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Weeds – what’s weeds?

by AnneWareham on June 11, 2013

Meadow with buttercups and Brodiaea at Veddw copyright Anne Wareham

Weeds attract repetitive garden articles, as useful as those about slugs. So I’ll try and spare you the cliches and report my current thinking.

A visitor yesterday took me to see the flower of ground elder, thinking it was cow parsley. No difference as far as he was concerned, nor me neither. He thought it shouldn’t be there. I thought it looked great. [..read more..]

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Using a matrix

May 31, 2013

A matrix is ” A situation or surrounding substance within which something else originates, develops, or is contained”. That’s one, above. Now I know that the usual way of planting in the uk is to buy a plant, wander round with it in its pot, looking for a space where you can squeeze it in. Or [...]

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Is it worth removing these flowers?

May 23, 2013

Just how important is detail in the garden – or, at what point does it begin to matter?? The planting in the front garden at Veddw at this time of year has quite bold patches of telling foliage and flower. The effect is kind of clean.. But then the variegated ground elder flowers. And to [...]

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Propagating without trying

May 18, 2013

In the conservatory at Veddw we have a display of succulents, which we love and other people seem to, too. Makes for visitor entertainment when they are sheltering from the pouring rain. Personally, I like them better when they’re not flowering.

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Good things

May 13, 2013

After writing about destruction, time to write about some mending. Some people will remember the removal of the box balls from the front garden. Now Jeff has made created a new front garden for us (ish – the plants are all the same..) This was no small task, as the garden, in spite of appearances, is [...]

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Death and snow damage.

May 9, 2013

Veddw may not be an over gardened zone, but it does make demands. Last year three full grown trees – cotoneasters – died and had to be removed. A huge job and many thanks to Jeff for doing all that work. That disaster was then followed by heavy snow – about 10 or 12 inches. [...]

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What Are Gardens For? plus shameless self promotion..

April 26, 2013

I’m sorry to begin another post with a disagreement with a much respected colleague, (see also) but here I go again. And it is also one of the joys of blogging that I can. Once we had to struggle to get a voice, now we can take one…

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Weeding

April 25, 2013

I did some hand weeding the other day. I know. I know. First time since never…. All the better to learn something then. And I did – see if you agree. It was the creeping buttercup curse.

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Everything In The Garden Is Lovely by Alasdair Aston

April 23, 2013

Sometimes I get really fed up of ‘lovely gardens’ and all the other lovelies…and then I remember this poem… Everything In The Garden Is Lovely by Alasdair Aston Even the fat slug That drags its belly nightly

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Taking the pictures….

April 22, 2013

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