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Pots of Winter Colour
This morning I thought I’d share a little project I decided to get around to 5 years in to living in our house, although it’s more specifically a garden project. Every year, there’s so much effort put...
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Spring has Sprung!
Last week’s weather (I hope it was equally lovely where you are!) had me getting that feeling that I get every year as spring arrives, desperation to get into the garden. It’s been a while since I’ve...
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Rose tinted glasses: David Austin
This morning I thought I’d share or perhaps remind, some of you of the beautiful roses to be found at David Austin. Oft used as a replacement peony for brides getting married outside of peony season, I...
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Florence’s Favourite… Grow your own Veg
This week, my mind is already wandering towards the four day weekend approaching. Mine is looking like a mixed bag of glammed up fun with friends, days out in the country and a visit home to catch up...
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Florence’s favourite: Gardening books
This morning, I thought I’d share some of the sources of the wealth of knowledge I’ve accumulated on gardening. Most of that came from books over the years and I love getting a recommendation for a...
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How to plan your Garden
Believe it or not, before I wanted to be a Doctor, I wanted to be a landscape architect. It’s probably the years I watched my Dad re-landscape the gardens that we had in each house we moved to which...
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The Allotment Diaries… May
It’s time I updated you on the allotment… fast becoming an allotment saga in our house for a multitude of reasons. May has been a wash out, not least because of the weather. You might think that rain...
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Reverie Lifestyle: Festival Chic
It’s that time again! Head on over to Reverie magazine‘s blog to see my contribution this month with lifestyle inspiration to recreate festival chic in your garden. We’re not all lucky enough to be...
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Florence’s Favourite: Cottage Garden plants
Today I thought I would share a list of plants for those of you to buy who are looking to plant a cottage garden. Hugely popular, this style of planting yields lots of cutting flowers for the house and...
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The Southport Flower Show
Last weekend, I headed home to Southport and went back to something I used to do every year as a child, visiting the Southport Flower show. Jess wanted to get some garden inspiration but if you want to...
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Spotted: Festoons of Happiness
I’ve been obsessed with the strings of lights seen on American blogs, at outdoor weddings and even parties, since they first exploded onto the UK scene. I first saw them in outdoor weddings not long...
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#JanuaryJoy: Plan to revamp your garden
This weekend saw me out in my new garden for the first time. I’m characteristically so fed up of the doom and gloom in January that I want to get outside a lot. So far I have been waiting to see if any...
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Triple Temptation: Festoon lights
Seletti Bella Vista Outdoor light, £85 Heals // Auva string lights (50 lights) £29.98 B&Q // Pink festoon lights, £85 Out there interiors Last year I wrote a post about festoon lighting and listed...
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Triple temptation: Garden Furniture
As the completion of our kitchen comes to an end, the outside space is also getting underway. As our kitchen is above full height cellars, the ground floor level is about 1m above the garden. So we can...
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#JanuaryJoy – Plan a project
Good morning readers! I’ve left some of the prompts for this years #JanuaryJoy deliberately vague to allow as many people to join in as possible and whilst this particular prompt could encompass many...
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My (old) house garden…
Right now I am totally immersed in garden planning and I’ll be chatting about that soon, but first it occurred to me that I don’t think I ever shared my old garden, before we moved house. The new...
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Renovation Ruminations… The Garden
I have been ridiculously excited about our next renovation project for weeks, not least because it doesn’t involve my house being a complete mess! We decided this summer to tackle the garden, before...
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The Garden: Before
Our garden has already been through a partial make-over as when we did the kitchen we also did the deck which the bifold doors open out onto and that made quite a change. It drastically altered our...
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Spotted: Bargain outdoor furniture from IKEA
A very quick post for you this morning readers… my latest bargain find from IKEA. As you know, we are doing the garden at the moment and it was finished last week (look out for a full post showing you...
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The Garden: During and After
If you’d like to see how the garden looked before, then head on back to my first post here. We started ripping out the garage at the beginning of May and had it ‘sort of’ finished by mid-June. I hasten...
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