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Please visit my new permanant blog The Italian Gardening Year to follow a year in the typical Italian garden with me. I look forward to seeing you there

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A TUSCAN GARDEN DIARY (from 20th Jan to 03 Feb) by Jonathan Radford
These are the dull months of the year and that’s just fine with most gardeners. However, when that dullness is coupled with cold winds and rain it begins to test even the gardener’s patience. And so, that’s how this week has been here [...]

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THE DULLEST, YET BUSIEST TIME OF THE ITALIAN GARDENING CALENDER
The Italian gardening calender is generally full of tasks that can be performed under blue skies and Mediterranean sunshine. However, towards the end of the year, a bitter wind from the north, named il trammontana blasts away all of the heat from the Italian summer and leaves the garden [...]

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