The Frustrated Gardener

The life and loves of a time-poor plantsman

A Potting Shed Christmas

November 21, 2017.Reading time 6 minutes.

If you’ve not put two and two together yet, I’ll let you into a little secret: when I am not writing this blog and working in my garden, you’ll find me buying Christmas decorations, food and hampers for a well-known department store. At work they call me Mr Christmas rather than The Frustrated Gardener. […]

Longstock Park Water Garden, Hampshire

June 10, 2013.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 no angler, but it doesn’t take an expert to see that the water is as fresh and clear as anything that ever came out of a tap – probably cleaner too. […]