Favourite Garden Books
I confess that for a garden journalist I am often ambivalent about garden books. They have to be either practical and informative or totally inspirational to justify a permanent place in my […]
Category Archives: Sunday Snaps
Pumpkins, gourds and squashes
In Autumn my kitchen and greenhouse shelves are packed with a variety of cucurbits. Some are grown in my own garden, others purchased in October at the annual pumpkin festival […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sunday Snap
I enjoy making decorative scarecrows to put in in my veg plot – sometimes to photograph, but often just for fun. This was my first attempt, made back in my Kingston […]
Snapdragon Jules 