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 [...]
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 [...]
A book is commissioned. (not mine) I was recently talking with a friend who has just been commissioned to write a book about a specific genus of plants. [...]
Garden Making: - For some people in the UK making a new garden means getting a designer in, or at least thinking radically about what to keep and what to [...]