I really, really hate it when the weekend weather is wet, cold and miserable and I can’t go outside and do something useful in the garden. Then, to rub salt …

While I was talking my weekly weekend walk around the garden (despairing at the mess), I spotted this little critter on a Cineraria. I actually spotted it a mile off …

It’s been very quiet on the gardening front. There’s nothing to do. It’s been very cold recently and the ground was frozen solid, the last place I wanted to be …

I have mentioned that I have a greenhouse of sorts every so often in these posts but haven’t said much about it. It isn’t a large, grand Victorian affair, it …

A few days ago I spent some time tidying up the front border in the front garden while the weather was mild. The hebes were trying to claim the pavement …

We have a tiny little azalea, about 15 cm high at best, tucked away in a sheltered and shady-ish spot underneath an established ornamental red-currant. It doesn’t really take any …

So today is the last day of 2011 and I think I spent it rather well. There was a trip around the local garden centre in the afternoon. I looked …

The main event is over but that doesn’t mean the excessive consumption is. It will take my brain a little bit longer before it figures out that it ought to …