February Snow
February is typically the coldest month of the year in the UK and the beginning of this February was no different. It brought the first snow of Winter 2018/2019 and […]
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Winter Flowers
Winter isn’t the traditional time of year to have plants in flower, but we do and I can’t help but be rather smug over it. I’m still not sure whether […]
Winter Musings
The winter is a quiet time on the blog, but that doesn’t mean it is a quiet time in the garden. Gardening work shifts from reclaiming wild areas and creating […]
Buried Treasure
Keeping with the recent theme of gems, I recently caved and did a bulb order. A very large one. The largest one yet, in fact – and that’s remembering the […]
All Star Line-up
I must admit that the picture is rather underwhelming, three pots of dormant sticks and they’re the supposed gems of the garden? With most things garden-related however, it’s not the […]
Flowering Interlude
One of things I’m obsessed about in the garden is the continuity of flowering. It simply means there must be something in flower in the garden at any time of […]
Foot off the Pedal
For various reasons, it’s been quite a long time since I last wrote and I have a terrible confession to make: I’ve done very little in the garden since the […]
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 […]