Discovering Daffodils
Reading time 11 minutes
It’s a little known fact – so little known that one might almost call it a secret – that the first job I ever […]
Bulbs
Hurrah! the Ides of March
Reading time 7 minutes
Our garden is at its lowest ebb from early February until the Ides of March, on the 15th of the month. Battered by gales […]
Iris Reticulata ‘Pauline’
Reading time 7 minutes
In an exciting new development, the following post can now be enjoyed as a podcast as well as in text and photographs. Cultivars of […]
February Flowers
Reading time 8 minutes
It’s that time of year when galanthophiles (the polite name for snowdrop bores) start to bombard social media with images of their pearly-white treasures. […]
Going Potty
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If the pandemic has taught us one thing, it’s to look after our mental health. If it’s taught us another, it’s to look out […]
BITTERSWEET MEMORIES OF 2020
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The year 2020. Where to begin? It’s tempting to dive straight into the obvious negatives – and let’s face it that would be rich […]
planting ahead
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The first draft of this post began with a rather gloomy assessment of the year’s events. By the time I reached the third paragraph […]
Glut Instinct
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“Growing your own produce is great if you want no food, then 400 tomatoes, then nothing, then 120 cucumbers, then nothing, then 3 carrots that […]
Easter Extravaganza
Reading time 11 minutes
Oh the irony. For the last three years our National Gardens Scheme area organiser has been asking if we’d open the garden for a […]
Garden Diary: March 2020
Reading time 28 minutes
Who could have predicted that the Month of March would end as it did? Over the course of two weeks our daily routines changed […]
Plant Profile: Tulipa fosteriana ‘Zombie’
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Do you remember, several months ago, when we were all potting up our spring bulbs …. each and every one of us full of […]
Garden Diary: February 2020
Reading time 17 minutes
I have decided to start a garden diary. It’s been over 30 years since I last kept any form of journal so I can’t […]