Vive la France!
We are just back from visiting Paris – our favourite city was looking as wonderful as ever. The garden thrived in our absence, but the sweet peas needed cutting! They look […]
Tag Archives: decorative gardening
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 […]
Chelsea 2016 highlights
Yesterday was a good day. I was one of the lucky journalists invited to attend Chelsea Press Day. Apparently famous faces at the show are now valued above those providing expert […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 