Words and Things in Gardens.
A penny dropping. I’m not sure why I originally wanted to make a garden. I started with a need to grow things, which grew and grew until I needed to [...]
A penny dropping. I’m not sure why I originally wanted to make a garden. I started with a need to grow things, which grew and grew until I needed to [...]
This is the time of year to enjoy the back of your flowers. Partly because they are very low down at the moment. It was years before I realised [...]
I'm just the wrong sort of person. I recently came across this quote. Someone was doing one of those ‘aren’t we all wonderful, us gardeners?’ thing: “A garden is a [...]
To Label or Not to Label? There are some of us who aspire to put plants together in a considered and beautiful setting in such a way that they offer [...]
Copyright Infringement!! The other day I was wondering if readers in America could obtain my books, if they were deluded enough to wish to. I checked on Amazon. I know [...]
Still being nagged by those garden writers. I wasn’t going to do this again. I thought that there can’t be many things we’d be told to do in February that [...]
The great Gertrude Jekyll famously and rightly said: "The possession of a quantity of plants, however good the plants may be themselves and however ample their number, does not make [...]
It is winter now. Not yet snowy, though. When I go out in the garden with my camera I find that there are several photographs that I take, [...]
Marianne recently posted about under used plants . and in the comments I responded with "I’m possibly the only person on this planet who thinks that it’s what you do [...]
We probably all love hellebores, but some people seem to like them leafy and some people like them naked. And sometimes the plants themselves seem to come kind of in-between. [...]
January is a great time for me – I ignore the garden and stay indoors by the fire as much as possible. I love indoors. With a good book. [...]