Monday, May 20th, 2013
This past weekend Robert and I built a garden arch out of wood. Some of the wood we found here when we moved in and the rest Robert bought for a tenner from a chap who was selling it whilst also giving us a quote to chop back some of the huge trees that [...]
Friday, May 3rd, 2013
My favourite times in the garden are early morning and in the evening. But if I had to choose one it would be early morning, with a coffee, wandering around and making a list of garden jobs for the day. We have a three day weekend coming up so my list of things I’d [...]
Tuesday, March 26th, 2013
The other week I pulled the four raised beds out of retirement and set them up outside the back door. It seems the best place for them as they will be close to the kitchen and therefore closer to our mouths and tummies! It was sunny that day and when the sun was not [...]
Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
I need help. The rabbits are out of control. They’ve begun to burrow in flower beds that they ignored last year. And already they have just about taken up a lavender bush I’ve been growing for quite a while. They are making their way up the bark of every single one of my [...]
Monday, February 18th, 2013
This is how I’m imagining my garden right now. It was last Summer and I’d literally just heaved every plant and flower I had in to the ground in order to get them out of the pots they’d moved house in. Salvias, roses, primulas, verbena. All of it. It was an instant garden, yes, [...]
Tuesday, October 16th, 2012
I’ve started reading Peter Rabbit to the twins at nighttime. Nye has a cuddly Peter Rabbit and a Jemima Puddleduck (or as she calls her ‘Muddy Puddle Duck’) that she is carrying with her everywhere right now, thank you Cathy! And I really love seeing them with toys and books that I had as [...]
Wednesday, August 29th, 2012
Winner is Helen witchick@hotmail.com Her entry was – “Decisions, decisions! I have spent the last 2 years slowly reclaiming a patch of land at the bottom of the garden. It seems to have been a repository for rubbish since our 1930′s house was built, complete with rubble and lots and lots of glass and [...]
Thursday, July 26th, 2012
As you can see we inherited some Hollyhocks. And what fabulous specimens they are too! With all the rain and generally rubbish weather we’ve had up until now Robert and I have let the garden take a back seat. We’ve focused on getting the plants we arrived with out of the pots and trying to [...]
Tuesday, July 17th, 2012
There’s a rumour, just a rumour, that the weather in the UK this coming weekend will be warm and sunny with no rain. I don’t know whether this will turn out to be true or not but if it is, oh if it is, my family and I will be outside for the full forty [...]
Wednesday, June 27th, 2012
I love hydrangeas at this point. You know, the point when they are still quite small and green but there is a hint of soft colour coming through. I cut a few of them the other day and wanted to make a posy that didn’t flop over the top of the vase and out on [...]
