In our London Cottage Garden what happens when……
……… You cut a massive decades-old white wisteria down to the ground because it was strangling the house and covering all the windows? Well, undeterred it puts on a surge of growth and creates a sprawling bush at ground level before climbing up the house again. Moral – if I don’t want something to grow
Tom Stuart-Smith’s new garden at Middleton Lodge Hotel Richmond, Yorkshire
Here are some photos from my recent visit to the new walled garden designed by Tom Stuart-Smith for Middleton Lodge Hotel near Richmond in Yorkshire.
Cottage garden survivors and sacrifices – Six on Saturday July 7th 2018
In this weather I’ve had to sacrifice the look of some plants to protect them and I have some plants that are surviving quite well. I’ll show you both. Re: watering, I give pots a gallon or two each every few days and I don’t water the rest of the garden. I’ve cut to the
Compromises in a town cottage garden – Six on Saturday June 23rd
Six small samples of having to accept things as they are when you have a small garden
Six on Saturday 10th March 2018
An exciting frog invasion, frogspawn, snowdrops, red berries and more
Six on Saturday 24th February 2018
Today’s Six on Saturday looks at the changes in my cottage garden after I’ve been away for a week in coldest Norway. As I write it’s snowing though……..
Six on Saturday 20th January
Tree planting, snowdrops showing, decaying leaves, scented shrubs compost and more.
Six on Saturday – January 6th
I spent today in the garden – here’s what I did. These stumps are what’s left of salvia Amistad which flowered 5ft high from June to Christmas. The snow and storms finished it off. I suppose I could sit and look at these sticks for 6 months and see if they burst into life next
Six delights on a Saturday
This baby robin kept me company the whole afternoon just inches from my hands as I gently worked in the border. Our cat slept on the car bonnet and ignored the birds (which luckily he always does.) Here I love the way the Virginia creeper is decorating the cat flap This trachelospermum has, without