Moving matters #3: Home improvements
You know that thing you do when you’re selling a house when you rush round getting all the jobs done …
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Upside-down tulips
You know all those dire warnings always to plant your tulip bulbs (and indeed any other type of bulb) the …
Gardening on air #3: Painting with words
A little poetry today, written by Andrew Young, a 19th-century Scottish botanist and clergyman who is said to have seen …
Butterflies at Wisley 2010
Not quite as many to see this year as it’s been so cold – we’re planning to return in a …
Wordless Wednesday
Pavonia x gledhillii as seen in the glasshouse at RHS Wisley
And now for something completely different
Look what I got my hands on at the weekend! I’ve been trying to track down one of these for …
GOOPs February
Notes to self: 1) In winter, branches on apple trees are full of water and therefore VERY heavy.2) You know …
Garden words: Gardens as Art #2
I must confess I find portraits a bit boring. Those po-faced people you see lining the oak-panelled walls of stately …
Wordless Wednesday
Cyclamen hederifolium leaf
Discovering new plants: A is for….
Abelia Welcome to another project of mine for this year. Now I grow a lot of plants, in my own …
Sally Nex 