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		<title>The Winter Gardener</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
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Many people think that as autumn slips coldly into winter, then us gardeners can rest on our laurels for a few months. That we put our gardens ‘to bed’, sharpen, oil and carefully stow away our tools and then spend the next few months buried under the duvet reading seed catalogues.
I’m sorry to disillusion all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smelling Edible</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
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I don’t know about you, but I still feel slightly rotund as the festive season slips back into it’s box of crackers and curls up with the tangle of fairy lights and tinsel.
It’s an excuse I know, as more often that not I feel slightly rotund anyway. It doesn’t help if bad weather keeps me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skipping November</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
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What happened to November? Did I inadvertently plant it with the Tulip bulbs? I’ve certainly put in enough of them this last month - Trenches of them, groups of them, pots and beds of them - I even have my very own bulb-planting-callous on my palm to prove it!
Or perhaps only having had one free [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All Talk and No Rain</title>
		<link>http://nickilewissmith.com/words/2011/10/all-talk-and-no-rain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
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I heard them long before I saw them. Through the first heavy mists of this autumn, where all I could see was the tower of St Laurence’s church, came the sound of a chattering bunch of loud women at a jumble sale.
It wasn’t of course, not at 7.30 in the morning - it was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honesty and The Devil</title>
		<link>http://nickilewissmith.com/words/2011/09/honesty-and-the-devil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
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The only thing that I want to hasten at this time of year is the Honesty seed pods. I don’t know why this plant is called Honesty, but I can see why it is called Lunaria annua&#8230;
Once the two outer seed cases have been peeled back, complete with seeds, left behind is the translucent, tissue-delicate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What if. Why. Wasps.</title>
		<link>http://nickilewissmith.com/words/2011/08/what-if-why-wasps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
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I was in my own garden the other weekend - pottering I think you might call it. I was lazily snipping away at some wayward ends of a Philadelphus that was encroaching on some wooded steps when I saw what I thought was a football lodged inside the shrub. But it wasn’t a football at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Verging on The Wild Side</title>
		<link>http://nickilewissmith.com/words/2011/07/verging-on-the-wild-side/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 10:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
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It’s July and already the first autumn bulb catalogue has plopped onto the door mat. I really don’t want to be a wet blanket on your barbecue, but the days really are getting shorter.
It’ll soon be time for the roadside verges to be mown. Local councils have been more aware in recent years and have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pen Ffordd</title>
		<link>http://nickilewissmith.com/words/2011/05/pen-ffordd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 20:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
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Frequently when I write my ‘Words’, I am in a favourite garden - more often than not, my own. Perhaps a falling petal or an uncurling fern will flicker that first sentence. Maybe a bee with pollen laden legs buzzing passed or just the touch of a breeze on my face.
The garden I sit in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watch out for Mrs Bumble Bee</title>
		<link>http://nickilewissmith.com/words/2011/04/watch-out-for-mrs-bumble-bee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 12:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
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I do love that just-about-to-open Tulip moment. To me, they are at their simplest and most elegant as well as being perfect to photograph.
Due to plunging into an early winter many of us didn’t get our Tulip bulbs into the ground until well into January. But it doesn’t appear to have set them back too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jumping Jack Weed Seeds</title>
		<link>http://nickilewissmith.com/words/2011/03/jumping-jack-weed-seeds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
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Earlier this month I crept into Wales undercover of an early Sunday morning. Splashes of daffodils were beginning to line the road sides taking over from the abundant floods of snowdrops we have had this year.
Little lambs bounced around on invisible springs and breathless shadows edged across the Black Mountains as the sun yawned in [...]]]></description>
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