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 […]
Monthly Archives: August 2015
Favourite Flower Friday
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 […]
Sunday Snap
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 […]
Favourite Flower Friday
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 […]
Way Out West
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 […]
Mini meadows
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 […]
Favourite Flower Friday
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 […]
Buddleja Madness
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 […]
Favourite Flower Friday
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 […]
Sunday snaps
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 […]
Snapdragon Jules 