La Rentrée" - the start of the academic year in France and, in many ways the start of the gardening year too. I love getting back...
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Sue
- Aug 21, 2023
- 5 min
Hiding from the heat
I have been collecting seeds. The best time to do this is on a dry sunny day, which is certainly what we have today. It involved a...
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Sue
- Aug 4, 2023
- 4 min
August in a French garden
It's August - usually hot and dry and the month that is traditionally seen as the French holidays. However - there are still things that...
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Sue
- Jun 17, 2023
- 3 min
Gardener's Gold
Our local villages had an open day recently - and I went to have a look around a neighbour's saffron farm. I had not realised until...
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Sue
- Jun 1, 2023
- 5 min
June's to-do list
I love June - the start of summer and the weather is starting to feel hot but not, usually, unbearably so. Flowers are at their peak as...
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Sue
- May 1, 2023
- 3 min
May's To-Do list.
Tender edibles can go out into the garden now - tomatoes, chillies, basil, aubergines, peppers, courgettes can all be planted outside...
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Sue
- Apr 29, 2023
- 2 min
Simple Salvias........my step by step guide
The popular shrubby salvia is really easy to propagate and now is the time to do it. If your friend has a nice example of Hot Lips (the...
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Sue
- Apr 14, 2023
- 3 min
Fairy eggs and funny eggs
Our chickens have been laying some pretty odd eggs of late. We have had beautiful.large spotty eggs, small ones from our new pullet (a...
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Sue
- Mar 31, 2023
- 4 min
April in the garden
TS Elliot called April "the cruellest month" and, although the context is different (he was writing about Europe in the wake of the first...
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Sue
- Feb 23, 2023
- 6 min
Did you smell the petrichor?
It is raining heavily today - at last. The garden is grateful and, as the first rain fell, the soil gave up a distinctive smell - called...
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Sue
- Feb 7, 2023
- 6 min
February In The Garden
I always think that Pope Gregory Xlll must have enjoyed a joke when he created February. It is the shortest month, but it is one of the...
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Sue
- Jan 15, 2023
- 4 min
Is this the ultimate dry garden?
We are on holiday - island hopping in the Atlantic while our alter egos, Dick and Susie, (yes really) stay at our house in France to...
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