plants Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/plants/ Tales from a down-shifted family - Making the most of modest means in West Wales Sat, 04 Apr 2015 03:45:28 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-favicon-160x160.jpg plants Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/plants/ 32 32 2696646 Fusion Aquascape Planting https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/02/fusion-aquascape-planting/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/02/fusion-aquascape-planting/#comments Tue, 24 Feb 2015 13:49:12 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=18384 On our way home at the weekend, we popped into Aquajardin near Gloucester to get some plants for my new tank. they didn’t quite have what we wanted so we came away with less than expected. Just one little pot of 1-2- Grow Eleocharis sp. mini and 1 pot of 1-2-Grow Staurogyne repens, along with...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2010/09/chilli-time/feed/ 1 6017 Gardening Blues https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2009/05/gardening-blues/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2009/05/gardening-blues/#respond Fri, 29 May 2009 11:29:52 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=1632 I haven’t mentioned the garden for a while. It was looking lovely last year, but for various reasons that I won’t go into here (not yet anyway) it was destroyed over the winter. The Pergola was ripped down, most of the grass has gone and many plants were uprooted, squashed or otherwise met an untimely...

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