Favourite Flower Friday
Christopher Lloyd, when asked what was his favourite flower, is widely reported to have said ‘the one I am looking at now’, and I know exactly what he meant. Looking around the […]
Monthly Archives: May 2015
Pulling the birds
Feeding birds in the garden gives the best return on spend of anything I have done here. For less than £10 a month I now have a garden full of […]
Pulmonarias
Pulmonarias are one of my favourite plants, but for their leaves, not flowers. At this time of year I’m cutting off stems one by one as they finish flowering, just […]
Stone Management
I’m supposed to be weeding so I don’t know why I have started sorting out stones. Husband Tom started me off – his dad used to ask him to do […]
Decorative mulches for pots
Mulching around plants in the garden is great for improving the soil and suppressing weeds – but I also like to cover bare soil in pots, to help them from drying out […]
Gardens past
We have had five gardens throughout our married life. The first of note was in Kingston where we lived for fifteen happy years. We were just a short walk from Richmond […]
Our garden
The garden is 80ft long x 40ft wide, and set on two distinct levels. We have a sunny patio area up top and steps down to a shadier ‘secret’ garden. When […]
27 Trees and Counting
Sometimes when I wake in the night, instead of counting sheep I recall the number of trees I have planted in my garden since moving here just over two years […]
Snapdragon Jules 