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Licencetokillslugs: August 2012
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Battles against nature in a small town garden. Monday, 27 August 2012. Coffee outlawed as slug deterrent. Brussels politicians must wake up to this kind of thing every morning. Dr Andrew Halstead, principle plant scientist at the RHS has warned that gardeners using coffee grounds as slug repellent could risk heavy fines - although the chances of prosecution, he suspects, are remote. Wednesday, 15 August 2012. Plants bought: 0 (wrong time of year I guess). Gardening magazines purchased: 1. Apparently a wa...
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Licencetokillslugs: Hellebore orientalis 'red hybrid'
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Battles against nature in a small town garden. Tuesday, 5 March 2013. Hellebore orientalis 'red hybrid'. I've been after a pink hellebore for a while. It's been a furtive kind of lust, pretending to Le Photographe that I'm not going to buy anything else until I've finished the garden design course. It was thus that my ongoing love-hate relationship with the 'boutique' N1 Garden Centre. What perturbed me was this flower on one of the plants:. Helleborus orientalis 'red hybrid' in white. I hate shops that ...
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Licencetokillslugs: Chelsea Flower Show
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Battles against nature in a small town garden. Sunday, 26 May 2013. Plants bought: 0. Didn't go on plant sell-off day so this is not really an achievement. Hours spent on feet: 8.5. Hours spent in heavy rain: 9. Garden magazines bought:0. None on sale but also weaning. What can you say about Chelsea? Meant but frankly who cares when you have eyes only for an astonishing grouping of plants. Sumptuous planting by Roger Platt. To being akin to 'a helipad and an ashtray' and I can only say that I am sorry th...
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Licencetokillslugs: September 2012
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Battles against nature in a small town garden. Sunday, 9 September 2012. The seedy truth about this blog. Le Photographe and I were sitting in a restaurant last night when he said to me, "You know one thing I like about you? Eventually therefore some seedlings did grow into mature plants. This is not that surprising by the laws of mathematics as I probably planted thousands of seeds. Here's a confessional of some of these hardy plants that survived my gardening. Cosmos bipiniatus 'Purity'. Allegedly.
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Licencetokillslugs: June 2012
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Battles against nature in a small town garden. Friday, 29 June 2012. Visits to garden centre: 1 (unscheduled). Plants purchased: 0. (Resolve of steel). Hours spent gardening: 1. Slugs and snails killed: 10. Garden magazines purchased: Gardener's World (ex subscriber). I woke up this morning to find that this slug was coasting right across my terrace in the open. I think this plant will be slug resistant. According to Gardener's World, slugs like beer but not lager. As you need curry to go with la...Garde...
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Licencetokillslugs: November 2012
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Battles against nature in a small town garden. Tuesday, 27 November 2012. Time to plant some bulbs. Hours spent gardening: 6. Bulbs planted: another 264. Sycamore leaves collected: 6243. Worms accidentally guillotined: 200 or so. I've been anguished over bulbs after having seen the tulips by Bloms Bulbs. The final mix is a combination of Bloms. JP Parkers, Spaldings. Chelsea Flower Show, 2012. Sunday, 18 November 2012. Europe's shortest herbaceous border. Hours spent gardening: 6. Reader, I did not.
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Licencetokillslugs: July 2012
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Battles against nature in a small town garden. Thursday, 26 July 2012. Something compelled me to come on here after yesterday's post just to point out that there is irony in this blog. I am worried about international readers and would like to explain that this is British humour and it is not harmful. Wednesday, 25 July 2012. Garden's Illustrated are coming. Hours spent gardening this week: 0. Way too hot in England for gardening anymore. Slugs crisping gently on the terrace in the heat: 5. From a bare a...
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Licencetokillslugs: October 2012
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Battles against nature in a small town garden. Saturday, 13 October 2012. Hours spent gardening: 0. Hours the Spanish were seen to be gardening: 0. Number of plants in full bloom: 1000000. Number of plants observed to be dead, dying or failing to thrive despite being completely ignored: 0. Spanish gardening magazines purchased: 0 (language skills limited to ordering wine in all three colours at the bar). Village street in the Ronda mountains. A traditional matador in the famous bullring of Ronda.
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Licencetokillslugs: March 2013
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Battles against nature in a small town garden. Tuesday, 5 March 2013. Hellebore orientalis 'red hybrid'. I've been after a pink hellebore for a while. It's been a furtive kind of lust, pretending to Le Photographe that I'm not going to buy anything else until I've finished the garden design course. It was thus that my ongoing love-hate relationship with the 'boutique' N1 Garden Centre. What perturbed me was this flower on one of the plants:. Helleborus orientalis 'red hybrid' in white. Subscribe to: Post...
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Licencetokillslugs: December 2012
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Battles against nature in a small town garden. Tuesday, 18 December 2012. Gentian Diana from Spalding Bulbs. Part of the agreement with Spalding Plant and Bulb Company. Gentian in a green plastic bubble. The gentian was completely unscathed when unwrapped. Gentian survivor of the Christmas mail. Unidentified languages included with this gentian. Gentian Diana snug in its fleece. All in all, it seems like a good quality plant with healthy roots, safely packaged, quite pricey but once you start ordering th...