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1. Great gift – huge tub of blood, fish and bone
Get Wokingham, Friday 28 November 2008Having perused some of the Christmas gift ideas for the gardener in your family in the supplements and magazines, I wonder if I am really a gardener at all.
2. My festive berries are being eaten by fat pigeon
Get Wokingham, Friday 21 November 2008Gardening at this time of year is a bit like housework where you save yourself extra effort if you tidy as you go.
3. The garden expert who had no garden...
Get Wokingham, Thursday 13 November 2008Louise Hampden would peer into people’s gardens, green with envy because she didn’t have one.
4. November in bloom!
Get Wokingham, Friday 14 November 2008There is a little self-congratulatory exercise that I like to carry out this time of year.
5. Ready for a real raking
Get Wokingham, Friday 24 October 2008Autumn is a very good time for a garden workout and raking must be the best exercise there is.
6. Plant now – and create fireworks in the borders
Get Wokingham, Friday 31 October 2008It will be Bonfire Night soon but now is the time to think about creating some fireworks in the garden next season.
7. Enjoy grass of class
Get Wokingham, Friday 7 November 2008It is at times like these that I wonder about the value of a lawn.
8. Now’s the time to pull on the wellies – and garden
Get Wokingham, Friday 26 September 2008Last Monday saw the vernal equinox and from now until the spring our nights will be longer than the days.
9. Reading in bloom despite the gloom
Get Wokingham, Friday 26 September 2008These are the blooming marvellous people who helped make the borough blossom in one of the gloomiest summers on record.
10. Autumn colour feast!
Get Wokingham, Friday 3 October 2008The 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.