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Fantastic open garden in the Brecon Beacons - RHS Partner Garden of the Year 2022
Yesterday’s blog on the phantom tulip snatcher had a photo of what might or might not have been the badger returning to the Bears Cave. It was so indistinct that even...
It seems that as fast as Sue plants her thousands of tulip bulbs, something comes along at night and digs them up. She’s tried: — putting paprika on them before planting...
And the following day the weather entry in the garden diary reads: “Much brighter today. Woke to a garden sprinkled in snow’ We’ll certainly be glad that the woodsheds are full...
“My favourite gardens have no borders”, says Sarah Price, starting off her recent article on ‘Wildflowers in gardens’ in Gardens Illustrated. Sarah has visited our garden a couple of times and...
The housemartins have finally left for their holidays down South, the fledglings have all left their nests, but there’s a new sounding of tweeting at Nant y Bedd – we’ve become...
Don’t worry, Sue hasn’t left the garden and signed up with the US Army! GI is apparently shorthand for the magazine Gardens Illustrated as used by “those in the know”. GI...
We just pulled the last of the onions and I have to say it’s been one of the best crops I’ve ever grown. We planted, as usual 2 varieties, but due...
At yesterday’s Llanthony & District Show we won a special Judges Gold Award for our vegetable garden. Unfortunately we didn’t get a lovely Gold Certificate to show you here, but we...
Sue reckons the original photo at the top of our blog looked “too suburban” for our “wild garden”. Ian isn’t sure that people understand what Sue means by “wild garden” and that...
One of the joys of “open gardening” is reading the comments afterwards in the Visitors Book. Here’s a sample from Sunday: What an absolute pleasure. Every turn reveals yet another surprise even...
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