Summer Container Workshop
I’ve added an extra date for this workshop on Summer garden pots and containers, Friday 6 May 2022. We’ll be concentrating on adding aromatics and edible flowers to your traditional […]
I’ve added an extra date for this workshop on Summer garden pots and containers, Friday 6 May 2022. We’ll be concentrating on adding aromatics and edible flowers to your traditional […]
April showers bring May flowers, or so the saying goes. If the past few days have been anything to go by May will be colourful. For me Easter marks the […]
With each passing day the light extends, the sun rises a minute earlier and life in the garden begins again. The birds are a plenty and returning to the bird […]
Where has the time gone? I’ve been remiss in my postings lately and am sorry that it’s been so long since I sent signs of gardening life. Things in my […]
My family will be so happy to see the back of April, the coldest in 20 years. You see my window sills, dining room floor and dining table are all […]
There is nothing more satisfying then planting a seed, nurturing it and enjoying what it brings you. If you’d like to learn more about growing flowers from seed join me […]
I have finally removed the twinkly lights from the box hedge at my front gate. The homemade Christmas wreath on the front door stood up to heavy rain, gales and […]
Well what can be said that has not already been said other than to say it’s been quite the year! Lockdowns brought garden centre closures, seed and soil shortages and […]
In collaboration with Marie Claude Holdener of Heure du Thé I will run two workshops on how to prepare beautiful outdoor pots and containers for your winter terrace. The workshop […]
It’s been quite the growing season, the long summer days have been hot and dry. The rain, when it arrived, fell in torrents, beating down the fragile flowers but never […]
The garden continues to be the constant in our lives. The beds need weeding, the lawn needs mowing, the seedlings need thinning, the climbing roses need tying in, the garden […]
Glorious blue sky days, warm sunshine, birds nesting and bees buzzing – an almost perfect spring to get busy in the garden. As all is not quite perfect we are […]
My most recent blog spoke of spring time openings of gardens and parks, lovely plant markets and fairs and all the jobs to get started with in the garden. Today […]
The garden has been snow-covered and frozen, water-logged and swampy and that’s just been in the past week! Hopefully now that we are well into March and quickly approaching spring […]