My Global Garden

Oh what a beautiful morning!

29. May 2009

Woke up at 5.30am with the sun streaming through the window and the garden beckoning. Outside the wildlife was already up and working - the flowers busy with bees and butterflies taking their early morning nectar.We really need a hot summer to help boost the butterfly population who have found it hard to reproduce in the [...]

Flower Power beats the gym

28. May 2009

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Its official. Gardening is good for you. It will rank alongside sport to meet a government target to make Britons more active ahead of the 2012 Olympics. The 2008/2009 Active People Survey is being conducted via a telephone poll of 18,000 Britons who will be interviewed about their physical activity - to register you have to be [...]

Will 2009 be hot enough for melons?

12. May 2009

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Forever the optimist, I have planted two melons in my conservatory to take advantage of all the promised heat for summer 2009. There is an Ogen and an F1 Sweetheart/Charantais now settling into a grow bag alongside a red pepper plant that has lots of flowers. I am hoping to use the pepper plant to attract [...]