Tag Archives: “My Garden Age”

Rainy Day Benefits

Posted on April 15, 2018 by

All my recent posts about welfare benefits have dragged my down, not helped by the everyday rain.     It seems like I have chosen the driest subject to talk about in the wettest spring I can remember.    It … Continue reading →

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My Garden Age 70

Posted on November 2, 2017 by

My garden is growing faster than me,  steadily,  constantly, relentlessly. Some of the trees, shrubs and flowers, were there before me and will be there after me.   I was born into my garden age, to nurture the things around … Continue reading →

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Aimlessly Aiming

Posted on September 21, 2017 by

It’s a dryin’ lovely, Michalmas daisy kind of day; A bulb planting, sow the seeds of spring beginning. The old age starting of a new life, a year at a time. My Garden Age.   Less of a young years … Continue reading →

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My Garden Age 3

Posted on May 16, 2017 by

It’s been a three years since I last wrote about my garden.  (You can see all the earlier posts on my garden by clicking on “My Garden Age” in the TAG CLOUD). This year has been a particularly good year … Continue reading →

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My Garden Age – Apple Tree

Posted on April 27, 2014 by

Not to be outdone by the spring flowers, (see my last post) the cox’s apple tree is just breaking into bloom , waking from its winter slumber.    How many more years will this grandfather of the garden continue to deliver … Continue reading →

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My Garden Age – Spring Flowers

Posted on April 20, 2014 by

Spring just has to be one of the best times of the year in the garden.  After the hibernation of colour through the winter months the daffodils in February/March herald the beginning of a rainbow.  Now by April/May the picture … Continue reading →

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“Flowers are Friends”

Posted on August 16, 2012 by

In this wettest of summers, the garden has kept growing at a furious pace, weeds and all.  Everywhere is endlessly green.  Perhaps this is the real green party :-). The trouble is that the rain and the green get relentlessly … Continue reading →

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“My Garden Age” 2

Posted on September 20, 2011 by

It’s a windy apples-off-the-trees blow-away day.  Signs of summer fading fast.  Early autumn breeze wrestling with the browning leaves. Yet the garden still has much to give in its green old age.  The last flush of the roses as beautiful … Continue reading →

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“My Garden Age”

Posted on July 24, 2011 by

My Grandfather was a professional gardener, who worked for a garden enthusiast and writer – Avery Tipping.  Together they renovated several manor house gardens in the Chepstow area of Monmouthshire.  At one time there were over 40 gardeners working for my … Continue reading →

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