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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]