Things have taken a turn for the inclement over the past day or two…
Read moreDay 251: Rose ‘Gentle Hermione’
A hot day – proper, sunny summer stuff – and the garden is starting to flag a little…
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Arriving fashionably late, my ‘Lady of Shallot’ rose has graced the border with a bloom or two, just in time to catch the end of the wallflowers and some of the geums…
Read moreDay 5: bare-root roses
They don’t look much just now – a bundle of prickly sticks with a tangle of brown roots….
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