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We've made quite a few changes in the garden to attract more butterflies as well as bees. So when Belightful asked if I would like to try a Butterfly Oasis, I said yes! I had a choice of three colours that are attractive to butterflies: pink, purple and
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Our garden has thrived on neglect this year. We've done just enough to scrape by and reign in anything growing out of control. I snapped a few photos here and there — they aren't in any particular order which is why it looks like all of the
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My earliest avocado related memory is my Dad trying to grow one of the stones. It lay covered in compost on the kitchen windowsill until we noticed a horrible smell wafting around. The stone had gone rotten. Needless to say, we never did get any avocados. I'd forgotten
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The slug situation became so dire I resorted to going out on slug patrol at night with a torch. I scooped up the fattiest, juiciest ones and took them down the road — killing them is a grim job and I'd rather not do it when they can be
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Hello folks! I've had a bit of a digital Spring clean and changed a few things around around here. I finally came up with a new name and resigned by blog (previously gemmagarner.com). Anyway, now you know who I am I'll get to the good
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Spring is here and most of us green fingered folk are thinking about what to grow over the year ahead. Our front and back gardens are very small; 3m x 3m in the front and 10m x 9m in the back. We don't have a great deal of
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The garden may be looking a bit swampy at the moment but the birds are making up for a lack of anything else going on. Temperatures dropped so our feeder has been busier than usual. When it's cold I tend to go to town with fatcake, meal worms
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You know a friend is a good one when they text first thing in the morning to tip you off about frozen cobwebs. Overnight we'd had a hard frost; it had settled on every last strand. So of course I was out there with my camera like a
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