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The wrap-up

April 25, 2010

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{Weekly wrap-up} Hot posts, stories and images from the web this week.

One thing that has been keeping me very busy over the past few weeks is the forthcoming Growing Urban Food that Seed Pantry and Fennel & Fern are running at Foyles bookshop in London in a few weeks’ time. Foyles asked for a workshop to help

We’re back!

April 18, 2010

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Phew. That was a bit horrible. We’ve been moving from a truly terrible website hosting company to a truly marvellous one. The marvellous man at ProWebsiteDesign has put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into fixing the broken back of this blog,bu

The wrap-up

March 28, 2010

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This week’s wrap-up is dedicated to the lovely Elspeth Thompson, who tragically died on Thursday. I didn’t know Elspeth very well, although she was incredibly supportive and kind to me when I was setting up this blog, and it was a joy to exchange ema

Image of the week and the wrap-up

March 7, 2010

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Image by Remy Erra. Before I begin the wrap-up this week, I’ve had a request from top garden photographer Rachel Warne. She is looking for gardens that are a bit lost and in need of restoration to photograph. They might be grand, or they might be tee

Image of the week and the wrap-up

February 28, 2010

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Image by bycolley Click here to visit the Fennel&Fern Flickr group and upload your own images {Weekly wrap-up} Hot posts, stories and images from the web this week. Susy at Chiot’s run has developed a fab way of organising her seeds. You can win

Image of the week by Emma Bond

February 8, 2010

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Click here to visit the Fennel&Fern Flickr group and upload your own images {Weekly wrap-up} Hot posts, stories and images from the web this week. The Guardian gives advice on growing potatoes, along with how to fight the dreaded late blight. Sou

Image of the week by Chris & Misti Little

February 1, 2010

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Click here to visit the Fennel&Fern Flickr group and upload your own images {Weekly wrap-up} Hot posts, stories and images from the web this week Stunning knitted vases on Design*Sponge Fabulous shrubs for winter interest from A Way to Garden Bea

Our new writers

January 13, 2010

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I’m incredibly excited to introduce three lovely shiny new members of the F&F team to you today. These three writers will be contributing monthly blogs on their passion for certain areas of gardening, and they are a fabulous bunch.

That’s it

December 31, 2009

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So. It’s the last day of 2009. I’ve had a pretty fabulous year. It has been fantastic gardening on my own plot rather than surreptitiously taking control of my parents’ garden. And for the first year on the vegetable patch, we’ve had a pretty satisfy

Fennel & Fern 2010 calendar

December 5, 2009

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Here, by popular demand, is the Fennel & Fern 2010 calendar. I’ve worked hard on this calendar. It’s partly because I wanted to make a trendy gardening calendar that I would be proud to hang in my kitchen or bathroom. There are no trugs, no potti