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  1. Attract Butterflies To Your Garden | Higgledy Garden
    December 15, 2010 @ 6:40 pm

    […] Lavender. Everyone’s favorite and a big hit with the Butterflies too. Plant it in April and cut back flowers once they have gone over. A true English Lady of our gardens. […]

  2. Attracting Bees To Your Garden | Higgledy Garden
    November 22, 2010 @ 6:43 pm

    […] Lavender. The stripy little critters can’t get enough of lavender, they’re bonkers for it. Plant some and you will make friends with our insect friends and your garden will smell deliciously English. […]

  3. English Cut Flowers. Which One Is King? | Higgledy Garden
    November 12, 2010 @ 1:17 pm

    […] or texture? Does the romantic rose win over the cheerful Zinnia or the traditional values of the lavender or sweet […]

  4. Sarah
    November 11, 2010 @ 1:35 pm

    My favourite combination, in terms of smell, is lavender, rosemary and mint. And I’ve always said that I’d like these planted on my grave. But I think its beauty is strickty olfactory? The mint will spread to trespass on neighbours’ graves, the rosemary and lavender look too similiar to be eye catching. I’ll have to have cut flowers instead… What is the Higgledy fee for cut lavender, mint and rosemany (plus something to pretty it up) on my grave for eternity?

  5. Ben
    November 1, 2010 @ 7:20 pm

    Ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Aw bless their wrinkly socks!

  6. JW Blooms
    November 1, 2010 @ 5:55 pm

    Am very much liking “flapping her bingo wings”. When I was a kid, one particular aunt’s were at just the right height to give you a good thwack round the chops as they moved in for a hug. Ah, happy days. J