Grow Your Own Cup of Tea
Last year I attended a super workshop at Langdon led by Mandy Rickard called Weeds and Wildflowers. At the end of the morning we shared...
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- Jul 27
- 2 min
Flowers, frustrations and the art of patience in the garden
Gardener Gail Rowlands updates on how the flowers are reacting to the fluctuating summer weather, and the best types of flowers for pollinat
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- May 8
- 2 min
Grow Your Own...Cut Flowers
by Langdon gardener, Gail Last year in one of my bored moments I decided it would be a great idea to create a Cut Flower Border. Needless...
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- May 1
- 2 min
This week in the garden......
Tips and observations from Langdon gardener, Gail It’s amazing what a bit of sun and warmth can do to a garden. A couple of weeks ago I...
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- Apr 25
- 1 min
Follow the yellow brick road: A shady spring border
by Gail Rowlands (Langdon gardener) What do you do when one of your bosses decides to construct a beautiful path through a scrubby bit of...
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- Apr 24
- 2 min
Where have all the flowers gone?
Guest blog by Langdon gardener, Gail Rowlands If you are like me you are wondering if spring will ever actually arrive for more than a...
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- Nov 21, 2022
- 4 min
Dead wood - dead good for your garden
Why dead wood is a must in a wildlife friendly garden Dead wood is bountiful in the Langdon garden and we love it. We have learned and...
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- Jun 2, 2021
- 5 min
What on earth is ‘earthing up’?
As I greeted my emerging potato plants with glee a month or so ago, I wondered about the whole earthing up business. What’s it all for?...
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- Apr 26, 2021
- 3 min
Talking to Gail about her springtime woodland pathway
Early on a misty morning last week, I commandeered our brilliant gardener Gail and asked her all about one of her recent planting...
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- Apr 19, 2021
- 3 min
Wildflowers at Langdon
Just as I get excited by the fungi that turn up cheekily and uninvited during autumn (“Invitation? Whoever said we needed an invitation?”...
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- Feb 26, 2021
- 6 min
Springtime here we come!
Oh yes – this is VERY welcome. Warmer and finally, drier. Our boggy, saturated ground is at last getting a breather – and so are we. It’s...
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- Feb 3, 2021
- 3 min
Soggy Fragments
My post this week is going to reflect my lockdown winter days, where fragments of connection and small jobs in the garden have to be...
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- Jan 24, 2021
- 4 min
Willows and Wilding
A couple of months ago I noticed that some of the huge ‘weeds’ growing in the area we’ve nicknamed the Jungle weren’t dying back like the...
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- Dec 16, 2020
- 5 min
Getting along with rabbits and moles
We have lots of these burrowing furry fellows here at Langdon, and in the past week the two of them have had me thinking and keeping me...
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- Nov 24, 2020
- 4 min
Composting success and ‘No Dig’ beds
My very own home-made compost – PROUD! Last Friday I had such a brilliant afternoon. On a whim I decided it was time to empty out the...
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- Nov 18, 2020
- 4 min
New veggie plot
We’ve finally finished the raised beds we’ve been working on – they’re all filled with many barrow-loads of wonderful organic stuff,...
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- Oct 26, 2020
- 2 min
Leaf Mould
Last week I had my first go at making leaf mould. Well, when I say ‘making’, that’s a bit of a grand claim, because basically all I did...
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