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 […]
Autumn Light
It’s that time of the year when the season is coming to an end and the days are shortening, the sun doesn’t climb as high and the light takes on […]
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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 […]
Clematis
We have a lot of Clematis in the garden, it’s one of my favourite plants, specifically the large-flowered hybrids with spectacular dinner-plate sized blooms. The only trouble is that Clematis […]
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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 […]
Midsummer Musings
It’s mid-summer, with late summer creeping in and the garden has been baked with hot sunshine for the last several weeks. I declare the borders officially out of control, but […]
The Yellow Green Light
Goodness, has it been a whole month already!? Time really does fly, especially in the summer months when the days are long, hopefully warm and all free time is spent […]