Hi honeyandeggs - thanks for introducing your blog - I'm really enjoying discovering gardening blogs which are new to me at the moment and yours looks fab. I'm very envious of the chickens - I'd love to keep some - maybe in the future... My blog is www.dogwooddays.net and it's lovely to hear that Splandy and Kitty2 have enjoyed reading it - thanks I've been 'lurking' for a while but haven't had much time to comment as I've just started a Garden Design Diploma which is great, but which is taking loads of my time. But I really enjoyed the conversations on here last year, so I must make a resolution to start participating again
This afternoon I went to the allotment and picked the first flowers from our new cutting patch - early daffodils. The kids had a great time and the beds are nearly ready for planting new potatoes next week. If you'd like to take a peek at my garden, I did a post last week which was a mini-video tour of several parts of the garden (it's a pretty standard suburban garden - 13x9m) as part of #mygardenrightnow on Twitter documenting what gardens REALLY look like at the beginning of March!!
At the moment I'm writing about the Greenfingers Charity who create gardens in Children's Hospices, about their upcoming Re-Leaf Day to raise funds for more gardens to be built around the country. Blog post should be out later this evening. Looking forward to following your blog over the coming months and at the bottom of my blog page are links to 4 of my favourite gardening blogs and I'm just about to add a couple more if it helps
Hey Beaus mum, thanks for your encouraging feedback, you can follow my blog by signing up with your email address on the site and you'll get an email every time there's a new post, or you can follow on Instagram, twitter or facebook if you use those platforms. I usually post every Thursday morning before lunchtime. (Or at least I try to!)
Splandy, thanks so much for the recommendations, I'll have to check the app out though, sounds very interesting!
Hi dogwooddays, very envious of your Garden Design Diploma, I'd love to do one just not in the position to at the moment. Your blog is fantastic, very colourful and your writing is lovely to read. Saw the video too, also brilliant. I'm looking to incorporate video in my blog too, it's a great way to show people the nooks and crannies of the garden which can often be overlooked. Thanks for telling us all about the great Greenfingers Charity, the work it does is so important. Also, I hadn't heard of that hashtag *cue Twitter rabbit hole...*
Hi honeyandeggs - you should join the Facebook Garden Bloggers group - they're a lovely bunch, really supportive, fun and full of a mix of new and more experienced bloggers. I've found it very helpful.
Lol Honeyandeggs! I'm 42 so fortunately by now it's pretty 'in' for my age group - but by now I've rather got used to being weird!!
The article is really touching - another example of the regenerative powers of gardening. I've written in the past about how growing my own helped me deal with longterm fatigue and coeliac disease. It's really good that we're so much more aware now about how being outdoors and working with the soil can help with so many physical and emotional issues.
Hello! I'm following your post, for your blog and look forward to seeing what your writing. I'm also doing a blog (more for sustainability with Ikea and live Lagom, growing my own veg &fruit etc) and just learning about gardening in general etc. Also from Scotland!
Hey FlowerNewbie, thanks, it's a work in progress but it's good to meet a fellow Scot! Your blog sounds really interesting! What's it called? Do you have a link to it?
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Hi honeyandeggs - thanks for introducing your blog - I'm really enjoying discovering gardening blogs which are new to me at the moment and yours looks fab. I'm very envious of the chickens - I'd love to keep some - maybe in the future... My blog is www.dogwooddays.net and it's lovely to hear that Splandy and Kitty2 have enjoyed reading it - thanks
I've been 'lurking' for a while but haven't had much time to comment as I've just started a Garden Design Diploma which is great, but which is taking loads of my time. But I really enjoyed the conversations on here last year, so I must make a resolution to start participating again 
This afternoon I went to the allotment and picked the first flowers from our new cutting patch - early daffodils. The kids had a great time and the beds are nearly ready for planting new potatoes next week. If you'd like to take a peek at my garden, I did a post last week which was a mini-video tour of several parts of the garden (it's a pretty standard suburban garden - 13x9m) as part of #mygardenrightnow on Twitter documenting what gardens REALLY look like at the beginning of March!!
At the moment I'm writing about the Greenfingers Charity who create gardens in Children's Hospices, about their upcoming Re-Leaf Day to raise funds for more gardens to be built around the country. Blog post should be out later this evening. Looking forward to following your blog over the coming months and at the bottom of my blog page are links to 4 of my favourite gardening blogs and I'm just about to add a couple more if it helps
Hey Beaus mum, thanks for your encouraging feedback, you can follow my blog by signing up with your email address on the site and you'll get an email every time there's a new post, or you can follow on Instagram, twitter or facebook if you use those platforms. I usually post every Thursday morning before lunchtime. (Or at least I try to!)
Splandy, thanks so much for the recommendations, I'll have to check the app out though, sounds very interesting!
Hi dogwooddays, very envious of your Garden Design Diploma, I'd love to do one just not in the position to at the moment. Your blog is fantastic, very colourful and your writing is lovely to read. Saw the video too, also brilliant. I'm looking to incorporate video in my blog too, it's a great way to show people the nooks and crannies of the garden which can often be overlooked. Thanks for telling us all about the great Greenfingers Charity, the work it does is so important. Also, I hadn't heard of that hashtag *cue Twitter rabbit hole...*
Hi honeyandeggs - you should join the Facebook Garden Bloggers group - they're a lovely bunch, really supportive, fun and full of a mix of new and more experienced bloggers. I've found it very helpful.
I've just come across this piece: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/12/allan-jenkins-plot-29-gardening-is-my-therapy-extract-fostering Very moving.
Aster2 - what a beautiful article, you're right, it's very moving, what a difficult subject. He has a lovely way of writing.
Not to be touting The Guardian too much, but I came across this good read the other day: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gardening-blog/2017/mar/14/im-35-and-i-love-gardening-deal-with-it - I can kind of sympathise with the guy, but he thinks he has it bad - I'm 24. My friends think I'm really weird because I'm a keen gardener.
Lol Honeyandeggs! I'm 42 so fortunately by now it's pretty 'in' for my age group - but by now I've rather got used to being weird!!
The article is really touching - another example of the regenerative powers of gardening. I've written in the past about how growing my own helped me deal with longterm fatigue and coeliac disease. It's really good that we're so much more aware now about how being outdoors and working with the soil can help with so many physical and emotional issues.
Hello! I'm following your post, for your blog and look forward to seeing what your writing. I'm also doing a blog (more for sustainability with Ikea and live Lagom, growing my own veg &fruit etc) and just learning about gardening in general etc. Also from Scotland!
Hey FlowerNewbie, thanks, it's a work in progress but it's good to meet a fellow Scot!
Your blog sounds really interesting! What's it called? Do you have a link to it? 
I'm still updating it, ive only just started but once I have finished the layout etc I'll send the link ? your blogs great ?
I look forward to looking at all these
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