@AnneWareham

Garden maker - https://xitter.cf/t.co/0jDKPL6KqE. Garden writer - Outwitting Squirrels has sold over 40 thousand copies: and you haven't got one??!!! https://xitter.cf/t.co/2OWuLM9aKH

 Welsh border, United Kingdom
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Joined July 2009
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Bewildered by our Best Garden gardenrant.com/2024/05/bewil…

Bewildered by our Best Garden - GardenRant

The thing which lifts my spirits in the cold wet spring is first, a ray of sunshine, and second colour! And yes, that does include green. Spring green: But most of all, something with real pow! And,...

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Sir Roy Strong’s Garden at The Laskett gardenrant.com/2024/04/sir-r…

Sir Roy Strong's Garden at The Laskett - GardenRant

We live fairly near The Laskett. So seeing it was open, we thought we'd have an afternoon out and went to visit. And we took lots of photos - so thanks to Charles for his contributions.

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April is the cruellest month. gardenrant.com/2024/04/april…

April is the cruellest month. - GardenRant

                            April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. TS Eliot From The Wasteland.          ...

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On not leaving Home. gardenrant.com/2024/04/on-no…

On not leaving Home. - GardenRant

I know people move their homes because they have to. For their work, for their partner, to downsize, to be closer to friends or relatives, maybe for a change. And many people don’t mind this much or...

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Words in a Garden, by @AnneWareham open.substack.com/pub/annewa…
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Tulip Fever gardenrant.com/2024/03/tulip…

Tulip Fever - GardenRant

An Easter Treat: There's only one flower which makes me catch my breath on sight. Well, at least that's as far as I can remember at this time of year. And last night it was this: Tulip Pastel Parrot...

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To Encourage Wildlife? gardenrant.com/2024/03/to-en…

To Encourage Wildlife? - GardenRant

“I garden with two main motivations: to encourage wildlife and to grow edibles.” You will all hate me for this, but this appeared on my screen and my heart plummeted. Do I really need to explain? ...

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RIP To My Favourite Tree gardenrant.com/2024/03/rip-t…

RIP To My Favourite Tree - GardenRant

I've been visiting the Royal Horticultural Society's garden at Rosemoor in Devon, UK, for 20 years or more now. Over that time I've seen many changes, some grand and some subtle. Best of all I've...

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Defending Bad Taste gardenrant.com/2024/03/defen…

Defending Bad Taste - GardenRant

I'm absolutely amazed by how many plants there are. I know the plants in my garden well; I have paid for them and chose them above others. Yet every time I visit a garden or a nursery I see plants...

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How Many Words for Gardening? gardenrant.com/2024/03/how-m…

How Many Words for Gardening? - GardenRant

Legend has it that Inuit have more than 100 words for snow. A friend told us yesterday that we need a similar number of words for gardening. She had just asked Charles what he’d been doing outside...

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Monmouthshire Way day 8: Car park near Llwyn-du to Blaenavon charleshawes.veddw.com/the-m… via @charlesbchawes

Monmouthshire Way day 8: Car park near Llwyn-du to Blaenavon

Date walked: 12th August 2023 (the Llanfoist to Blaenavon bit) Distance: About 10 miles Map used: Ordnance Survey OL 13: Brecon Beacons National Park – with the route downloaded onto my phone using…

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Mark Drakeford's reply when asked about Vaughan Gething's controversial donation walesonline.co.uk/news/polit…

Mark Drakeford's reply when asked about Vaughan Gething's controversial donation

He refused to criticise his beleaguered economy minister

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Favour the Fern gardenrant.com/2024/02/favou…

Favour the Fern - GardenRant

Many years ago The Financial Times sent me to do a feature on the RHS ‘Flower Show’ at Tatton Park . I was totally naïve and had no idea what I was supposed to do or to write about. So my excitement...

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Leave your camera at home?, by @AnneWareham open.substack.com/pub/annewa…
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Leave your Camera at Home? gardenrant.com/2024/02/leave…

Leave your Camera at Home? - GardenRant

In late November last year I took myself to Japan to visit some gardens. My itinerary was created from three sources: the rather ridiculously titled 1001 Gardens you must see before you die, edited...

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Gardens Need Critics gardenrant.com/2024/02/garde…

Gardens Need Critics - GardenRant

This piece of mine was originally published in the Garden Design Journal in 2002. It seemed to me to be potentially useful to follow on from Marianne's last piece for anyone interested in thinking...

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A dirty word in gardening: Criticism gardenrant.com/2024/02/a-dir…

A dirty word in gardening: Criticism - GardenRant

Today, or rather tonight (as I have let my day get away from me), I wanted to pick up on a discussion in the comments section of a post that Anne recently wrote regarding Garden Awards.  Yes, we do...

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A Winter Privilege gardenrant.com/2024/01/a-win…

A Winter Privilege - GardenRant

January is a strange month. I start out having just finished my only actual 'holiday' of the year and it feels like rather a struggle to get going on gardening things. By the end of the month it...

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Garden Treats gardenrant.com/2024/01/garde…

Garden Treats - GardenRant

I thought you might like some small, copyable, garden treats. They call them 'takeaways' in the UK media. They are the kind of thing that gives you a lift of spirits when you visit a garden. That you...

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Don’t be afraid to sow perennial flower seeds gardenrant.com/2024/01/dont-…

Don’t be afraid to sow perennial flower seeds - GardenRant

  Do you feel you don’t have the nerve, time or skill to germinate perennial seeds? Don’t worry. You’re not alone. Step right this way. I’m going to show you how easy and how much fun sowing perenn...

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