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 […]
Between a Path and a Rock Wall
The first rockery wall I built on the corner border had me single-handedly hauling the sizeable stone pieces from next-door’s garden across to mine (they wanted rid of it so […]
Picture Snaps
It’s another one of those “elsewhere in the garden” posts, with pictures and excerpts to explain them. We start off with a mix of cheery self-seeded lobelia in one of […]
Milestones
In the last few weeks, several milestones in the garden were passed. They have been years in the making, inter-linked with various dependencies that slowly unraveled like a ball of […]