Salsify and Scorzonera
Here’s a little test of your knowledge, to start this blog post: ‘salsify’ and ‘scorzonera’ are: (a) a new designer fashion label; (b)...
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Maureen Little
Nov 95 min read
Christmas Gifts for Gardeners
Please note: None of the recommendations is sponsored – I am mentioning them because I like them! The beginning of November and the...
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Maureen Little
Oct 266 min read
They Dined on Mince and Slices of Quince
I remember reading Edward Lear’s poem The Owl and the Pussycat  many years ago, with the strange bedfellows walking on the edge of the...
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Maureen Little
Oct 124 min read
To Cut Back or not to Cut Back ....
To cut back or not to cut back, that is the question. Now, I’m not talking about reducing spending on your favourite plants - perish the...
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Maureen Little
Sep 285 min read
Michaelmas
Tomorrow is Michaelmas, the 29th September, which is the feast of Saint Michael the Archangel. Now he is a pretty powerful entity: he is...
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Maureen Little
Sep 146 min read
A Bit of Forward-planning
Gardeners have to be whizz at forward planning and this is certainly the case if we want a riot of colour next spring. So now is the time...
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Maureen Little
Aug 313 min read
What’s the most useful tool a gardener can have?
Gloves? Secateurs? Wheelbarrow? All definitely have their merits. For me, though, the most useful tool I have is a working knowledge of...
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Maureen Little
Aug 173 min read
A taste of the Mediterranean
Globe artichokes ( Cynara scolymus ) elicit one of two reactions: love or hate. Some people don’t see the point of growing something, the...
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Maureen Little
Aug 34 min read
Is Planting by the Moon luna-cy?
(Please excuse the pun in the title!) There’s a new moon tomorrow. At 11.13am to be precise. So I thought I would launch myself into...
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Maureen Little
Jul 204 min read
Lavender's Blue, Dilly Dilly ....
No, I’m not taking up folk singing (thank goodness, I hear my musical friends cry!), rather it seemed a good title for my post on...
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Maureen Little
Jul 63 min read
Days of wine - and strawberries!
As well as writing about pollinators and other gardening topics, I’m also a qualified wine educator and as such I really enjoy a glass of...
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Maureen Little
Jun 294 min read
I'm not a wallflower now
Are you a selective plantophobe? You know – are there certain plants that you just can’t stand? Those that, try as you might, you just...
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Maureen Little
Jun 154 min read
I eat my peas with honey ...
I eat my peas with honey; I've done it all my life. It makes the peas taste funny, But it keeps them on the knife. Actually, I don’t eat...
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Maureen Little
Jun 13 min read
Beauty and the Bees
We’re getting ever closer to rose season. Gertrude Stein (the early twentieth-century novelist and poet) famously wrote in a...
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Maureen Little
May 183 min read
Get Buzzing - 20th May is World Bee Day
In 2018 the United Nations designated the 20th May World Bee Day to raise the awareness of the importance of bees and other pollinators...
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Maureen Little
May 43 min read
If I May!
Well, here we are in May. It seems to me ‘may’ has lots of meanings (apart from its use as a modal verb and the name of the fifth month)...
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Maureen Little
May 13 min read
To Mow or not to Mow? That is the Question
It’s No Mow May time again! I’ve been reading a short article in the newspaper (1) about the initiative by Plantlife (2) about lawns and...
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