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 – […]
Category Archives: Sunday Story
Sunday story
Introducing Annie I thought it was about time I shared this picture of my next-door neighbour’s cat. Annie is a posh cat. She swans around my garden as if she […]
Saving seeds
At this time of year I save seeds from as many plants as I can in my garden, keeping those from unusual and interesting plants for The Cottage Garden Society’s annual […]
Lovely pot
I bought this beautiful little hand-painted clay pot at a plant sale many years ago. It is just 3 inches tall and decorated all the way round, but although varnished […]
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 […]
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 […]
Garden Visiting
Last week I went away for a few days and as always my trip included garden visiting. We called in on fellow Cottage Garden Society member Rachel Helfer’s garden in […]
Saxifraga stolonifera, the strawberry saxifrage
This unassuming little plant still causes me to blush when I see it… all over my garden. Years ago when I was an even less knowledgeable gardener than I am […]
Mum and Dad’s bench
I bought this little garden seat in Arundel many years ago, and Dad liked it so much I gave it him to sit on in his garden, next to the […]
Tom’s Trowel
I have a shed full of garden tools to photograph. Trowels and garden forks in every shape and size imaginable. Hoes of every hue, and as for watering cans – […]
Snapdragon Jules 