The Landing Pad – Part 3
For some reason, making the Landing Pad and the surrounding borders seemed to be a real slog at times. It’s taken just over a year to get to the “ready […]
The Landing Pad Border – Part 2
At the very end of the last season, the Landing Pad was finished, in the sense that there was a circular area with bark chips in which to sit. The […]
The Landing Pad Border – Part 1
The border around the Landing Pad looks like the same as the other borders in the garden, but it has come about a very different way. It was the first […]
Midsummer Musings
It’s mid-summer, with late summer creeping in and the garden has been baked with hot sunshine for the last several weeks. I declare the borders officially out of control, but […]
The Yellow Green Light
Goodness, has it been a whole month already!? Time really does fly, especially in the summer months when the days are long, hopefully warm and all free time is spent […]
Impossible Chelsea
In a double whammy of gardening gloriousness, I went to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show for the first time. It was an incredible, exhausting, overwhelming, heaving, wonderful day. Thankfully I […]
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Keukenhof Tulip Garden
There is a garden in the Netherlands, just outside the little town of Lisse. It opens for just two months of the year in the spring and in this short […]
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Three Strikes and Out
Weather-wise, we’ve had a terrible start to the gardening season for 2018. Winter long outstayed its welcome and in fact returned several times to make sure we wouldn’t forget it. […]
While the Cat’s Away
I’ve recently returned from a week’s holiday. It was the week where the UK went from 5°C to 25°C in the space of a few days. It remained very hot […]
Only Five Minutes
So you’ve just seen this come up, why don’t you take a quick read? It’ll only take you five minutes. The Banksiae rose needs pulling out of the eaves again, […]