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Sue
Dec 15 min read
December in a French Garden
I am writing this on November 30th and it is cold and foggy outside - we are entering the season of "dreich" (a Scottish word pronounced...
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Sue
Nov 222 min read
A cactus for Christmas - or before
Our "Christmas cacti" are in full bloom. They are always early and, despite the name, are never in bloom on the day itself. In the USA...
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Sue
Nov 111 min read
The story of the bleuet
Today is November 11th so it is a good time to mention the cornflower, or Bleuet (Centaurea cyanus). The bleuet is the French emblem of...
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Sue
Nov 32 min read
The Joy of Ceps
It's the end of an amazing weekend in the garden and things are definitely turning autumnal. I spent some of the time cutting back spent...
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Sue
Oct 314 min read
November in a French garden
After an unforgivable delay here is an update on what to do each month in the garden.... November is when you start to put much of the...
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Sue
May 304 min read
Box Clever
....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 273 min read
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 243 min read
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 14 min read
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, 20233 min read
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, 20233 min read
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, 20234 min read
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, 20231 min read
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, 20235 min read
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, 20235 min read
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, 20234 min read
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, 20233 min read
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, 20235 min read
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, 20233 min read
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, 20232 min read
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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