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 31
- 3 min
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 17
- 3 min
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 3
- 4 min
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 20
- 4 min
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 6
- 3 min
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 29
- 4 min
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 15
- 4 min
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 1
- 3 min
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 18
- 3 min
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 4
- 3 min
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 1
- 3 min
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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