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14 Jun, 2008
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Return to the Yellow Brick Road - Part 4
The Plants (4)
Well, at times I feel a bit scared of how quickly time passes-especially as one grows older! It seems like no time at all since...
4 Jun, 2008
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Gardening Scotland 2008
Well, hot on the heels of the Chelsea Flower Show, Scotland held her own horticultural extravaganza last weekend from Friday to Sunday, at the...
20 Apr, 2008
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Dundee Spring Garden Show
I finally managed to visit this event, and, boy, am I glad I did! It really gave me a boost in April. The variety of spring-flowering plants...
2 Apr, 2008
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Return to the Yellow Brick Road - Part Three
The Plants (3)
In my previous blog, I wrote about some of the "Oz" fruit and veggies we had sown (which are all doing really well) but, more...
19 Mar, 2008
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Return to the Yellow Brick Road - Part Two
The Search for "Oz" Plants (2).
With the Snowdrop Festival and the school Spring Fayre over, it's time to knuckle down and get our Wizard of...
14 Mar, 2008
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School Spring Fayre
Our village Primary School held a Spring Fayre this evening, as the finale to its "Healthy Living" week. As my wife had "volunteered" me a couple...
1 Mar, 2008
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Making an Early Start.
A couple of weeks ago, i checked on my seed potato tubers, which were stored in a shoe box in the coolest cupboard in the kitchen, and was horrified...
24 Feb, 2008
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Gardening with Friends (2)
A couple of weeks ago, Weemamabell wrote to me, offering her surplus seeds to sell off cheaply on our plant stall at our forthcoming school Spring...
17 Feb, 2008
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My Recent Discoveries in the City of Discovery.
I can never visit Dundee without making a trip to Camperdown Country Park, a 395-acre estate on the north-west edge of the city. Usually, we...
9 Feb, 2008
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"Gardening with Friends"
Today was "historic" for us as we actually met up with a fellow GOY member-Patrick-in the garden of his sister-in-law, Helen (incidentally, the...
8 Feb, 2008
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Tornado!
I was deeply humbled, today, to read about the lethal tornados which swept across 5 States of the US recently, killing 55 people. While I am...
28 Jan, 2008
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Scottish Snowdrop Festival
I have just picked up a brochure on this forthcoming event, organised by Scotland's Gardens Scheme and the National Trust for Scotland. It runs...
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