Reading time 13 minutes
This time next year we’ll probably be moaning about the cold and wet. Meanwhile it’s clear that UK gardens and gardeners are ill-equipped to cope with extended, hot summers. Here’s how we’ve coped in Broadstairs.
Reading time 9 minutes
It is official, we won’t go hungry this summer! Harvesting on the allotment has well and truly begun, especially the crop of courgettes, and […]
Reading time 9 minutes
I have been meaning to write an update on the allotment for a little while now. While reading the previous chapter, I am wondering […]
Reading time 9 minutes
I like bees, but I love bumblebees more. The sight of their comedically cumbersome bodies ambling across an umbel, or alighting delicately on a […]
Reading time 2 minutes
Dahlias come in all shapes and sizes. This is why, like other extensively hybridised flowers, dahlias are classified by flower type. There are waterlilies, […]
Reading time 3 minutes
It’s rare that I regret not buying a plant. This is because I scarcely ever resist temptation in the first place. ‘Buy it now, […]
Reading time 4 minutes
We are in the midst of a period known to gardeners and beekeepers as the June Gap. Both of our gardens have become a […]
Reading time 5 minutes
Travel agents report that the second week in January is the peak week for holiday bookings. This is hardly surprising given the short days, miserable […]
Reading time 4 minutes
I celebrated The Frustrated Gardener’s second birthday yesterday in one of the farthest corners of Poland, near the city of Wroclaw. The countryside in […]
Reading time 2 minutes
Forming a perfect, filigree sphere this is the flower head of Echinops ritro ‘White Globe’. I can’t recall why I omitted this work of […]
Reading time 1 minute
Whether it’s the sun, too much water or too much food I don’t know, but the garden in going nuts at the moment. The […]
Reading time 6 minutes
As is so often the case, the things that are on your own doorstep are the first to be overlooked. And so, somehow, we […]
Wordpress users click to subscribe here
Follow The Frustrated Gardener