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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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