Gardening with Mum
A couple of times a month I used to pop down to my Mum’s on the other side of the South Downs to help out in her garden – my […]
Category Archives: Practical Gardening
Rocket Gardens
For those like me who have a vegetable garden but neither the time nor the room to grow hundreds of seeds, prick them out and nurture young plants properly until […]
Keeping Warm in Winter
It is too cold to venture out in my garden, other than to feed the birds. I’ve just done that, and on the way back I grabbed a few things […]
Mindful gardening
I read an excellent article by Julian Rollins in the Guardian this week. He described how he has ditched his garden power tools and now enjoys a peaceful ‘go-slow’ method […]
O Christmas tree
Now that Christmas is over for another year, I’m spending today taking down all the decorations, which includes carefully disrobing my lovely living Christmas tree and taking it outdoors. This […]
Favourite ‘f’ words
Not those! Mine are names of the makers of my most treasured gardening tools, Felco and Fiskars. Felco secateurs are legendary – incredibly efficient with a vast range for all strengths […]
Buddleia Julia?
As mentioned in a previous blog, two years ago I found an unusual buddleia that had grown from seed in one of my veg beds. It looks unlike any other […]
Saving Seeds
Like many fellow members of The Cottage Garden Society, at this time of year I’m busy sorting, packing and labelling seeds collected from my garden. I will send them to […]
Coleus display
Yesterday we visited West Dean gardens near Chichester, one of my favourite gardens and always a source of inspiration. I was captivated by this amazing display in one of their greenhouses […]
What to do in Winter – Plant Labels
I keep every label from all the plants that I buy. Pictorial garden centre labels, carefully handwritten ones from nurseries and even those jotted on cardboard from car boot sale […]
Snapdragon Jules 