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Late Summer – Spectacular Flowers
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The Woods
The local Community Woods group kept up our work parties through most of the worst of all this pandemic malarkey. After all, it’s all outdoors. And we keep well apart one from the other. So except for the first six … Continue reading
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chilli update & outfoxing the foxes
After a week of heatwave conditions of over 30 degrees in London, the weather turned on Thursday 13 August with spectacular thunder, lightning and torrential rain. No doubt the Hungarian chilli plant enjoyed the sweltering conditions more than we did, … Continue reading
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shoe mystery solved
We’ve been cursing our neighbourhood lately. Pandemic aside, our little leafy corner of north London is awash in rubbish. Missed garbage collections on the circus makes for growing tides of swirling garbage. Drives super-dude nuts – to the extent that … Continue reading
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blooms out back
The back patch gardens are left to take care of themselves with very little attention given, now that we’re constantly heading to the allotment. But that’s not a problem really, as most of the back patch planting is of perennials … Continue reading
stargazing day & night
The stargazer asiatic lily has finally come into bloom in the back patch. All through April and May I monitored for the dreaded red lily beetle – which did manage (again!!!) to completely strip a few of the garden lilies … Continue reading
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and so it goes..
We’ve been down the rabbit hole for the past few weeks. There has been lots of summer rain – sometimes light showers, sometimes sustained, pounding downpours. And so on the enforced wet days when we couldn’t garden anyway, we got … Continue reading
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triple duty day
Yesterday was one of those gorgeous sunny days. The morning sky was clear blue with not a cloud in sight. Full sun, hot but not too hot as there was a lovely gentle summer breeze. By the afternoon there was … Continue reading
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back patch veg beds – a progress report
At the end of last week I slipped out of the flat early in the morning to get a head start on a general tidy and overall assessment of the state of play in the back patch vegetable patch. This … Continue reading
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the plot thickens…
It seemed a good thing to do – to offer to do some weeding and tending at a friend’s allotment plot, given that she’s locked in during coronavirus. But wow! What a lot of extra work. Given a chance weeds … Continue reading
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Philosophising... 