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. [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The garden is about to peak, Charles says. As I’m very focused on later flowers I’m surprised for a moment. Then he says that the ramblers are out and I [...]
New Gardens? Not many people in Britain get to make a new garden, as the place is ram jam full of old gardens. This is not reflected in those surprisingly [...]