Wednesday, June 13th, 2012
I’ve had two of these Five Ways Fruit Farms crates for a few years now and never really done anything with them. But when I was at the garden centre a couple of weeks ago I picked up some Primulas in pots and decided that one of them would look good in one of the [...]
Monday, July 12th, 2010
Robert the Husband says that I like to colonize areas. By this he means that if there is a space I will fill it. Whether that be with junk that actually needs to be sorted properly and put away or with an idea. When creating a container garden in the space outside my back door [...]
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
I have decided not plant potatoes in any of the raised beds but instead to plant them in bags on the terrace. I am very lucky as I have a large garden but I have also lived in an apartment and a house with a small garden so I want to do something that those [...]
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
It’s very odd in the garden right now. There are flowers blooming that should have bloomed weeks ago. There are trees that are meant to be covered in flowers that haven’t even begun to get busy yet. There are bulbs flowering at the correct time but they look awfully odd next to the flowers that [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
