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Sweet violets used to be a very popular cut flower. In Victorian times ladies would pin sweet violets to their clothes and hair. The cut flower industry is no more but sweet violets still deserve [...]

Shepton Mallet Snowdrop Festival is an annual event. It’s held every February. Snowdrops are at their best in February! This was our first visit to the Festival. We thoroughly enjoyed it. [...]

West Country Lupins have been developed high up on Exmoor. It’s not the place that I would choose to build a nursery but Woolsery is where that classic of the cottage garden the lupin has [...]

Weed control made easy may sound too good to be true! But in this blog I want to take a look at main options available to the gardener when faced with the inevitable flush of weeds that grow each [...]

A Great British Wildlife and Environment Map dropped into my letter box recently and the creator, Marvellous Maps, have asked me to review it. It was kind of them to ask me to do this and send me [...]