Over Christmas and all during the limbo period between Christmas Day and New Year, we’ve been building the pergola. It’s consumed the daylight hours. There has been the odd “day …

It’s been longer than I expected since the last post and it feels like a lot has since happened, but also there’s not very much that has happened. I started …

It’s that time of the year again when the patio is cleared for winter. At the best of times this is a heavy job but this year was worse. Aside …

The clocks have changed for winter and while we get a little bit of light back in the mornings (that only lasts for a few weeks), the dark evenings are …

I’ve come up with the imaginative name of “Main Border” for the very final border in the garden, this might change but I recently came up with the name and …

Years ago, when we first moved into our house and inherited the garden, I couldn’t imagine how many miles long the list of outdoor work and jobs was to get …

The “Rectangle” grass area of the garden is formed by the straight border edges of Fruit Avenue, the Crescent and the large (not-yet-named) border on one side and the Landing …

The last several weeks in the garden have been physically exhausting. I’ve been spending almost all of my spare, fair-weather days working in it, finishing the Willow border, creating a …