Cheering Up Mondays #269
An unexpected joy for this week’s piece of floral cheer. This flowering currant suddenly appeared when some overlarge conifers were . . .
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Author: The Chatty Gardener
Review: the Niwaki Hori Hori
The Hori Hori is a Japanese gardening tool that seems to attract not mere admirers but disciples. So many gardeners . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #268
There are very few flowers that have true blue but this is one of them. These dainty blooms have just . . .
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Review: My Real Garden, the book and community
My Real Garden is a celebration of a community that came together during lockdown. I chatted to Ann-Marie Powell about . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #267
I love the slightly mad look of these daffodils – just the thing to brighten the start of another week. . . .
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Review: The Windowsill Gardener by Liz Marvin
For years before I had a house, I was a windowsill gardener, making do with houseplants and a few pots . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #266
One of this season’s new crocus for today’s bit of floral cheer. This is ‘Ruby Giant’ enjoying some brief sunshine . . .
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A Virtual Trip to the Garden Press Event
New products and a new gardening event – some of the things that caught my eye at the Garden Press . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #265
A throwback to the Malvern Plant and Garden Fair for this week’s flower. This rather lovely salvia was on the . . .
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My Gardening View #13
My gardening view is full of spring colour from the many bulbs I planted last autumn. It’s one of my . . .
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