Day 52: new recruits

Daily details from the garden to bring you inspiration throughout the year

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I’m starting to take an inventory of the houseplants – what’s looking good, what’s looking less than happy after a gloomy winter being frazzled by the central heating. It comes as no surprise that while the Boston fern (Nephrolepis exaltata) is in fine fettle, the character referred to by my buddy Alice as ‘Princess Maidenhair’ (Adiantum capiluus-veneris) has, at long last, very definitely expired. And so, with the afternoon sun shining through the windows and spring repotting a few weeks off, I’ve been doing a little online shopping to swell the verdant ranks, always on the lookout for those plants that seem to get on with our particular brand of houseplant care. Though I have to confess to buying another Maidenhair fern – if that’s not a triumph of hope over experience, I don’t know what is.



Planty discount code

Checking out at the online plant emporium Patch, I was delighted to be offered a discount code to share. Just enter ‘Andrew Obrien’ when prompted in the checkout process for 15 per cent your first order over £50 (that order total doesn’t include the postage, I’ve discovered!). Or click here to enter your email address and be sent the code directly.


A year of garden coaching

To find out more about my my 12 month online garden coaching programme, please visit the website, where you can read more details and add your name to the waiting list to be the first to hear when enrolment opens up again for the spring.


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Hello! I’m Andrew, gardener, blogger, podcaster, and owner of a too-loud laugh, and I’m so pleased you’ve found your way to Gardens, weeds & words. You can read a more in-depth profile of me on the About page, or by clicking the image above.

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