Victoria's backyard

A subtropical suburban oasis in Wandsworth, south-west London designed to defy the depredations of global warming, garden pests and kids without recourse to carbon emissions, chemicals or cranial damage.

Monday, June 29, 2009

The legend of the pinging frogs

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I want to tell you a story. It’s called “The Legend of the Pinging Frogs”. I wrote about them for The Independent two years ago, but the i...

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Well, I'll be chiggered

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I'd heard about chiggers. I'd heard they were some kind of biting insect that likes to hang out in blackberry bushes and rough patch...

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Parakeets and phormiums

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Ring-necked parakeets are an increasingly common sight in London. They first bred in the wild in the 1970s, in Esher, Surrey, but since then...

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Trees in the breeze

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Despite the fact that I live in London, I've always lived in a house or flat where there are big trees nearby. This is easier than you m...

Thursday, June 11, 2009

My mother's garden: a before and after story

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You may remember that I went to give my mother a hand with her garden a couple of weeks ago. Well, she's finally come up with the before...

Monday, June 8, 2009

Pot luck

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Has anyone else noticed a huge lack of nice plant pots available? Of the inexpensive variety, I mean -not those Cretan things that cost hund...

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