Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
You can read Part 1 of my ‘Growing Dahlias’ saga by clicking on this link. I’ve never grown Dahlias before now and when I pulled the tuber from the box upon delivery I wasn’t sure that any of them would ever amount to anything more than a few shoots. How wrong I was. We’ve ‘lucked [...]
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
The promise of a new ranunculus. Waiting to unfurl and show off. This is the first time I have grown these flowers and I will be growing them each and every year from now on, until the end of my time! **************************************************** Join my Facebook page! Cherry Menlove Feel free to add me to your [...]
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
When Robert the Husband and I visited the local flower show / fair on our local village green last August I was mightily impressed with the Dahlias on display. So of course I couldn’t wait until March of this year rolled around so that I could get on with growing my own. It’s my first time [...]
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
Last Autumn I planted this bed with all sorts of bulbs – Daffs, Narcissus, Ranunculus and Hyacinths. I had previously had lettuces in there as it’s right outside the back door and it made it easier to pop out and pick some as tea time approached. About a month ago the bed was coming up [...]
Friday, April 30th, 2010
This was the view outside of my backdoor early this morning. We have many trays like this, dotted about the place, holding precious plants that will give us a flower filled Summer. Some flowers I am growing from seed and others I have purchased as tiny plug plants. This is a tray of plug plants. [...]
Friday, April 9th, 2010
This year has been so strange as everything in the garden is super late due to the prolonged cold spell. Well it feels like it is super late anyway. This is the circular bed in my front drive and last Summer, in the month of June, it looked like this….. Then last September, after all [...]
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
Although it’s March the temperatures are still well below the average for this time of year. This means that the Spring garden is probably going to be a little late in arriving. Has anyone noticed how the Snowdrops have only just really exploded on to the scene when they should have made more of an [...]
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
If you’re thinking about growing some of your own fruit and vegetables this year then now is the time to get your Broad Beans in to some trays or pots. Broad Beans look like this when they come out of the seed packet. Obviously you should follow their instructions but the easiest way of growing [...]
Monday, February 15th, 2010
A week ago this corner looked like this! But it was time for a change and time to bring Spring into the house with some flowers. With pink and green being one of my favourite colour combinations I found this corner easy to fix up. And with the Ranunculus and Tulips doing most of the [...]
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
The temperature has once again plummeted and I’m thinking about another log delivery for the fire. There we were basking in the relative warmth of 7 degrees over the weekend and now the frost is back over our windscreens. I’m thirty four years of age and should have known that the weather would not just [...]
