Beans, sunflowers and not enough hours in the day

April 30, 2023

Hello to you all! I hope your gardening week has gone well. My veg patch is filling up steadily as …

Almond blossom, new potatoes and hungry mice

April 2, 2023

Hello again! It may be raining, it may be freezing cold, but it is impossible not to have a smile …

February 19, 2017

Well. Hasn’t it got busy around here lately. There I was, listening morosely to the tumbleweed (well, gales and splattering …

January 4, 2017

March 10, 2016

Not much gardening going on yesterday: it was blowing a hooley again and though it wasn’t exactly raining hard, what …

March 2, 2016

As seen at the RHS Early Spring Plant Fair

November 28, 2015

I have tulips dancing before my eyes. I must have planted a thousand in the last few weeks. Not in …

February 5, 2013

Always the last one to the party, that’s me. But I didn’t want to wave January goodbye without documenting what …