Vegetable Gardening Trials 2020
The weather’s been too bad recently to do much beyond checking on plants in the greenhouse and potting shed, topping . . .
Read more
more chat
Cheering Up Mondays #258
It feels as though some floral cheer is needed more than ever at the moment so here’s a blast of . . .
Read more
Review: The Garden by Toby Musgrave
Given that The Garden is essentially an encyclopaedia of horticultural terms, I didn’t expect to like it as much as . . .
Read more
Cheering Up Mondays #257
The first Cheering Up Mondays of 2021 and the first of this season’s hellebores to flower. It’s looking a little . . .
Read more
A Look Back at the Garden in 2020
Never have I been so glad to see the back of a year but I guess I’m not alone in . . .
Read more
Cheering Up Mondays #256
The last Cheering Up Mondays of 2020 and I’m dreaming of summer. And summer isn’t complete for me without sweet . . .
Read more
2020 Flower Advent Calendar #24
The final day of this year’s flower advent calendar and one of the most hopeful flowers in the garden. There’s . . .
Read more
2020 Flower Advent Calendar #23
Day 23 and a rose that does thrive in my sandy soil. It has the added bonus of tiny orange-red . . .
Read more
2020 Flower Advent Calendar #22
The elegance of an iris for Day 22 of the advent calendar. This is part of the National Collection of . . .
Read more
2020 Flower Advent Calendar #21
Who doesn’t love a tulip? They are certainly one of my favourite flowers. This was on HW Hyde & Son’s . . .
Read more