Top working apple trees is something I hadn’t practised for over fifty years! So when we found two large and rather nondescript cider apple trees in our garden I was faced with a dilemma! [...]
I’ve been given a Cordless Grass and Hedge shears to review. The kind people at Webb tools recently sent me one of their new power tools to try out. It’s a battery driven and hand [...]
The Ernest Wilson Garden has been on my bucket list for a very long time and I recently ticked that one off! Ernest Wilson was a truly remarkable man and gardens in the Western World owe a lot to [...]
The Gerdemann Botanic Preserve is a garden gem on the west coast of USA! It’s not one of those high profile and big budget gardens but is well worth a visit if you find yourself on the [...]
I love foraging for mushrooms! Nothing very adventurous you understand as I’m not experienced and knowledgeable enough to know what is safe to eat and what is definitely not! And I’ve [...]
Selfie kit bag review Followers of my blogs and my social media feeds will know that I’m not a great one for self promotion and certainly not for over-use of ‘selfies’. However, [...]
My rainwater harvesting installation may have jinxed the weather! Ever since I’ve finished installing my new rainwater harvesting installation in my garden here in South Somerset it has [...]
Friends of Trees in PNW (Pacific Northwest of USA) is not new. In fact it has been around a longtime having been established way back in 1989. In those last 35 years almost one million trees and [...]
Alan Down is able to tackle a wide range of horticultural consultancy projects. He is able to draw on a lifetime of commercial, retail and amateur horticultural experience. Alan has worked in [...]
Galanthus ‘Merlin’, an old snowdrop, is just beginning to bloom [mid January] in my garden now. Of all the hundreds of varieties of snowdrop you might wonder why I’ve chosen to [...]
