Ministry of weeds
I doubt our neighborhood hillside is in immediate jeopardy of an uprising or a landslide, situated as it is, on top of a massive fortress of Ordovician limestone. Our exiled, [...]
Does Wild need to look Wild?
It's everywhere. Various Chelsea Flower Show gardens this year included the newly fashionable weeds. Interestingly, I saw someone quoted as saying that that was ok because ‘it was [...]
Set a Weed to catch a Weed.
Readers in America will have to forgive me some of this. I understand you have many 'invasives' and many people only wish to grow native plants. And I think many [...]
Is it getting away from us?
As I attempt to view the garden with a clear eye, I’ve found I need to consider decay, disorder and dereliction. It’s the nature of a garden and garden plants [...]
Easy Gardening with Good (Ground Cover?)Thugs.
Contemplating thuggish plants. Recently a few of us, all members of the Hardy Plant Society Monmouthshire Group, got together over a good supper to enjoy each other’s company and to [...]
Weeds I Want
Wild is now The Thing. This has made me review some of the plants in the garden. I am deciding which weeds I will choose to live with. As opposed [...]
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 [...]
Making Gardens
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 [...]