In the garden
APART from a few shyly flowering primroses, the New Year’s Day flower count was almost identical to the one on Christmas day. Much to my…
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In the garden
LILY, the supreme illustrator, always has flowers in the house, and whenever I return to Shetland after staying with her I vow to do the…
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DURING the run-up to the festive season the garden invariably gets neglected, but as I like to have it looking just as ship-shape as the…
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AS WE’RE nearing the end of another year, I’ll take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends. It’s good to know that my…
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AFTER more than 30 years in Shetland, I still can’t get used to the idea of putting up a Christmas tree at the beginning of…
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EVER since August, strange noises have been coming from the direction of South America. They’re audible from quite a distance and sound like murmured conversations,…
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EVER since that hurricane last month, I’ve spent more and more time in the eastern regions of my garden. On the western front all is…
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WRITING about spring bulbs, corms and tubers in mid-November may strike some of my readers as a bit late, especially as the gardening publications tend…
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THE ESSENCE of my horticultural nostalgia has often been of a culinary nature, and has come to renewed prominence this summer. When I first arrived…
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IT’S been a number of years since we’ve had a storm of such ferocity and duration like the one last weekend – a good learning…
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WE’VE had quite a bit of rain of late, and some snow to boot; enough to thoroughly moisten the ground without turning the garden into…
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JUST now and again a woman needs a new winter coat. Having recently acquired a tomato red wool mini skirt in a Boden sale, I…
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MY NEIGHBOUR Jimmy recalls digging tatties out of the snow one October many years ago, and there was one occasion in the early 1990s when…
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BORDER clearance is still a hotly disputed subject as far as I can make out. Spring is now the nationally prescribed time because it’s considered…
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