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26/3/2012

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The cries of many owls woke me at 4 am and I opened the bedroom window and let in the sounds and the chill air, then tucked back into my warm bed.

Early morning dew on daffodil Thalia in the new banner above, watching jays and a pair of red squirrels; what can beat breakfast in the garden on a beautiful spring morning?

Where do you garden now, and where did you garden as you were growing up? is today's question.

I garden now in a very small village in the mild temperate climate of the west coast of Scotland. I grew up without a garden, which may be why I love it so much...

I've gardened in different parts of Scotland, in Yorkshire and Oxfordshire in England, and in Cyprus. In city, town and country, on open moorland and by the sea - lots of gardens, lots of work, lots of fun.

And you?
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chris link
26/3/2012 02:37:56 am

Today I pruned the ancient hydrangeas in my front garden, which is sunny in the morning; I won't work there in the afternoon. I was stabbed in the leg by a fierce japonica which drew blood through close-woven trousers. But yesterday I saw a red squirrel in the woods not far from where you live, and sat on a mossy log listening to the birdsong. I'm not sure that I didn't prefer the latter! My gardening has always been done in town gardens - my current one is relatively wild as I don't spend much time on it; my first one was postage-stamp sized in front of our bay window in a red-sandstone tenement in the west end of Glasgow where we lived after we were married. I always remember having to break our two month holiday in Arran when I was a child - we'd moved from a top flat in Glasgow to a house with a garden when I was 10 and my parents were keen to keep it "in hand".

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Freda
26/3/2012 04:25:06 am

Two months in Arran! We used to have a month in Millport - wonderful!

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Lynne
26/3/2012 03:38:17 am

12 bags of rubbish filled from my garden so far and more to do. I can't seem to shift it from tidying up and burden to pleasure... perhaps I don't spend enough time out there. But the birdsong here is marvellous too. Green finches and pied wagtails are back.

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Freda
26/3/2012 04:26:06 am

The pleasure and joy are on their way - you have to believe me...

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Sarah link
26/3/2012 04:22:20 am

I have always had town gardens too apart from when my parents had an old estate walled garden for a few years and we grew grapes,figs and peaches.
Sarah

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Freda
26/3/2012 04:27:28 am

A walled garden is still a dream of mine...

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