Skirting the Urn
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 […]
Finishing the Willow Border
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 […]
Principle Planting Phase of the Penultimate Border Passed
I’m trying to fit as many “P”‘s in to the title as I can. I’m not sure why apart from it being a little fun. Anyway, it’s been a few […]
Queen of Night
There’s a plant I have, sat in the dining room that goes by some very evocative names, Reine de la Nuit, the Queen of Night, Night Blooming Cereus, Brahma Kamal, […]
Pine Pedicure
I was going to do a “spot the difference” but I couldn’t find the “before” picture. Naturally, I didn’t take one immediately before the change, but I know I took […]
Penultimate Border Prepared for Planting
Back in May this year I made a concerted effort to restore the large border under the large Goat Willow tree. It was essentially the “plan” or “mission statement” for […]
Smells Like Holiday
The patio is a lot of work, it’s a lot of maintenance, lifting, moving and arranging of pots, preparation, cleaning, monitoring, watering, mulching, feeding, de-pesting, planting, soil-mixing. It’s one of […]
Decanting the Compost Heap
I always thought we had the compost heap for years and years. Turns out – after hunting through old photos – that it was made around this time only three […]
Fences and Pathfinding
A few weeks ago we last left off with the penultimate border edged with some stone work, a new path laid and just waiting on the compost heap to be […]
Picture Snaps 2
I ducked out between rain showers recently to grab some pictures of the garden as it races and grows out of control before my eyes. We first start with the […]