Gardening Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/gardening/ Tales from a down-shifted family - Making the most of modest means in West Wales Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:41:36 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-favicon-160x160.jpg Gardening Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/gardening/ 32 32 2696646 Because Why Wouldn’t You Add Off-Road Mods to a Robot Mower? https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2025/12/because-why-wouldnt-you-add-off-road-mods-to-a-robot-mower/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2025/12/because-why-wouldnt-you-add-off-road-mods-to-a-robot-mower/#comments Sat, 13 Dec 2025 13:39:09 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=47522 Our robot lawn mowers might be in winter hibernation mode, but the off-season is the perfect time for… upgrades. On a recent trip to Bristol, my Dad deployed his 3D printer (aka the family’s unofficial R&D department) to produce a pair of traction rings for the wheels on our Mammotion Yuka Mini. Now, the stock...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2025/12/because-why-wouldnt-you-add-off-road-mods-to-a-robot-mower/feed/ 1 47522 Pain in the Grass: Time for a New Robot Mower? https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2025/08/pain-in-the-grass-time-for-a-new-robot-mower/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2025/08/pain-in-the-grass-time-for-a-new-robot-mower/#comments Wed, 06 Aug 2025 07:59:00 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=46415 Going All-In on Robot Mowers (Again) You may remember that we went all in on robots during the Covid lockdown, adding robot mowers to our collection of robot vacuum cleaners. Since then, Hector (who mows the back garden) and Harriet (in the front) have done a great job. It started as a fun lockdown project...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2025/08/pain-in-the-grass-time-for-a-new-robot-mower/feed/ 2 46415 A Weekend for Woodlands – Planting Trees https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2023/02/a-weekend-for-woodlands-planting-trees/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2023/02/a-weekend-for-woodlands-planting-trees/#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2023 08:22:21 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=38742 Much of the weekend was spent creating what will hopefully become a little woodland thanks to a whole load of free trees. Well, it’ll be more of an unruly hedge than a woodland if we’re honest. Free Trees Thanks to the Make Room for Nature scheme run by the Woodlands Trust Cymru we had 40...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2023/02/a-weekend-for-woodlands-planting-trees/feed/ 2 38742 Springing into Action https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2022/04/springing-into-action/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2022/04/springing-into-action/#respond Tue, 12 Apr 2022 05:17:00 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=37395 Another quiet weekend here for us. We had some good days on the ‘solars’ though thanks to the blue skies and cool temperatures. There was barely any import from the grid. Just a little here and there for things like showers because that draws too much power for our inverter. Otherwise we were using solar...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2022/04/springing-into-action/feed/ 0 37395 Garden Updates https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2021/05/garden-updates-3/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2021/05/garden-updates-3/#respond Mon, 17 May 2021 14:56:50 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=36361 With a nice spell of sunshine this afternoon I thought it was time for a garden update. It’s looking nice out there and going through its annual purple phase at the moment. Bluebells, Aquilegias, Geraniums, Forget-me-Knots and a few other things have replaced the yellows of early Spring with a selections of blues and purples....

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2021/05/garden-updates-3/feed/ 0 36361 What a Weekend https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2021/04/what-a-weekend-2/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2021/04/what-a-weekend-2/#comments Sun, 25 Apr 2021 15:15:54 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=36110 What a weekend that was! Evidenced in some part by the number of changes of outfit I had. I was up early and into shorts and T-shirt on Saturday morning. After coffee, breakfast and some playing of games on my phone the wind started to fill in so it was time to head to the...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2021/04/a-new-front-garden/feed/ 1 36004 The perfect habitat for a robot lawn mower https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2021/02/the-perfect-habitat-for-a-robot-lawn-mower/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2021/02/the-perfect-habitat-for-a-robot-lawn-mower/#comments Sat, 27 Feb 2021 07:39:04 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=35840 Robots, they are all the rage in our house at the moment. We were a little dubious about how well they would work but the robot vacuum cleaner that we have has been a revelation. It may not be as powerful as an all singing all dancing upright vacuum cleaner, but that fact that it...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2021/02/the-perfect-habitat-for-a-robot-lawn-mower/feed/ 3 35840 A Weekend in the Garden https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2020/03/a-weekend-in-the-garden-2/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2020/03/a-weekend-in-the-garden-2/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2020 08:13:29 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=32950 With the Coronavirus lockdown in full effect, time outside has been limited. Actually, that’s not entirely true as we are allowed out into our gardens. Time off the premises however is limited to once a day for exercise, or for trips to the shop for essentials. I’ve been getting out for my daily exercise of...

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