http://gardeningbloggers.com A community of Gardening professionals & Horticultural experts adding new blogs every single day Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:10:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After a lengthy absence I return to add a few suggestions for future pest control problems! The current harsh winter will certainly be helping reduce pest infestations when the spring and summer arrive, although that feels a long way off at the moment! However it will arrive eventually and there ... http://gardeningbloggers.com/blog/2010/01/the-natural-pest-control-consultant-not-in-hiberanation-yet-but-most-pests-are%e2%80%a6/ Today is my sister’s birthday. Happy Birthday Lee! As this means that November has almost ended, I am determined to get at least one blog written before December is upon us. Before getting all horticultural, I have a short story I would love to share with you…. My story begins some time after the Second ... http://gardeningbloggers.com/blog/2009/11/the-rural-gardener-future-prospects/ Working outdoors in gardens is often uplifting. Bird song, gentle breezes, the different textures, colours and scents of foliage and flowers, the satisfaction of creating something beautiful by the means of physical labour can be very rewarding. …Other times it is just wet! I was rained off today and have spent the day trying to catch ... http://gardeningbloggers.com/blog/2009/10/the-rural-gardener-rained-off/ Well, it’s official!  The much publicised BBQ Summer that was forecast earlier in the year, turned out to be  rather more of a traditional summer here in the UK…bringing a mixture of sunshine and showers which didn’t always come along at the correct intervals! Baking sunshine or drying winds one moment followed ... http://gardeningbloggers.com/blog/2009/09/the-rural-gardener-as-summer-ends/ My last blog featured willow in it’s living state, (as a gardener, I find that’s usually a pretty basic requirement in a plant!)  However, to ignore the possibilities which arise from the use of dried willow in a garden setting, would be only telling half the story!  A couple of years ago, my mum treated me to ... http://gardeningbloggers.com/blog/2009/09/the-rural-gardener-wonderful-willow%e2%80%a6part-2/ Having just spent a very enjoyable weekend on a course learning to make willow animal sculptures, (Please see Wonderful Willow Part 2!) this seems to be as good a time as any to explain why I am so fond of willow! Please click on the link below as usual, to see the photos ... http://gardeningbloggers.com/blog/2009/09/the-rural-gardener-wonderful-willow/ Hello again - I’m sorry for being away so long. It’s been a busy few weeks for us and the time has passed so quickly that the weeks have flown. My son Chris’s fledgling business making web “info-mercials” is going from strength to strength and one website (www.gardeningdirect.co.uk) is already ... http://gardeningbloggers.com/blog/2009/09/the-gardening-author-what-next/ Anybody reading my previous blogs, will perhaps remember me confessing to inadvertantly deleting the photos from some of the earlier posts! I have managed to find most of the missing pictures and have now ‘re illustrated ‘ a couple of blogs from the March archive. http://www.flickr.com/photos/julieparishruralgardener  When looking at photos taken over the course ... http://gardeningbloggers.com/blog/2009/08/the-rural-gardener-a-trip-down-memory-lane/ My youngest daughter has recently returned home after six months travelling with two close friends. They have had the most wonderful adventure which has taken them from Thailand through Malaysia, Australia  and New Zealand and then Chile, Argentina, Bolivia and Peru. It is so good to have her safely home, that as far as I am concerned, ... http://gardeningbloggers.com/blog/2009/08/the-rural-gardener-always-room-for-just-one-more/ The combination of warmth and moisture that July has offered so far, has provided exactly the type of weather to create the conditions I described in my last blog. In these, ‘growy’ conditions, the garden can quickly become tatty and overgrown without a little attention here and there. I have spent the last couple of weeks trying to keep ... http://gardeningbloggers.com/blog/2009/07/the-rural-gardener-order-amongst-the-chaos/