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 […]
Tag Archives: containers
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 […]
Tulip display
Last October I planted up a favourite pot with tulip ‘La Belle Epoque’, (thank you, Suttons), along with black hyacinths on the patio and then duly forgot about it.A few […]
The Year of the Clematis
Each gardening season I seem to find myself suddenly fixated on a plant type, and before I know it I have started to accumulate several of them. Last year it […]
Pretty and compact Honeysuckle
I received this Honeysuckle ‘Chic and Choc’ for review from Suttons earlier this year. Available by mail order, when mine arrived I was concerned that it looked a little small […]
Autumn display
Around this time of year I gather up whatever plants I have in containers and, along with any new additions, I make an arrangement that looks good from the living […]
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 […]
Stepping Out
I have more than enough wooden stepladders in my garden shed. Some are old, some new, they are of differing heights, and most are painted. All are used throughout the […]
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 […]
Favourite Flower Friday
I’m not usually a fan of bedding plants, but I ordered this striking Petunia Surfinia ‘Green Edge Pink’, as a pack of plug plants from Suttons 2015 catalogue in early […]
Snapdragon Jules 