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Note To Self

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Pruning For Wildlife

One of the most common suggestions for attracting wildlife to the garden is "plant a Buddleia". If you are like me, you may just need to let nature take its course - two of my Buddleia bushes arrived as seeds on the breeze, but they are easily found in most garden centres.

Different beasties like different colours, so choose according to whom you wish to attract. Bees like darker blues and ... read more

Signs of Spring

Yesterday I saw flocks of geese travelling North and I smiled up at them, hoping their sky arrows pointed to Spring. Today I went to the garden to tackle some of the detritus of Winter - one carrier bag of cat poo lifted from the main veg plot the remains of my first greenhouse after "Hurricane Bawbag" I'm sure there will be more cat poo, but I could only stomach lifting one bag today. It needs to be said that I do not own cats, nor do I hate ... read more

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