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July 27, 2016

My sunflowers mean summer is really here

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Hi, thanks for visiting the blog. I’m Nic – a garden and nature writer based in Hertfordshire. I’m also a peat-free gardener, keen birdwatcher, inveterate bookworm and mum to two budding growers. Join me as I follow my crops from plot to plate, explore new plants and share the wonder and beauty of the nature world…

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Nature Notes

Nature Notes August 4, 2020
The Barley Bird and the Comet. Out on the Marlborough Downs, there was a song I’d strained to hear at home. It remained a possibility there, a trace echo in the white noise of grasshoppers or the tinnitus of distant meadow pipits; but here, this funny little key farmland bird was real and singing, and … Continue reading Nature Notes
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Landlines: Nature Writing

The War and Margiad Evans – by Jim Pratt August 3, 2020
We are thrilled to publish on the Land Lines Blog today an essay by Jim Pratt, the nephew of Welsh borders novelist and nature writer Margiad Evans. The essay is focused on Margiad’s war-time correspondence with her brother Roger, who was imprisoned in a series of Prisoner of War camps in Germany and Poland, andContinue reading "The War and Margiad Evan […]
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Petri-fied August 5, 2020
Some seeds, some plastic dishes and some... jelly?
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Gardens, Weeds and Words

The Gardens, weeds & words podcast, Series 2 Episode 11 August 1, 2020
I’m joined on this episode by the powerhouse of the garden design world that is Ann-Marie Powell, who tells me how her gardens abide by the mantra Plants, People, Place, while I ponder over matters of gratitude, privilege and responsibility, and how they manifest in my own gardening practice.
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Mark’s Veg Plot

Successes and failures August 4, 2020
When I first started my blog I set out with the intention of showing my gardening exploits GOOD or BAD, and not shying away from admitting any failures. So, with that in mind, I admit a failure: this year my onions have been very poor.When I planted out 20 multi-sown clumps of onion seedlings on 16th March, I had high hopes, because I used this technique wit […]
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