Monthly MUST do’s – August
There are many many wonderful blogs and articles and books about what to do by season and I reccomend you read one on a regular basis until you get into
Moving….
I’m one of those wanderlust folks who don’t stay too long in one place. Putting down roots for me is about a 5-7 years exercise though it has been less
The Collector (Nerd)
As well as being a Garden Designer I, like many others, am fairly fanatical about plants. So much so that a few years back I started collecting the apparently unpopular
ORCHIDS
I must admit to being the most terrible Orchid killer. I’ve been given several over the last few years and all have died except the last, a Cimbidium. Perhaps this
Seeds
It’s about that time of year when people who love their gardens and the process of growing start getting a bit antsy about the weather. Not being able to get
February and Hippeastrum
I am feeling slightly flat today having missed posting yesterday. ‘One a month’ was the original mantra, I missed Jan 2013 by a whisker of activity. Ho Hum, not going
2012 skids to a close
It’s been a roller coaster of a year 2012 though on the whole as many ups as downs. It started brilliantly well and sort of coasted in a bit from
Wisely Herbarium
Last Friday I was lucky enough to enter to rarified world of the RHS’s Wisely herbarium. A group organised by the British Iris Society we gathered for a talk by
TODOs May
Really?, Already? May? Time flies at this time of gardening year it all seems to come at once. I have been busy gardening for myself and for clients and I
TODOS April
Assailed by a never ending list of things todo I keep a master list for garden tasks in the kitchen, mostly scribbled on my latest Gardener’s World calendar but some