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The Late Autumn Garden (or I Loathe and Detest Leaf-Blowers)

Posted on November 2, 2019 by

I’m writing this on November 2nd and what a strange autumn it has been so far. I don’t think I can recall a wetter season: we’ve barely been able to get into the garden since we opened, back in late … Continue reading →

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Early Autumn: Getting ready to Open the Garden on September 21st and 22nd

Posted on September 10, 2019 by

Why is it that when deadlines approach, things always seem to go pear-shaped? I’m tempted to mention the Brexit fiasco, but it’s all too inept, divisive, dishonest and depressing. So let’s return to reality and what has been happening in … Continue reading →

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High Summer 2019: Hot and Wet

Posted on August 2, 2019 by

I think last Thursday, July 25th was the hottest day I’ve ever experienced and at 38.7o Celsius (101.66o Fahrenheit) the thermometer in the Cambridge University Botanic Garden agreed with me: an all-time British record. But it was the humidity that … Continue reading →

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Busy Mid-Winter

Posted on January 18, 2019 by

The longer term weather forecast doesn’t look too bad. The mid-winter high pressure ‘Dog Days’ that I wrote about in my last post of 2018, now appear likely to persist until at least January 15th. Thereafter the Met Office are … Continue reading →

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A Symbol of Hope: Our New Greenhouse is Now Built, Glazed and Will Soon Open for Business!

Posted on December 27, 2018 by

If it’s depressing to be a Brit in his seventies, younger people must be going out of their minds. And somehow things seem so much worse at the end of the year, especially when the BBC and newspaper journalists produce … Continue reading →

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2018: A Climactic Autumn

Posted on October 19, 2018 by

Following the success of this year’s NGS Open Garden, I was preparing myself for something of an anti-climax autumn. But first I had to head north for a Time Team/Dig Ventures event which took place on Lindisfarne, Holy Island, the … Continue reading →

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What a Great Weekend That Was!

Posted on September 20, 2018 by

I have to confess that late in July, at the height of the summer’s blistering heat-wave, we seriously wondered whether there would be any flowers in the garden to show our visitors in mid-September, at all. The grass was brown, … Continue reading →

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