From Coastline to Compost Bin – Using Seaweed As A Garden Fertiliser and Soil Improver
Reading time 16 minutes
I may be a composting virgin, but now that I have an allotment I am getting serious about the dark art of decay. Since […]
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Daily Flower Candy: Crithmum maritimum
Reading time 5 minutes
Crithmum maritimum: rock samphire, sea fennel, sea asparagus, sea bean, sea pickle, crest marine “There is a cliff whose high and bending head looks […]
Daily Flower Candy: Clematis vitalba
Reading time 4 minutes
Clematis vitalba: Old man’s beard, traveller’s joy, virgin’s bower, ladies’ bower, love vine, traveller’s ivy. When the feathery seed heads of Clematis vitalba start […]
Between the Storms
Reading time 3 minutes
To call this winter a wash-out would be something of an understatement. Parts of the country have experienced double the average amount of rainfall […]
Hangers-On
Reading time 2 minutes
It’s midweek and already my brain has turned to blancmange. So for everyone’s sake, I’ll keep today’s post simple. Living by the seaside, we […]
The Pines Garden, St Margaret’s at Cliffe
Reading time 6 minutes
At long last the weekend offered some semi-decent weather, so off we set down the East Kent coast to the well-to-do village of St […]
Good Earth
Reading time 5 minutes
‘No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth … and no culture comparable to that of the garden … […]
Longstock Park Water Garden, Hampshire
Reading time 9 minutes
The River Test in Hampshire is one of the world’s finest chalk streams, renowned for the quality of its dry fly fishing. I am […]