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Allotment update
Work is progressing (albeit slowly) in the reclaiming of my allotment. I usually have a couple of hours there every Sunday morning and reckon that at this rate it will take me a month of Sundays to...
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Time away from home
I’ve just returned home from a week’s holiday in Pembrokeshire, walking part of the coast path and just taking time out to simply ‘be’ – it was fabulous. The cottage we’d rented was a stone’s throw...
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Allotment challenges
Back to the allotment this morning; I knew things must be looking gloomy when, earlier in the week my other half offered to help me with it – gardening is not really his thing, but that said, now that...
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Requiem
For the first time ever I am going to have to destroy a plant. Not anything no longer wanted, in which case I always try to re-home wherever possible; and my allotment will be the richer for a number...
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My “Olympic” allotment
It has been a weekend of excitement in my neck of the woods. The Olympic Cycle road race events came to the beautiful Surrey Hills, and Box Hill took centre stage. So as you can imagine the garden,...
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Russian roulette for [by] gardeners – an update
Back in May I wrote how the ink lettering on the labels in the dahlias I’d planted had vanished, soaked away into the cheap coffee stirrers I’d used as markers. As a result I had to employ a bit of...
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Planning for next year – introducing the ‘synchroseedsow’
So it’s been a bit of a washout summer for gardeners, farmers and allotmenteers – and what else is there to do but plan for next year? After all, next year will be so much better and it is this...
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Out of my garden
A week off work this week, and the treat of a few days away to get it off to a good start. Sadly the weather did not quite live up to expectations, September can usually be relied upon to give...
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Allotment update – the fate of the September sown seeds
At the beginning of this month I wrote how I had started off some hardy annuals from the Higgledy Garden ‘Seeds to Sow in September’ range. Not only was this because I wanted to get some of my cut...
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Where does the time go?
I knew I’d been very remiss with my blog lately, but until just now, when I re-read my last entry, from September, I’d not appreciated quite how remiss. So I must work to re-establish myself and write...
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At the end of the year…
I don’t get the whole New Year’s Eve party thing. I never have done and can recall being at a party as a teenager and wondering why we wanted to make so much fuss about time passing, and with those...
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First post of the year!
And I’ll open with a photo: Garden, January 1 2013 This is the view from just outside my kitchen window, and my plan is to take a photo from the same spot at least once every week, for this year. I...
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Back to the allotment
With the weather continuing so mild, and it managing to not really rain very much for the past few days I was desperate to get onto my allotment this weekend. It is situated next to the footpath that...
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Perfume for a wintery day…
Snow on Viburnum I woke up to a fall of snow this morning. It was what I’d describe as the ‘right sort of snow’ in that it dusted the rooftops and gardens but had not been enough to settle on the...
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Snow, and an exciting development…
The viburnum branches are made to hold snow! My garden, and allotment are both fast asleep under a blanket of snow and whilst the pavements are icy and walking to the station means risking life and...
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#britishflowers
Creating this blog and actively engaging with some like-minded souls in the Twitterverse has brought me some amazing rewards already (my previous post refers) but I think the most exciting development...
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A conversation with my Mum
Hellebore ‘Double Ellen’ Red I’ve inherited my passion for plants and all things gardening from my Mum. It was she who gave me my first patch of ground and seeds to sow in it; Candytuft and Virginian...
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Seeing green
Hellebore, Double Ellen I love the colour green; I like to wear it, I have rooms painted in green and most of all I love to see it in the garden. And I find that this time of the year, when things...
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Anticipating Spring
Where does the time go? The anniversary of this blog passed unnoticed and here we are in mid-March already. I’ve decided to blame the weather (that and other demands on my weekends) because I’ve...
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“April is the cruellest month”
My under gardener gets stuck in (and blisters!) At least according to T.S Eliot it is, but from where I’m sitting and looking back, March 2013 is a top contender and that is in the relatively mild...
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