I’ve been somewhat out of the habit of writing during this winter season; with not much going on in the garden there hasn’t been a great deal to report. Seed and …

I’ve just had a brilliant thought on how to manage the garden and how to gradually work through from beginning to “end” without getting too overwhelmed by everything that needs …

I’ve never been a bedding fan and always turned my sophisticated nose up at gaudy displays of pansies and begonias planted en-mass in usually hideous patterns. However, with the six …

After a great burst of activity in the garden in the first half of the year, I’ve taken a bit of a self-imposed break from it since mid-summer. My mind went …

When we left our previous garden, one of the plants we managed to take with us was a honeysuckle. New to the (old) garden with about a season in the ground, Lonicera similis …

Several posts ago I wrote about how I quickly and rather cheaply added instant impact to the front garden by planting up six trugs with clematis and some bedding. As …

The semi-circular border in the front garden is coming along nicely. It’s been about four months since I first started work on it and one and a half months since …

It was a gorgeous sunny day and what better way to spend it than to pick a local garden centre and head down to see what was on offer. It …