Roses in November
When the Irish poet Thomas Moore went on in a lamenting sort of way about ‘the last rose of summer’ …
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Netting niggles
Is it my imagination, or are the leaves coming down faster this autumn? We’ve had a week or so of …
The path to enlightenment #2
Back to the grindstone: you may remember I had a two-inch layer of MOT on the path which once I’d …
The path to enlightenment #1
We’ve gone a bit potty with the hard landscaping lately. First it was the gravel, which smartened things up around …
The Friday photo
Gourds in the greenhouse at West Dean Gardens, Chichester
I’ve got three triffids
I took a rip saw to my new triffid the other day. I couldn’t quite take the JAS option and …
Inspiration from West Dean #3
If you thought training fruit was a simple matter of arranging the branches in a sort of fan-shape against a …
Inspiration from West Dean #2
One for the hard-landscaping wishlist here…. There’s a little loggia that formed the full stop to a very long pergola …
October flowers
The smell of autumn is in the air. We’ve had just the gentlest kiss of frost, not enough to hurt …
Inspiration from West Dean #1
I’m suffering from a bad case of coldframe envy. I went down to West Dean Gardens a little while ago, …
Sally Nex 