Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

How To Line A Hanging Basket & Playing With Ornamental Cabbages
Aha!
Many of you may find yourself in the same predicament that I did about a week ago. Summer is over and the baskets that held the annuals and bedding plants so well are now empty and a little tatty.
Case in point.
So instead of emptying them and leaving them dormant [...]
Posted in Container Gardening, How to Grow ..., The Autumn Garden, The Potting Shed
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Making an Entrance
Any gate that allows you to have a peek through to the other side without truly revealing what actually lays beyond the threshold is interesting to me.
I wished I had lived here at this house when I was growing up. My imagination was already fully developed and very much in to having adventures [...]
Posted in Container Gardening, The Potting Shed
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Welcome to my Potting Shed, on this rather sunny Wednesday morning in April.
Daisies Out Front
The front of our house had been looking a little miserable. It had taken a battering over the winter and was looking so dull and dreary. It needed colour, brightness and sunny faces.
Enter my hand-painted plant pots and copious amounts of Chrysanthemums and [...]
Posted in Container Gardening, Plants & Flowers, The Potting Shed, The Spring Garden
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

It’s Wednesday, so I’m coming to you from the garden!
Growing a Salad Container Garden with a Tuscan Influence
I have a love of Italy deep in my heart and like to recreate the feeling I have when I’m there as often as possible at home in England. I love the atmosphere in the streets and towns and [...]
Posted in Container Gardening, The Potting Shed