Favourite Flower Friday
Sedums At this time of year, sedums are a wonderful addition to my cottage garden. Their clumps of fleshy grey-green or dark red-brown leaves look good all year round, and in […]
Monthly Archives: October 2015
Eat your greens
Chard ‘Bright Lights’ I have grown chard for the first time this year. This variety looks so lovely in my veg bed, I can hardly bear to harvest it – […]
Favourite Flower Friday
Diascia Diascias are popular as colourful, floriferous and trouble-free bedding – I can see why. These ones in mum’s garden were bought from her local market in early spring and […]
Rake or blower?
Pictured above is my favourite tool of the moment. At this time of year I get a daily dose of leaves falling from the huge sycamore tree at the end of […]
Favourite Flower Friday
Geranium ‘Bill Wallis’ I first bought this hardy geranium from Stillingfleet Lodge Nursery in York many years ago. He has followed me everywhere since then like a faithful hound, hopping […]
Tomato Troubles
Why can’t I grow tomatoes from seed? I have a sunny greenhouse and all the time needed to sow the seeds, nurture seedlings and provide good watering and feeding regimes, […]
Favourite Flower Friday
Helianthus annus – Sunflower ‘Teddy Bear’. I grew these little beauties (just 18” tall) from Thompson & Morgan seeds in one of my veg beds last year. They looked lovely […]
Houseleek brick
I first saw this lovely idea on Gardeners’ World years ago, back in the days when Geoff Hamilton presented the programme. I’ve seen them in several gardens since, and wanted […]
Favourite Flower Friday
Eryngium giganteum ‘Miss Willmott’s Ghost’. This striking perennial has attractive grey-green foliage and looks lovely in my garden next to the bright green of my euphorbia. The plant is aptly named, for at dusk its […]
Snapdragon Jules 