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Your Garden In July
With July comes the start of summer proper. All hints of spring – the tender green foliage, untidy daffodil leaves and fleeting, fragile blossom – are now gone, replaced by stronger, brighter colours...
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Catching Up
It has been an embarrassingly long time long since I posted an update on our garden and allotment. Fear not, everything is coming up roses. Like you, we’ve been adjusting to this crazy, post-pandemic...
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All Hail The Tromboncino!
I think it’s high time I got back to writing some shorter, spur-of-the-moment posts, so, here goes! You’ve all heard of courgettes aka zucchini, right? But how about tromboncino aka zucchetta? Perhaps...
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Your Garden In August
As I sit down to write this post I find that August surfaces mixed emotions. On one hand, our garden is coming into its own: there’s the thrill and anticipation of the summer holidays, the promise of...
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Surviving The Long, Hot Summer
Once again, dear friends, my attempts at posting more frequently have been thwarted: not this time by work, but by the sheer volume of watering we’ve had to do to keep the garden and allotment...
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Your Garden In September
I’ve come to love September almost as much as May. It’s a month of gentle transition, bidding farewell to summer and ushering in autumn. September is famously soft, rich and characterful, like a fine...
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Your Garden In October
October can be glorious or ghastly, depending on how the weather gods are feeling. I recall travelling to Delhi in October 2011 and the weather being hotter in Kent than in India – it was almost 30ºC...
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Your Garden In November
I must apologise for being a little quiet of late. I haven’t disappeared; I’ve simply been getting Dan Cooper Garden in good shape for the festive season. If you are hungry for more, you’ll find...
View ArticleGlad Tidings
As I take a break between cleaning the house, wrapping presents and mopping the water that’s dripping through the roof, I hear the lyrics ‘So this is Christmas, and what have you done?’ reverberating...
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You may have heard of the Chelsea Chop or the Hampton Hack, but have you been introduced to the Twixmas Tidy? I thought not! The Twixmas Tidy offers a valid excuse to venture outside when you’ve...
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A Walk On The Wild Side
Is there any day quite as awkward as a substitute Bank Holiday? Although these rare days ought to feel like a gift, there’s something peculiarly pointless and hollow about them: the event they’re...
View ArticleIntroducing Two Good Gardeners
I have been very quiet here lately, for which I apologise. Following a few subtle prompts, I thought I had better explain myself! Dan Cooper Garden has been taking up more and more of my time as I...
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