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Perennial power

Perennial power

The time has come to take inside any tender plants you treasure to ensure they are not caught by an early frost.

The weather forecasters have started to talk of frost and if you have anything precious, then bring it into a greenhouse or on to a windowsill indoors.


Rural Reading- Walking on the wild side of Reading

It’s fungi time with Fly Agaric ’n’ Liberty Cap

Autumn colour feast!

Autumn colour feast!

The tree that colours most attractively in my garden is the Amelanchier canadensis, an extraordinarily pretty little tree which earns its keep with flowers and berries in my tiny back garden.

 

Heap good idea – compost at heart of the garden

Heap good idea – compost at heart of the garden

Over the next two months most of us will have lots of garden waste to get rid of and the best place for most of it is in the compost heap.
Reading in bloom despite the gloom

Reading in bloom despite the gloom

These are the blooming marvellous people who helped make the borough blossom in one of the gloomiest summers on record.

 

 

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