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Author: Griselda Kerr

Tulipa hageri ‘Little Beauty’
Gardening 

Ups and Downs of Gardening

Griselda Kerr 6 April 20228 May 2022

Surely April and May are the two trickiest months of the year?   ‘Hooray’ we say with a light heart, ‘it is warm and

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Snowdrops and pools of winter aconites
Gardening 

February Garden

Griselda Kerr 8 February 20227 April 2022

February is a month of such surprises. How many of us have actually counted the number of different genera flowering in their garden

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The author in her garden, January 2021
Gardening 

January Contrasts

Griselda Kerr 4 January 202228 April 2022

Do you remember last January (2021)?  We had deep snow here in Melbourne and probably Ticknall too, so there was little gardening possible

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Asiatic Lily ‘Foxtrot’, Dower House garden early July
Gardening 

Musings on Mid-Summer’s Magic in Gardens

Griselda Kerr 16 July 202111 August 2021

Every season in a garden has its peaks and troughs and they do not necessarily come at the same moment for everyone –

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Gardening 

Fun Gardening with an Isolated Child

Griselda Kerr 26 March 20204 April 2021

Here in South Derbyshire, we are lucky to be living in the countryside where we can go for walks and keep our two

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Gardening 

Winter Gardening

Griselda Kerr 29 November 201926 March 2020

Winter gardening – I love it;  whilst there is much to do, there is time to do it whilst not in a headlong

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