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 […]
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Castle Park Physic Garden, Bristol
Reading time 6 minutes
As I alighted from the train at Bristol Temple Meads station on Saturday, I worked out that it had been 25 years since […]
Getting to Grips – Part 1
Reading time 8 minutes
For the last couple of days I have been getting to grips with our two gardens. Like time and tide, nature waits for no […]
Daily Flower Candy: Thymus pulegioides ‘Foxley’
Reading time 4 minutes
Thymus pulegioides: broad-leaved thyme, lemon thyme Variegation in plants is a trait I can take or leave. I blame spireas – a shrub I […]
A Year in the Vegetable Garden
Reading time 6 minutes
We would not describe ourselves as vegetable gardeners, at least not yet, but since we completed a project to build raised beds in our […]
Wildflowers of Cornwall
Reading time 4 minutes
Clockwise from top left: herb robert (Geranium robertianum); hart’s tongue fern (Asplenium scolopendrium); lesser celandine (Ranunculus ficaria); Alexanders / wild celery (Smyrnium olusatrum); common […]
Daily Flower Candy: Smyrnium olusatrum
Reading time 5 minutes
We have much to thank the Romans for – libraries, hot baths, straight roads, aqueducts and stinging nettles among them – but over time […]
Absolute Beginner
Reading time 6 minutes
I am a complete novice when it comes to growing fruit and vegetables. My last real experience was in my early teens when I […]
Making Arrangements
Reading time 1 minute
This Wednesday I was extended the great honour of arranging the flowers for Trevoole Farm’s NGS open day. I’m not sure what qualified me […]
Herterton House, Cambo, Northumberland
Reading time 8 minutes
To my great shame I have never visited Northumberland before, although I once pretend to for a school project on organic farming. Sorry Mrs […]