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GARDEN BLOG - MARCH
04 Mar 26“Infamy, infamy, they’ve all got it in for me!” Surely the most affecting (or should that be affected) take on the final moments in the life of well-known Roman Emperor, Julius Caesar, must be that delivered by popular national treasure of yesteryear, Kenneth Williams, in the 1964 classic historical comedy, Carry-on Cleo.
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GARDEN BLOG FEBRUARY 2026
03 Feb 26Snowdrops and hellebores If a gardening friend should ever suggest you go outside to admire their ‘dingle-dangles’, be sure to wrap-up well as you might be outdoors for quite some time.
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GARDEN BLOG - JANUARY 2026
07 Jan 26Here we are in a new year, and the seasonal festivities of late are now well and truly behind us.
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GARDEN BLOG - DECEMBER 2025
09 Dec 25As the popular seasonal nursery rhyme of yesteryear would have it; “Christmas is coming, and the goose is getting fat”.
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GARDEN BLOG - NOVEMBER 2025
31 Oct 25Dull November brings the blast, Then the leaves are whirling fast.
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Garden Blog - September 2025
02 Sep 25In 1751, William Hogarth, famed English painter, engraver, cartoonist, and writer, created the well-known satirical print, Gin Lane, as part of a campaign to combat the ‘Gin Craze’, a period of rampant, cheap gin consumption, that fuelled all sorts of social ills.
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Garden Blog - August 2025
06 Aug 25Mr B E Gent, is most certainly not be a household name these days, but his snappily titled ‘A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew’, published in 1699, and aimed at educating polite London society types about slang phraseology employed by the lower orders, introduced for the first time in print a Scottish aphorism we all know well, that being ‘’you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear’’.
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Garden Blog - July 2025
10 Jul 25Caribbean calypso sensation, Alphonsus Celestine Edmund Cassell MBE, otherwise known as Arrow, could easily have been describing this summer thus far with his hit party tune ‘Hot Hot Hot’.
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Garden Blog - June 2025
02 Jun 25As the popular idiom so wisely observes, ‘time flies when you're having fun’.
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Garden Blog - May 2025
08 May 25The year races on, and we are in May already, where spring turns into summer.
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