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, [...]
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 [...]
Thursday, June 21st, 2012
I think it’s safe to say that summer has gotten off to rather a slow start this year. But it’s still only June, we may have three months of glorious heat, sunshine and hazy days ahead of us so I’m not writing it off just yet. What this inclement weather has done is to make [...]
Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
Hello! The trouble with writing a homemaking blog is that you can sometimes be tempted not to show any makeovers until they are complete, perfect and established. But that would mean an awfully long time in between posts so I’m not going down that route. Instead I’m making a choice to show progress, in all [...]
Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
This giveaway has now ended – The winner is Beth, and her response is below. Beth, please email info@cherrymenlove.com with your address and I shall post the seeds out (assuming you’re in the EU) Beth says: May 8, 2012 at 1:34 pm My favourite tree is Cherry Blossom Tree…it reminds me of my childhood home, [...]
Friday, May 4th, 2012
This weekend is a long weekend for some of us. Here are some of the things we were meant to be doing, should be doing, would like to be doing…. Building a fence. We’re quite good at building fences as you can see here! Having a barbeque. Nope, not going to happen. I’m still in [...]
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
Hello! Welcome to my corner of the world in West Sussex. I have been here all week, apart from yesterday when I was up in London for a meeting. It’s great for me, as a mum, to don a summer dress, heels and make-up and stride through the streets of London in the sun occasionally. [...]
