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Thursday, 30 May 2019

Late Spring Garden 2019

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The potager is humming along, revving up its growth rate to take on the summer push which will lead into late summer/autumnal harvesting: p...
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Thursday, 23 May 2019

Book Review / Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Warner Townsend

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Meet Lolly. She's an useful, acquiescent, and stifled member of the early 20th century, British middle-class. Before her widowed father...
Thursday, 16 May 2019

Iron Cookware Series: Roasted Salmon & Spiced Rhubarb With Fresh Pea shoots

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Rhubarb is more than just pie or preserves or crumble. It pairs wonderfully with salmon.  Yes, it must be sweetened in this savoury instanc...
Thursday, 9 May 2019

Fruit, Veg, Flowers & Feline

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Fresh April green here and there has morphed into verdant lushness all over. The first fig crop is forming while the second and more substa...
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Thursday, 2 May 2019

Pairing Roses With Ivy; Plus Lilies Of The Valley, Yucca, Tulips & Calla Lillies

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Our garden seems to be the only one festooned with beautifying ivy in our quartier . Perhaps because so many think that ivy is the great de...
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Thursday, 25 April 2019

Mostly Tulips But Also Periwinkle, Spiraea, Lamium & Ivy

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As I dash around doing my late-day garden rounds, flashes of bright colour skim my peripheral vision, and though I know they are tulips whi...
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Thursday, 21 March 2019

Spring Break 2019

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Souped-up Garden, the blog, that is, is taking a break because our potager is budding, sprouting, warming up, chirping, and turning green l...
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