A Walk On The Wild Side
Reading time 4 minutes
Is there any day quite as awkward as a substitute Bank Holiday? Although these rare days ought to feel like a gift, there’s something […]
Walks
A Change of Landscape
Reading time 11 minutes
I always imagined that if I were made redundant from my job there would be one hundred and one things I’d rather do than […]
A Stroll Around The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Reading time 14 minutes
Work brought me to Edinburgh this week. I could not pay a visit to one of my favourite cities in the world without a […]
A Windy Walk to Margate
Reading time 24 minutes
Having been incarcerated for the majority of last weekend I decided on Friday night that rather than catch a train over to Margate the […]
Winter Heliotrope: Petasites fragrans
Reading time 5 minutes
What better way to start the New Year at The Frustrated Gardener than with a plant that flowers through the darkest, coldest months. The […]
A Ramble Around Rosemoor
Reading time 10 minutes
Rosemoor, the most south-westerly RHS garden, is my favourite of all the RHS gardens. Opened officially in 1990, the society’s secluded Devon outpost is […]
Whatever the Weather
Reading time 8 minutes
The elements just keep on giving this year. In the space of three months we’ve had record cold and record […]
The Best Things in Life are Free
Reading time 5 minutes
I have largely avoided being drawn into snowdrop mania this year. I have no snowdrops in my garden (which is […]
My Favourite Walk: Chapel Porth Valley, St Agnes
Reading time 12 minutes
I have been walking down and up the valley to Chapel Porth for over forty years. Not continually, of course, but at […]