Gillian's Blog

Need More Time!

I have been feeling guilty that I haven't had time to sit and go through everyone's wonderful pictures recently, I'm hoping it might rain one...

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Identification of mystery plants

I now have my list from the kind people at McKenzie seeds of what may be included in my 'Old Fashioned Flower Garden Mix'.For anyone else growing...

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Can anyone identify this?

I have been trying without success to identify this little flower that grew from my packet of 'Old Fashioned Flower Garden Mix' seeds. I wondered...

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Tags: Mystery

Help! Weed or Plant?!

I would welcome any advice on whether this is a weed or not. When they were smaller I thought they might be phlox but now I'm not so sure. They...

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Tags: weed

Finished digging the bed around the rock!

Finally, after much hard work, aches and pains, the bed around the rock is dug out! I'll have to keep checking it to pull up weeds and grass...

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Work begins in the new garden

Much as I want to live in the garden right now and put it to rights there are still many, many boxes to be dealt with indoors so I do bits here...

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The New Garden!

Finally saw our new garden without the snow and it looks like a fairly major project! I added some photos of it to show the before (and...

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Tags: Garden challenge new

Moving to a new garden

Well, tomorrow we start the move to a new house (again!) and I have as many plants as I can in pots ready to go. As always the extremely heavy...

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Tags: Garden moving new