Sunil's Garden

It’s around this time of year, later in June, that I start to loose control of the garden and it begins to descend into – what I call – somewhat […]

Before reading this post, it helps to know what the NGS is: “The National Garden Scheme gives visitors unique access to over 3,500 exceptional private gardens in England, Wales, Northern […]

Deciding to re-do an entire border one year before a potential NGS opening is not very sensible. Sensibilities are the first thing to go out the window when there is […]

The general theme over the last week or two is neatly encapsulated in this blog post’s title; that is, “be in a continual state of panic over the garden, the […]

I think it’s been another week or two and the garden jobs continue apace. I’ve moved on from the, “deal with this now or it’s gonna die”, through the, “shouldn’t […]

When I titled the last post, “Gardening on Ice” I didn’t mean for the blog to go “on ice” as well, yet here we are, over two months later with […]

Well it’s been a few months since the last post and as with most northern temperate gardens around this time of year, there hasn’t been much going on. A long […]

It’s all quiet in the garden. I haven’t done anything notable in it for weeks. The only major bit of work was the pre-winter pruning of the beech hedges; front […]

The weather has remained somewhat civil over the last few weeks yet I haven’t actually been doing much outside. We have had a moderately large bulb-planting session for the new […]