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Well Elaine you did ask. There are three polytunnels - one I've largely dealt with, one contains plants I moved from my old garden. The third, and biggest, we haven't started on yet. This is half of it (a bit dark, but if you expand it
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I do like deadlines. There's nothing like a date that I can't change to make me get things done. The nursery opened this morning and looked as spick and span as a new made bed. All the pots weeded, the paths swept, shade netting pinned up
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I've posted a few pictures but there's no pattern to them. So I'm going to attempt to take you on a virtual tour of the garden as it is now, i.e. before I really start work on it. To save cluttering up this
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I took this picture standing on the newly re-felted roof of the sales hut. It's only from up here that you can see just how big the nursery is - and how much we've achieved since we took over. There are just a few plants left
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With the ride-on mower out of action and the lawn growing lush and long, the first cut of the year had to be done with the petrol rotary. OK, it's a big rotary, but the job has taken about 8 hours over three days, with just one stripe
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We had internet access for a whole day before we lost all power in today's high winds. Oh, the joy of rural living and overhead electricity cables. Still, here I am, finally connected and ready to post some pics for you. Before I do, can I just say
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We've made a new entrance - quite literally. The way in to the nursery used to be via a side path which took customers invitingly though a muddy run-off puddle in front of one of the polytunnels. The new entrance takes the shortest route from the car-park (well,
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We have moved in! The cottage, garden and nursery are finally ours (well, the bank's really). But despite the best endeavours of the former owners and ourselves, Internet access is off until the weekend. We're coping with the wireless equivalent of a dial up connection at
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My PC is being packed this morning. The weather station is coming down at the weekend. It's time for the 'Weekend Gardener' diary to close and make way for a new perspective on the horticultural world at http://www.lodgelanenursery.blogspot.com I'll come
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OK, so we did book a full pack service , but were still completely unprepared for the 6 man team of locusts which swept through the door this lunchtime and packed almost the entire house in an afternoon. Especially since we aren't actually moving until Friday. 'Sorry if
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Today we exchanged contracts on Lodge Lane Nursery in Dutton, Cheshire, along with a cottage, a 1 acre garden open to the public and a small but pretty stretch of meadow and woodland alongside the Trent and Mersey canal. We will own it by Thursday night and Monday morning will
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I can't stand sleet. Every other 'weather' has something going for it - even if it's only the entertainment value of gale force winds and torrential downpours. But sleet is pure misery. The semi-frozen sludge sticks to bare skin, seeps into gloves, up sleeves