Ooh…Look What We’ve Done In Our Garden!

9 September 2014 - Joanna Hazelton
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We’ve only gone and done it… And, I have to say, I do feel rather smug about it :-). I’ve never really liked our patio area. Dirty grey stones that were forever needing jet washing and nasty little weeds that were forever growing, despite constant weeding and copious amounts of weedkiller. I swear, if weeds […]

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Ooh…Look What We've Done In Our Garden!

- Joanna Hazelton
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We’ve only gone and done it… And, I have to say, I do feel rather smug about it :-). I’ve never really liked our patio area. Dirty grey stones that were forever needing jet washing and nasty little weeds that were forever growing, despite constant weeding and copious amounts of weedkiller. I swear, if weeds […]

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Lovely Day for a Picnic – What Are You Bringing?

10 June 2014 - Joanna Hazelton
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1738 was a momentous year for the English picnic. This was the year the London department store Fortnum & Mason invented the Scotch egg (you’ll never be stuck for a conversation opener again!). Now, I am rather partial to a picnic it has to be said – although I would happily swap the Scotch eggs […]

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Have Fun Transforming Your Garden

8 April 2014 - Joanna Hazelton
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Fed up after months of gloom, frost and rain, our damson trees appear to be summing up the feeling of the garden as a whole with its glorious blossom seemingly rejoicing at the good weather (I feel a poem coming on…).
Seeing this has inspired me to give the garden some well deserved TLC.
Trouble is, my list keeps getting longer by the day as I think of more things that we need, sorry, my husband needs to do to breathe life back into the garden and give it a well deserved facelift (don’t we all?!).
But I do appreciate my husband isn’t getting any younger and I am concerned about who will do the cooking if he’s too busy in the garden. So I’ve scaled things down and come up with a list of top ideas for creating a new look, dream garden.

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