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‘Are you still gardening George?’
As I return to Uni, I can categorically say I’ve been living the ‘Uni life’, partying hard and getting up late, so a question I get asked a lot is, ‘are you still gardening George?’, the answer, yes, I am. … Continue reading
Autumn has come…..
Blink, and just like that I’m back at University after spending the past 4 months back in my hometown of Manchester. It’s been a great summer, but I have to say, I’m pretty chuffed to be back in Scotland. This … Continue reading
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Tagged gardening blog, George Hassall, RHS, RHS Ambassador, RHS Campaign for School Gardening
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All The Young Dudes
After a cracking Christmas spent in Manchester, I returned to Uni in mid-Jan. It’s been a few weeks of work hard, play hard; here’s what I’ve been up to…. Semester 2 This semester I’m studying 3 new modules.… Hoping the … Continue reading
Move on up!
Things have moved so quickly – I turned 18, went to Mull and then Uni all in the space of 4 weeks. I missed out on my first choice of Uni, (by one grade in Biology), but fate dealt me … Continue reading
What’s going on this spring?
Blink, we’re already 3 months in to 2023 and I planned to write a post about all the stuff I’ve got on this year, but here we are in March and I’ve totally neglected my blog! I’ve got plenty of … Continue reading
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Seasonal summary from my garden
It’s wet, miserable and cold here in Manchester today (not as cold as it should be though), so I thought I’d write a summary blog of how our garden’s flourished this year. Considering the extreme weather at times, the gardens’ … Continue reading
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Creating a garden for birds
I’ve wrote a lot about our wildlife garden, in relation to attracting moths, butterflies, bats, bees and dragonflies for example. Recently, I was asked to speak about what we’ve done to help garden birds, from food sources, shelter, places to … Continue reading
Notes from Grandma’s Gardening Diary – Part 3
This third blog from my Grandma brings us up to date on how her garden grows; starting with landscaping in April to a celebratory tea party in August ’21. Funny enough, I’ve been at Grandma’s this afternoon and despite making … Continue reading
Notes from Grandma’s Gardening Diary Part 2
Following on from last week’s post, this second blog, picks up mine and Grandma’s ‘gardening graft’ from Autumn ’20 through to late Winter ’21, with a quiet Christmas and another lockdown thrown into the mix.
Notes From Grandma’s Gardening Diary
If you follow me on my social media sites, you might know that I’ve been helping to redesign my Grandma Barbara’s Garden. Started back in July 2020, we’ve worked on it together at weekends and school/college holidays, whenever we could … Continue reading
Green Fingered George 