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The growing season is over – time for your garden to rest and you to reflect

For those of us in the northern hemisphere winter has arrived. And perhaps more importantly for the plant world, we are also entering into our Persephone Days. This phrase (named after the...
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Want a tree for the garden? Ask yourself these questions first

Part of gardening’s beauty is the ephemerality of it: taking care of a plot can encourage a rich...
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Plant a new flowerbed now and everything will look rosy by spring

Something about this time of year makes me yearn to cut in a new flowerbed and fill it...
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I love gazing at my garden as summer melds into autumn. Then I start to plan

Can you feel it? The shift? Sunday is the autumn equinox, when night and day will be almost exactly...
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And so farewell, it’s time to say goodbye to my gardening column

So here, my final Observer column. Plot 29 has reached its autumn. Maybe me, too. I stepped away from...

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