Posts on Spring gardening
What is a garden for?
In my previous post “What is a garden for?” I suggested that a garden helps us live our lives outside of ourselves, physically and mentally. You can find that post here. My second idea is simple. My garden is for looking out onto like watching a slowly changing painting, changing during the day with movement
Useful garden plants – Six on Saturday 27-4-19
With the recent sunshine some of my more useful garden plants have gone quite mad and started spreading and growing and flowering. I love them and am very happy for them to go as mad as they like. Here they are: One Clematis Montana rubens, possibly the variety Elizabeth or similar which is useful to
London Cottage Garden in April
I’m sitting here in my London cottage garden enjoying the silence of the city today so here are six garden photos with no chat in between. London has been strangely quiet today – no one cutting the grass or having a party nearby. One of those rare magical days when
Six gardening lessons to learn 30-3-19
This week I look at what has worked well in the garden and what hasn’t worked so well so that hopefully I can rethink for next year. That’s the plan anyway.
Six signs of life in the garden on 26th Jan 2019
Here are Six Signs of Life in my garden and Chelsea Physic Garden this week. Six plants providing scent, colour, food for wildlife or bursting into bud ready for the Spring
Spring in my town cottage garden – 20-1-2019
Keeping my optimism up and my hope bubbling as I look in the garden for the small things that tell us nature is moving on all the time.
Cottage garden tulips
Here are 6 tulips that have done well this year despite the crazy weather. Sadly most are over now so I will buy more late season tulips for next year.
A friendly front garden
Whatever the size of your front garden or just your area around your front door, it’s so rewarding to make it as lovely and as welcoming as you can. It’s really worth making a friendly front garden for everyone to enjoy.
London cottage garden in February
Using Gardeners Guild to find a gardener, shrubs for screening, scented shrubs, pots full of grasses and more
What can Great Dixter inspire in my London Cottage Garden?
Lovely photos and some views and ideas from my visit to the world famous garden at Great Dixter in Kent.
Bee friendly plants – the top mail order choices from rosybee nursery
The mail order nursery rosybee.com sells only the best plants for bees and all arrive in great condition. Do check out her website for info and ordering.
Daffodils this Spring – my mistakes
This year my daffodils have been a big disappointment. I have always planted a mixture of early, mid and late daffodils every year I’ve been gardening and have always had a wonderful display of yellow, reds, pinks and whites from February to May. This year they have been hopeless. It looks like the varieties I
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