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  • Garden Blog - May '24
    17 May 24

    The famous ‘Peasant Poet of Northamptonshire’, John Clare, in his set of lively pastoral poems titled ‘The Shepherd’s Calendar’, published in 1824, begins his offering for May thus: “Come, Queen of Months!
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  • Garden Blog - Apr '24
    19 Apr 24

    As popular playwright of yesteryear, William Shakespeare, put it, in Sonnet XCVIII, ‘April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.’ He wasn’t wrong.
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  • Garden Blog - Mar '24
    15 Mar 24

    For our Roman overlords, March was the month of Mars, god of war, when the arrival of spring meant that their armies, always itching for a bust-up somewhere or other, could get back to fighting after a winter break.
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