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Dystopian Flower Festival.

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Everything in the garden is sunny or is it?

Our intrepid reporter found these poppies in prison. Find out where they are at the end.

The show garden you didn’t see on television.

The garden you never leave…

This is where the lonely poppies live. Our lovely Kings Park council nursery closed down by the council in 2024. It was on my walk home, I collected a few plants every week, school children came after school...

If you want to cheer yourself up why not visit another slightly bigger King’s Park..

Kings Park | Kings Park

Do you have a favourite place to buy plants?

No Mow May

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A tiny splash of pink before we go totally green.

What gardens looked like in the Jurassic period.

No Mow May is here again and let’s see who can grow the tallest blade of grass.

Have you rewilded your garden or do you have an artificial lawn?

Follow the Flowers

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Minimalist Mimulus Garden at Not The Chelsea Flower Show – winner of tin medal.

Recycled Garden – winner of plastic medal in The Other Chelsea Flower Show – how many recycled objects can you spot?

Answers at the end of the show, the week or the world, whichever comes first.

When the flower show opens and you are not ready. Last in the ‘Abandoned Corner’ section.

More flowers tomorrow. How many recycled items did you find?

Flower Power

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To celebrate Chelsea Flower Show week I will post garden pictures every day, to save me bothering to write any blogs while I am busy enviously watching the show every evening on television.

Window or Mirror?

Even my beach hut has a garden?

A look back… I got a bit carried away during Covid lockdown when I discovered the local garden centre was doing deliveries, but you had to order a minimum amount… Visitors could only chat in the front garden.

Will you be watching Chelsea? Does your garden match up to the ones at flower shows?

Tuesday Trail – Down the Road.

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This is a genuine walk, get off the bus, down towards the sea, turn right and walk all the way down the road. On the way can you spot one of the venues for the Bournemouth Writing Festival and the burial place of Mary Shelley? I did have fun photographing everything I saw.

Here is my bus on the worst road surface ever, a real bone shaker stretch.

You may need a drink after that walk.

Read about the writing festival in my next blog.

Did you enjoy your walk?

Silly Saturday – No News?

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If you have been wondering what did happen to the missing capybara, she is still on the run. This unauthorised picture shows a capybara family who are not related and live at a different wildlife park, but you will know what you are looking for if you do spot her.

‘Samba arrived at Marwell Zoo in Winchester from Jimmy’s Farm and Wildlife Park near Ipswich on March 16, 2026, alongside her sister Tango. The following day, both capybaras escaped from a temporary enclosure. Tango was quickly recovered, but Samba has evaded capture ever since, demonstrating remarkable ability to avoid detection

Samba has been spotted multiple times along the River Itchen and nearby villages such as Owslebury,  Allbrook,  Brambridge  and Twyford. Locals have reported seeing her sunbathing, swimming, and moving along waterways. ‘

Not lost, but found was a genuine axolotl . It is only found in South America, but somehow ended up under a bridge in Wales and was found by a ten year old girl who loves wildlife. Picture may not be accurate representation of the rescued axolotl.

When you suspect that the environmentally friendly GREEN car you were sold may have been a scam.

Be careful when buying your dream home.

When your friend recommends a good plasterer.

When you buy microwaveable bowls on the internet

Have you found any amazing wildlife lately?

Have you made any unwise purchases lately?

Saturday Stroll – Sea Scenes

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If you have been here before you should guess where we are. A clue is my favourite house and I can always pretend I live here on a sunny day.

Who would not like a home with sea views?

Time to go inside

Step inside the poster…

Wander upstairs

Protective blinds mute the views, but add an artistic aspect perhaps?

Wandering around someone else’s house you never know who you are going to meet.

If you are still here tomorrow we can pop into the gallery and see the new exhibition. Here are a couple of clues.

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