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Monthly Archives: April 2012

Designing Your Garden : Part 2

In Last month’s issue, we looked at collecting all the information required to produce a scaled drawing of your garden. In this issue I will share with you some basic methods that will help you to turn the information you collected into a scaled plan of your garden. Before we put pen to paper, here […]

Spring Clean

That moment when the first spring flowers poke their heads above their soily parapet, signals winter’s end. Not that there’s anything wrong with Winter; it brings with it the desire for blankets, warm stews and a general mood of hibernation, but there’s something invigorating and renewing about the arrival of spring.   The origins of […]

More Welsh than the Welsh?

Lady Llanover’s family were English yet she campaigned tirelessly to preserve, protect and promote the culture and traditions of Wales. Helen Morgan from Abergavenny Local History Society reports   Lady Llanover, who lived 1802-1896, is probably best remembered for revitalising the Welsh national dress for women, fervently supporting the revival of the national eisteddfodau in […]

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