A Guide to Festive Houseplants and Homemade Wreaths
The festive season is here and it’s time to get decorating indoors. To make your home special this year, we…
Dobies Gardening Quiz Answers
Here’s hoping you enjoyed a special Christmas and found time to complete the 2016 Dobies Gardening Quiz. Interested to know how well you…
Dobies Christmas Gardening Quiz
The Dobies Christmas Gardening Quiz is perfect for when there’s nothing on the TV and its too cold to go for a…
Hellebores Niger, The Christmas Rose
Hellebores must be one of the very best winter plants. With tough, evergreen leaves they simply shrug off frost and snow and…
Winter Wreaths – so simple to make
As promised in last week’s December e-newsletter, instructions follow for making some simple wreaths to decorate your home this festive…
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Progress in our ‘Dobies’ garden plots
We’ve gone from four inches of rain in two days to nights of heavy frost and freezing temperatures. But on…
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Christmas is Coming!
The excitement of Christmas in our household is always complicated by the earlier dilemma of “What shall we buy for…
Christmas: a time for giving – and receiving ….
As Christmas fast approaches, catalogues from numerous companies fly through the letterbox, extolling the virtues of products designed to encourage…
Getting to know your 2012 catalogue
Ever since I received my 2012 Dobies catalogue, I’ve been dipping in and out of it, marking the items I…