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A few years ago, in a previous garden, I was trying to grow a Clematis and it just wasn’t growing well. After two seasons, the growth was still weak and it wasn’t flowering. Puzzling over this, it suddenly hit me ...

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ME Awareness Day means…being aware that at 58, I’m probably going to be sick for the rest of my life. This isn’t being negative, it’s an honest assessment that the chances of a cure being found before I shuffle off ...

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You would think having a lovely garden to sit in, you would find me regularly resting there. You would think. However, the one curse of being a gardener, even one with ME, is that after five minutes of sitting there ...

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There is some gardening with ME that you can do in bed. I’m not joking. I do my best thinking about the garden whilst resting in bed. Over winter, I spent time reflecting on the past year, thinking about what ...

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that the more you pick Sweetpeas, the more they will flower. Until you realise that if you use your limited energy frequently picking Sweetpeas, then you won’t have energy to do anything else. Sigh. ...

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I had plans. I had so many plans. I wanted to visit the gardens of Iran. Soak up the history and culture of Morocco. Travel to the Caucasus on an alpine plant holiday of discovery. I wanted to finally be ...

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I don’t recall the last time I walked on a beach. It’s been years, then some more years still. To be fair, we either lived in Oxfordshire or South Yorkshire, which are no where near the beach. But mainly it ...

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