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Licencetokillslugs: Tough plants from Yorkshire
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Battles against nature in a small town garden. Tuesday, 7 May 2013. Tough plants from Yorkshire. Plants bought this weekend: 24. (This included a tray of 12 annuals so it's not as bad as it sounds). This Saturday, I visited Dark Star Plants. In North Yorkshire during a visit to my parents. I was prompted to visit by an article in The English Garden Magazine. Dark Star Plants have created their nursery within the old walled garden of Rounton Grange. 8 May 2013 at 09:32. 8 May 2013 at 21:25. Dark Star are ...
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Licencetokillslugs: August 2012
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Battles against nature in a small town garden. Monday, 27 August 2012. Coffee outlawed as slug deterrent. Brussels politicians must wake up to this kind of thing every morning. Dr Andrew Halstead, principle plant scientist at the RHS has warned that gardeners using coffee grounds as slug repellent could risk heavy fines - although the chances of prosecution, he suspects, are remote. Wednesday, 15 August 2012. Plants bought: 0 (wrong time of year I guess). Gardening magazines purchased: 1. Apparently a wa...
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Licencetokillslugs: February 2013
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Battles against nature in a small town garden. Tuesday, 19 February 2013. RHS London Plant and Design Show. Note to Helene from Graphicality - you NEED irises! Vast tables of spring bulbs lifted everyone's hearts out of the frosty morning. Hellebores gave off a radiant but delicate glow. If he is seen at shows. I had to take photos with my mobile instead. Slugs - or rather those who warrior against them were also represented. I bought three of these anti-slug rings. Sunday, 17 February 2013. CAT) and edi...
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Licencetokillslugs: Hellebore orientalis 'red hybrid'
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Battles against nature in a small town garden. Tuesday, 5 March 2013. Hellebore orientalis 'red hybrid'. I've been after a pink hellebore for a while. It's been a furtive kind of lust, pretending to Le Photographe that I'm not going to buy anything else until I've finished the garden design course. It was thus that my ongoing love-hate relationship with the 'boutique' N1 Garden Centre. What perturbed me was this flower on one of the plants:. Helleborus orientalis 'red hybrid' in white. I hate shops that ...
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Licencetokillslugs: Chelsea Flower Show
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Battles against nature in a small town garden. Sunday, 26 May 2013. Plants bought: 0. Didn't go on plant sell-off day so this is not really an achievement. Hours spent on feet: 8.5. Hours spent in heavy rain: 9. Garden magazines bought:0. None on sale but also weaning. What can you say about Chelsea? Meant but frankly who cares when you have eyes only for an astonishing grouping of plants. Sumptuous planting by Roger Platt. To being akin to 'a helipad and an ashtray' and I can only say that I am sorry th...
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Licencetokillslugs: May 2013
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Battles against nature in a small town garden. Sunday, 26 May 2013. Plants bought: 0. Didn't go on plant sell-off day so this is not really an achievement. Hours spent on feet: 8.5. Hours spent in heavy rain: 9. Garden magazines bought:0. None on sale but also weaning. What can you say about Chelsea? Meant but frankly who cares when you have eyes only for an astonishing grouping of plants. Sumptuous planting by Roger Platt. To being akin to 'a helipad and an ashtray' and I can only say that I am sorry th...
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Licencetokillslugs: September 2012
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Battles against nature in a small town garden. Sunday, 9 September 2012. The seedy truth about this blog. Le Photographe and I were sitting in a restaurant last night when he said to me, "You know one thing I like about you? Eventually therefore some seedlings did grow into mature plants. This is not that surprising by the laws of mathematics as I probably planted thousands of seeds. Here's a confessional of some of these hardy plants that survived my gardening. Cosmos bipiniatus 'Purity'. Allegedly.
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Licencetokillslugs: June 2012
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Battles against nature in a small town garden. Friday, 29 June 2012. Visits to garden centre: 1 (unscheduled). Plants purchased: 0. (Resolve of steel). Hours spent gardening: 1. Slugs and snails killed: 10. Garden magazines purchased: Gardener's World (ex subscriber). I woke up this morning to find that this slug was coasting right across my terrace in the open. I think this plant will be slug resistant. According to Gardener's World, slugs like beer but not lager. As you need curry to go with la...Garde...
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