It’s going to be a different kind of Chelsea Flower Show for me this year. As is tradition, I shall be there on opening day, but also for two days before. How come? Because […]
Category: Small Gardens
Ten Top Tips for Small, Shady Urban Gardens
Do you live in a town or city centre? Is your garden small, overlooked or in shadow for part of the day? Is digging your soil like cutting bricks or carrying out an archaeological dig? […]
Tulip Time At The Watch House
What a peculiar spring it’s been, and we are only two-thirds of the way through. March began with The Beast from the East and Storm Emma, followed by a second bout of snow and […]
Living in the Moment
The changing of the clocks makes an enormous difference to my enjoyment of the garden. Although the mornings have temporarily descended back into darkness, there is still light in the sky when I arrive […]
Down But Not Out
I’ll confess last week’s wind and snow damage got me down, not that I had a great deal of time to dwell on it. The last few days have been spent finalising my buying for […]
Counting the Cost
I’ve been out in the garden this morning assessing the havoc wreaked by The Beast from The East and Storm Emma. It is not a pretty picture, as you will see from the photographs […]
Daily Flower Candy: Polygala myrtifolia
Polygala myrtifolia: myrtle-leaf milkwort, September bush, Augustusbossie At the end of the summer I often buy plants to plug gaps in the garden, with no expectation that they will flower for more than six […]
