Re-Doing Fruit Avenue in Desperation
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 […]
PANIC! And Carry on Gardening
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 Canna Believe It!
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 […]
Going Potty
I lay awake at night, struggling to sleep. My mind is spinning at 100 miles an hour (or 160 kmph if you want metric). Garden jobs just keep going round […]
Snow and Sun in Summer Time
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 […]
Gardening on Ice
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 […]
All Quiet in the Garden
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 Pre-Winter Interlude
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 […]
Getting into a Maintenance Frame of Mind
After “The Great Planting” of the final border recently, I’ve been taking the foot off the pedal (just a little) and doing some tidy-up jobs – the type that you […]
Filling Paths and Planting Plants
Another week of mostly dry weather (there were some exceptions) has meant another week of somewhat intensive gardening – racing to get everything done before the season draws to a […]