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We had a lovely lunch with friends in the garden one sunny Sunday afternoon, and decided to have a plate garden competition. We used anything we could find – sweet peas, nasturtiums, hollyhocks, mint, lavender, curry plant, grass, ivy, virginia creeper, blueberries, stones, sticks  – even firelighters & foil! Hanna’s plate was beautiful, with blueberries [...]

Our bouquets now contain lavender & lemon mint, spearmint or garden mint. They smell wonderful!

A lady phoned a few days ago to ask what it was in her bouquet, and to tell us that she’sd been adding it to all her cooking during the week. She said everything tasted great. We identified it as lemon [...]

 I’ve been picking herbs & foliage from the garden to add to our bouquets this week – rosemary, curry plant, lemon mint, spearmint, garden mint, rosemary, myrtle, lauristina and lavender.

Having given up the allotment, I’m quite pleased with my herb & vegetable collection which I have in pots on the patio. The purple sprouting broccoli [...]