This is a thorny topic and one I find myself contemplating at least once a year. Ove the last decade of being a full time professional garden designer I have been asked at least once a year if not more, along with many other people I suspect, to design a garden or outside space for […]
I’m having a disappointingly quiet couple of design months, so to keep things motivating I am re-looking at newsletters and blog posts and GDPR (dull dull dull) and according to MailChimp, my email provider, there are 21 lovely people who follow or recieve the blog via email every time I post. REALLY?!
So lovely people […]
More than a little chuffed and excited with the grapevine this year. It’s 4 th year here and thus far a tiny bunch has appeared each of the previous 2 years. This year it’s COVERED in grapes. I’ve pruned back in Spring per @themontydon instructions, 2 bunches per vertical, 3 leaf intersections. But […]
I’m sure you know by now I love an Iris, especially a Bearded one in all it’s forms. It’s dividing time now and I am busy digging and dividing and composting old bits. I am reminded of how lovely they were this Spring did you see them on our […]
After making Sarah Raven’s wonderful soft set Apricot jam earlier in the year I have been playing about with the ‘soft set’ method on other jams. Our goosberry bushes have been over abundant this year so it seems like a good time to try it out on them.
Ingredients:
1kg Gooseberries – topped and […]
This is one of those books that looks pretty uninspiring and a ‘wade through’ read, on a first flip through the images are a bit ‘so what’, no instagram candy here and it all looks a bit dense.
DO NOT BE FOOLED!
It is in fact a ‘cannot put down once you start’ kind […]
Winter is not even over and Spring a longed for moment that is a good month and a half away but NOW is the time to plan those summer bulb plantings. The best time to get you orders in but the plants won’t go in until March/April.
We’ve included 5 of our favourites […]
In these dark winter days I find myself planning many things, sometimes gardens in their entirety mostly it’s planting or work schedules for the year to come but then there is the moment when the first signs of growth appear and you realise that seed sowing will soon be upon you. This week as the […]
It’s January the time for clearing out and cleaning down and generally getting ready for the seasons to come. I will admit our freezer has been rather bulging with excess produce this year so this weekend I took everything out and made preserves, LOTS and LOTS of preserves, Blackcurrant jam, Goosberry jam, Raspberry jam, Rhubarb […]
In September there is always a wild rush to plant while the soil is still warm enough for plants to get a start with settling in before winter but IN winter many are doing just that as they go into the ground as bare root plants. Roses from David Austin mostly come bare root […]
