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Exactly how I plan my bulbs for spring (opens the original)
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Before I dive in, I wrote a piece on organic bulbs, the use of pesticides in the bulb industry and some values I’ll be putting in place going forward when purchasing. It was supposed to be one or two paragraphs in this, but I got in to a bit of a deep dive. Whoops.<a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RtCX!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubsta
Organic spring-flowering bulbs (opens the original)
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Do you ever go so far off on a tangent that you’ve suddenly written several hundred words and begin to realise, this is indeed, it’s own subject? Well, this article is a result of that.It’s bulb season, hurrah! I’ve started mapping out my bulb planning content, what, how, where and so on. I thought I’d do a little paragraph on sustainability within bulbs, low and behold, I got hyper-fixated and dove head first into many, many reports, studies and formed a whole new piece. Whoops.Anyway, ahead of
The planting shortlist: August (opens the original)
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August certainly feels like a good planning month for planting schemes next year, by this point you’ve seen what has been working (and in the case of this summer especially, not working), where the gaps of colour are and what needs amending for next year.That’s the practical part, but also as we go forward each year, in and around the garden, we also get to know ourselves and our tastes a little better. The garden for me, at home at least, has been fairly successful given the drought (apart from
The "grandma hobby" problem (opens the original)
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“It must be nice to do something a little more relaxing” - the standard comment after discussing my career change from marketing to horticulture. It’s complex, nuanced even. Yes, it is mentally a lot more soothing than the constant pressure of the entire business to ‘make us go viral’ whilst never being able to switch off - but relaxing? I’m not sure.Yes, the saunter around the work garden watering to ease in the morning, entirely relaxing. Pushing around lawn mower in the third heatwave of the
Gardening in a heatwave (opens the original)
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Technically not in a heatwave right now are we? Just day thirty-five of a rain hiatus (but who’s counting?) here in Kent. Half of the UK is officially in drought, and hosepipe bans are aplenty1. On opening Instagram you’re affronted with the latest wildfires, naturally I skim the comments only to find somehow people still manage to deny climate change. It’s a sorry state, all of it, the destruction and the ignorance. I was flicking back through my own photos from this time last year, we must of
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