Running to Stand Still
They’re not kidding when they say “Spring is one of the busiest times of year in the garden”. Goodness me, I haven’t felt so rushed, harried and hassled as I […]
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Scurrying After Spring
It’s been long time since I last wrote and the garden has spent most of that time being rained on. I spent most of that time waiting for the rain […]
Stop-Start Season
In the gap between completing the pergola assembly and starting on levelling the patio, I’ve been trying to get on with the winter clean-up. I know that ideally, the winter […]
Pergola Finally Finished*
Despite racing to complete, we weren’t able to finish the pergola before the end of 2020 because we ran out of Vaseline. That’s not a statement I ever thought I […]
Pergola Progress
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 […]
Patio, Pergola, Pandemic and Precipitation
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 […]
Patio Clearance 2020
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 […]
Autumn in the Garden
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 […]
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Starting the Main Border, Again
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 […]
Polishing and Blocky Bottoms
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 […]