Borde Hill Garden had been on my wish list for a very long time. It wasn’t until late April of this year that I finally got to visit! The gardens are located in West Sussex in the south [...]
Ornamental edibles can hold their own with flowers! In fact some ornamental edibles are not only good enough to eat but can upstage many of the flowering plants we grow! There are masses of [...]
One of the UK’s biggest seed and plant suppliers has asked me to share with you the chance to win some great plants! They are Thompson and Morgan and they’re offering some really [...]
Now that bulbs are popping up everywhere in the garden I’m reminded that it’s time to get planting summer blooming bulbs! Daffodils, crocus and snowdrops will soon be followed by the richest of [...]
To grow periwinkle plants is not difficult! They are an easy to please plant that provides effective evergreen ground cover. This results in low maintenance gardening but also is good for nature. [...]
Sweet violets used to be a very popular cut flower. In Victorian times ladies would pin sweet violets to their clothes and hair. The cut flower industry is no more but sweet violets still deserve [...]
Shepton Mallet Snowdrop Festival is an annual event. It’s held every February. Snowdrops are at their best in February! This was our first visit to the Festival. We thoroughly enjoyed it. [...]
West Country Lupins have been developed high up on Exmoor. It’s not the place that I would choose to build a nursery but Woolsery is where that classic of the cottage garden the lupin has [...]
Weed control made easy may sound too good to be true! But in this blog I want to take a look at main options available to the gardener when faced with the inevitable flush of weeds that grow each [...]
A Great British Wildlife and Environment Map dropped into my letter box recently and the creator, Marvellous Maps, have asked me to review it. It was kind of them to ask me to do this and send me [...]
