One view, four seasons.
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, [...]
How Do You Use Your Plants? Anne & Marianne Discuss.
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 [...]
Hellebores – to leave or unleaf?
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. [...]
What NOT to do in your Garden in January
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. [...]
Is Over Gardening over?
Are the days of the Over Gardened garden nearly over? We have never been able to afford more than day a week of garden help. So when someone referred [...]
Do you think you are sufficiently decayed?
End of season It’s autumn at the moment, (just?) and it seems the garden is blazing in glory with the autumn colours, even when the sun fails to shine. [...]
Garden light
Autumn may be the most wonderful time to enjoy the effects of light in the garden. The sun is lower and softer, and the result can be amazing. We have [...]
Japanese anemones taking a starring role.
A celebration of a flower which is being a total delight at Veddw just now: Japanese anemone or Anemone hupehensis. Japanese anemones often get identified as weeds in the UK, [...]
Garden visiting
A Real Rant. By now some of you may mistakenly be thinking I’m a nice person, but here comes a Proper Rant. We visited a garden last week and we [...]
Where do you hide your weeds?
We all do it. Sometimes we do it in other people's gardens and we really shouldn't. I mean the random weeding as you walk round the garden, deep in conversation [...]
Celebrating roses
This is a cheat. It's hardly a rant. It's just a big treat for those of us who do, in spite of everything, still fall for and indulge a love [...]