Monster mahonia
You know those modest unassuming mahonias you find tucked away in a corner in most gardens, doing their stuff in …
Category Archives: Uncategorized
Plant-buying season again…
I have the extreme good fortune to live not very far from RHS Wisley, which is about as close to …
Earth stood hard as iron…
Woke up this morning to a hard frost, one of the few we’ve had this winter. Since I can’t get …
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow
Excuse me for getting excited – but I just love the snow. It’s powdering my garden to a depth of …
Tulips again!
I’m currently reading Anna Pavord’s “The Tulip” – it’s been around for a while, but I thought since I’ve spent …
Plant wrestling
Another session with the overgrown pond today, and I’ve at last had a go at the sadly overgrown forsythia which …
Pond dipping
I have a small and very overgrown pond at the end of the garden that’s been woefully neglected over the …
Layers and layers of colour
I’ve just planted up a potful of bulbs – yes, I know, much too late really, but these were a …
Uninvited guests
I’ve had to take my uninvited guests in hand this week – in other words, thin out the self-sown seedlings …
Late-season planting
I was expecting to have finished my planting until spring by now – but to my surprise, an order I …
Sally Nex 