April and May were sunny and dry, and I got going with the veg a bit earlier this year thanks to a new pair of…
What the musician and the poet did next
Category: Garden plants
The garden is starting to look lovely. We’re not sure why but the roses are particularly good in comparison to previous years! This is Rosa…
Last autumn we finally got our new potting shed. Actually it’s a potting shed and tool shed in one building, on the site of the…
The garden is producing some fantastic fruit and veg this year. We’re growing three varieties of tomato: Gold Nugget (yellow cherry), Sweet Aperitif (red cherry)…
July started with a lovely spread of flowers. Lampranthus is a succulent with the most amazingly bright flowers. Last year we planted this one at…
Lots happening – the two clematis which we cut right back to a few sticks are both now coming up strongly. We put up some…
We recently woke up to find one of the rockery walls had collapsed, smashing a pot and smothering foxgloves, not to mention quite a few…
The garden is looking very January. We’ve had a mild winter so far, not really any frost as such, although it’s early yet! In the…