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1. Gardening: Time to plant tulips
Get Wokingham, Saturday 24 November 2012November is a good month for planting tulips and yet if you try to buy bulbs now, you’ll be lucky to get any.
2. Recipe ideas when you're cooking for one
Get Wokingham, Friday 30 November 2012Wendy Hobson raises the key culinary problem for those who live by themselves.
3. Gardening: Magnificent Mahonias
Get Wokingham, Friday 30 November 2012As the garden descends into winter, it is worth taking a look around at its bone structure.
4. Have a Dickens of a Christmas
Get Wokingham, Friday 14 December 2012Food – or rather “wittles” – plays an important role in the opening passages of Great Expectations as Pip is accosted by the convict Abel Magwitch in the graveyard.
5. Gardening: Hideous poinsettias are just for Christmas
Get Wokingham, Monday 17 December 2012Christmas is the time of year when people give each other house plants.
6. Gardening: Hoar frost makes the garden sparkle
Get Wokingham, Friday 21 December 2012Last week I went home from work at about 6pm and watched the hoar frost appear on the grass as I drove.
7. Gardening: Schizostylis defies the frost
Get Wokingham, Monday 05 November 2012The first frost of winter lightly crusted the windscreen of the car on Saturday morning.
8. Gardening: Flax is a handsome addition to the border
Get Wokingham, Friday 09 November 2012A Kiwi colleague once told me that in his native land they made durable shopping bags from New Zealand flax.
9. Gardening: Everyone needs winter bloomers
Get Wokingham, Friday 16 November 2012The weather seems to have settled into a natural progression from autumn into winter, but the garden has recognised a hiccup in the process.
10. Gardening: Patience pays dividends in the garden
Get Wokingham, Friday 25 May 2012Patience is a virtue and, for the gardener, it is one which pays dividends – eventually.
