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Getting the pollinators to the garden table
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Herbs for Flavour: Mint
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Kitchen Library: Kale
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Indoor Pursuits
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A New Dawn and It Is 2021
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Herbs in a box
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The new ‘Nearly Normal’
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Chelsea Mini Press Day at Home
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The Gap That Was Chelsea… Is Now a Virtual Show
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House plant addicts – look no further
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Shh… listen to the bees a-buzzing and read all about it in ‘The Secret Lives of Garden Bees’ by Jean Vernon
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Lockdown Herbs, Veg and Ornamental Plant and Flower Resources
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Beating the Corona Blues in My Herb Garden
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‘Diary of a Modern Country Gardener’ by Tamsin Westhorpe
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Uncovering the Secrets of Cambridge Botanic Garden – A Post for the Candide App
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My herb inspirations for Advent 2019: Days 15–24
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Top Ten Festive Plants – A Post for the Candide App
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My herb inspirations for Advent 2019: Days 8–14
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My herb inspirations for Advent 2019: Days 1–7
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Powerful Plants for Halloween – my post for the Candide app
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Guild of Food Writers on Tour in the Waveney Valley
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Getting to know Japanese herbs and salad leaves
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RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2019… a glimpse
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Grenada – Island Paradise
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Books to linger with in the kitchen and the garden
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A Bundle of Herbs for Advent (Part 3)
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A Bundle of Herbs a Day for Advent (Part 2)
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A Bundle of Herbs for Advent (Part 1)
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Christmas trees just want to party…
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Christmas at Kew
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On my bookshelf: The Generous Gardener by Caroline Donald
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Staying home, thinking and sorting
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Getting pepped up
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On my bookshelf: The Illustrated College Herbal and A Taste of Herbs
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Show time in July… and the new one is the first Belvoir Flower & Garden Festival
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Peas & Love at Chelsea
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Celebrating Humphry Repton in 2018
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First-time flinger in Austin Texas
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Woottens then and now
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Suffolk artist and three exhibitions: Sir Cedric Morris (1889-1982)
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Racing to Ascot
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A herb a day in December (Part 2)
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A herb a day in December (Part 1)
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How we got from A to B: producing the text and images for Secret Gardens of East Anglia
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A taster of the book: 5 Secret gardens of East Anglia
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July in the garden
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The Chawton House Library Herb Garden
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Harvests in my colander in June into July
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Five great herb gardens to visit – Latest post for Richard Jackson’s Garden
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June is busting out all over… #mygardenrightnow
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What was I doing entering the Property Press Awards 2017?
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Shows and plants: Malvern in early May
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Roses for everyone
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