Raising the Stakes
This time of year I spend a lot of time supporting perennials and shrubs, especially necessary when they have been weighted down with rain as last week. I have a […]
This time of year I spend a lot of time supporting perennials and shrubs, especially necessary when they have been weighted down with rain as last week. I have a […]
Angelica gigas purple angelica I’ve wanted to grow this lovely umbellifer for years, and have had this particular plant in my garden for 18 months before it has finally produced […]
Sweet Pea Support I grow sweet peas from seed every year, sowing them on Mum’s birthday (16th October) and overwintering them in my unheated greenhouse. I usually end up with so many […]
Goat’s Rue This Galega officinalis, commonly known goat’s rue, thrives in my sandy soil. I bought it as a small plant from West Dean Gardens in their autumn sale last […]
This week I am visiting my sister in Cornwall along with my other sister. Cornish sis has a huge garden and is mad about wildlife. So much so, that at […]
When we lived on the Lizard peninsula, our garden was huge by comparison to those we’ve had before and since. Previous owners had kept most of it as a large […]
Hydrangea This wonderful shrub was one of the few established plants in our garden when we moved here. After a drastic prune in our first year it has repaid us […]
I have just done a quick inventory of all the buddlejas growing in my garden – shockingly I counted a total of 51 in a plot just 80x30ft and a […]
Hardy Geranium ‘Havana Blues’ This beautiful geranium is sprawling all over my borders at the moment. Courtesy of Hayloft Plants, the flowers are a luminous blue with striking deep purple […]
This is a picture of my veg garden yesterday. The raised beds are crammed with sweet corn, borage, chard, perpetual spinach, elephant garlic and sweet peas, with round courgettes, Florence fennel […]