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  There is a mid-17th century adage that says “if you would be happy for a week take wife; if you would happy for a month kill a pig; but if you would be happy all your life plant a garden” and I couldn’t agree more. Having your own garden is delight, but having a garden in mid-May is a double trillion delight, for it’s full of promise and interest. My pleasure shows in my face, weather-worn and wind-beaten though it is, with laughter lines spread over it like a map. I recommend it to all potential hedonists for gardening isn’t all work!
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           <title>Double and single tulips are intoxicating</title>
           
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  The tulips are a little late this year, but worth the wait. Most of mine are randomly planted in oak half barrels, with blends that contain oranges, black and pinks. I have a mixture of April Triumphs and later May-flowering single lates, doubles and very ornate parrots. These should give me four weeks of sock-it-to you colour, if the weather behaves. I’m growing several that I adore and tend to reorder year after year, but others are new experiments. My regulars include ‘Cairo’ which is apparently the colour of burnished Saharan sand at sunset and sadly the nearest I will probably ever get to to the Sahara. ‘Cairo’ should flower in late-April in most years and it develops an almost metallic sheen as it ages. I am also growing ‘Orange Emperor’, a fresh vision of orange and green that flowers early on. This is quite perennial when planted in borders. Finally I always grow the very warm-orange single early called ‘Prinses Irene’ for its purple flaming because this highlights pinks and purples really well. I have added a similar parrot form, named ‘Irene Parrot’, and ‘Couleur Cardinal’, a shorter red. The latter produced ‘Prinses Irene’ as a sport, or genetic mutation. I am also entirely confident that my ‘Black Hero’, a double form of ‘Queen of the Night’, will do well with its sultry, artichoke-shaped flowers that last forever.
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           <title>Try a little orange</title>
           
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  The late and great Christopher Lloyd, of Great Dixter in East Sussex, used to say he wanted to make his garden exciting from the moment he left the front door.
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           <title>Good impressions</title>
           
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  Having been rained off in the garden for five weeks now I’m still getting out and about. A week or so ago I found myself in a steeply-sloped, south-facing garden on the Wiltshire side of The New
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           <description><![CDATA[  I have often written about the Best Beloved in The Oxford Times, but recently I have given him an outing or two in the pages of the Daily Telegraph too.]]></description>
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           <title>Bare-root benefits</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[  Last week was National Tree Week and we did our bit at Spring Cottage. We (and that’s the royal we) planted our new plum, a variety called ‘Heron’.]]></description>
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  Evergreens make winter bearable, and, if they are clipped, they can really add structure when so much is in decay.
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  The garden is beginning to wind down as the days shorten and the night-time temperatures drop.
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           <title>Menace to greens</title>
           
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  If it seems strange to be writing about winter vegetables in May, think again, for this is the time to plant cabbages, sprouts, purple sprouting and kale. You can either buy your plants now, or
  there’s still time to sow seeds if you get on with it straightaway. I’m a firm believer in growing winter ‘veg’ including leeks, parsnips, winter salads and winter brassicas, and this year I’m
  adding swedes too. Plants of Distinction have a new F1 hybrid called ‘Tyne’ swede (0844 856 0763/www.plantsofdistinction.co.uk).
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           <title>Rich man's delight</title>
           
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  Rich Victorians loved to amuse themselves and their house guests in their homes and gardens.
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           <description><![CDATA[VAL BOURNE on the virtues of a good
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           <title>The elusive Red Baron</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[VAL BOURNE on the disappearance of a favourite onion]]></description>
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           <title>To cut or not to cut?</title>
           
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           <title>Globe artichokes: summer feasting</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[VAL BOURNE on events for the new gardening season]]></description>
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           <title>Why not try some wine you don’t know</title>
           
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  I sometimes wonder how difficult it would be to do a weekly food shop that did not include anything I had bought before . . . Which is not to say that I will buy no bread or cheese or jam but
  rather to make a conscious effort to buy different types of all of those things.
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           <title>Muscari: Friend or foe?</title>
           
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           <title>Fabulous February in the garden</title>
           
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