Garden Journal
Planting containers
The moment the sun comes out and I can feel its warmth on my face, I start potting up tubers and sowing seeds for my summer borders and containers. Of...
Planting containers
The moment the sun comes out and I can feel its warmth on my face, I start potting up tubers and sowing seeds for my summer borders and containers. Of...
Planting ideas for this year
Although there is not yet much colour in our gardens, greens can still be used to great effect. In the first of the photos above, tubs of green hellebores make...
Planting ideas for this year
Although there is not yet much colour in our gardens, greens can still be used to great effect. In the first of the photos above, tubs of green hellebores make...
My ‘must visit’ gardens from around the world
It’s been a long, cold, grey January but there are a few signs of awakening: even my late garden has snowdrops in flower and the little iris reticulata bulbs that...
My ‘must visit’ gardens from around the world
It’s been a long, cold, grey January but there are a few signs of awakening: even my late garden has snowdrops in flower and the little iris reticulata bulbs that...
5 of the best… perennials for low maintenance a...
After the warmest New Year’s Day since records began, winter is finally beginning to take hold and my view across the garden sparkles with frost crystals in the early morning...
5 of the best… perennials for low maintenance a...
After the warmest New Year’s Day since records began, winter is finally beginning to take hold and my view across the garden sparkles with frost crystals in the early morning...
January Garden Notes – emerging signs of life…
As soon as Christmas is behind us, I begin to look forward to Spring and start to search the garden for signs of emerging life. This morning, as I walked...
January Garden Notes – emerging signs of life…
As soon as Christmas is behind us, I begin to look forward to Spring and start to search the garden for signs of emerging life. This morning, as I walked...
5 of the best …. fruit trees
There’s nothing quite like the taste of fruit picked straight from the tree and with more of us looking for ways to reduce our carbon footprint, growing your own fruit...
5 of the best …. fruit trees
There’s nothing quite like the taste of fruit picked straight from the tree and with more of us looking for ways to reduce our carbon footprint, growing your own fruit...