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By Posy Gentles January 10th, 2021

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Long dark evenings are the time to start planning your spring and summer garden, particularly when we are all in lockdown. I am offering online consultations which are proving rather…

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Opening My Garden

By Posy Gentles July 4th, 2015

  Last Sunday, I opened my garden, with thirty-two other gardens nearby, for Faversham Open Gardens. Andy Garland and Steve Bradley from Radio Kent's Sunday Gardening programme arrived at 10 o'clock…

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Stake and Support Now

By Posy Gentles May 6th, 2015

Imagine the satisfyingly stiff green shoots in your garden, which you are gloating over now, in a few months. Will there be a perfect climactic moment of gorgeous flowering before…

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Refashioning the Unfashionable

By Posy Gentles May 6th, 2015

Plants go in and out of fashion but the weight of scorn falls heaviest on those plants which march on through the decades, successful and healthy, in barely tended gardens.…

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A View from the Kitchen

By Posy Gentles May 5th, 2015

A tiny pot of iris reticulata plonked on a rickety green chair outside the kitchen window charms me while I eat my porridge in the bone-cracking cold of these January…

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