Pros and Cons of a Buxus Hedge

All Posts, June

Pros and Cons of a Buxus Hedge Me and my Buxus To lighten up the red brick of the house, I have chosen a white colour scheme to wrap around the perimeter.  The 1920s home has an elegant perhaps imposing style, that I felt could do with some softening up.  The...

May Highlights

All Posts, May

                       May Highlights    Lilac Evoking memories is one of my driving forces when choosing plants.  The smell of lilac takes me straight back to childhood and my walk home from school past the neighbour’s garden.  We have two...

January Highlights

All Posts, January

January Highlights Hellebores These sturdy hellebores, also known as Christmas Roses, have had various homes in my garden. At the moment, they look right at home in the Winter Patch and will continue flowering into Spring.  They like to be positioned in light shade...

You say tomato…I say how many?

All Posts, April

You say tomato, I say how many?… I went tomato crazy last year! Although 2020 brought with it: the doom and gloom of covid; the obsessive washing of groceries; rationing of loo rolls…..oh and finding endless uses for bananas, it also brought with it (for...

Feed the Birds

All Posts, January

Feed the Birds Trees very much dominate the area where we have moved to.  In turn I have been lucky enough to watch and listen to a much wider variety and number of birds.  Every morning a wee robin appears from the hedge outside our back door.  It seems to have found...

Winter Pots

All Posts, January

Potty over Winter Pots… I haven’t been too adventurous in the past with container displays, so this winter I thought I would give it a go. Anything to brighten up January 2021. I am a big fan of Adam Frost and he has designed a planter arrangement, which I...

Winter Pruning

All Posts, February

Winter Pruning We inherited this old man of an apple tree with the house. The tree had been left to overgrow for a decade, so a couple of years ago we got a tree surgeon to take a look at it. He gave the tree a hard prune, opening up the branches, which can be clearly...

Propagating Strawberries

All Posts, October, September

Propagating Strawberries Over a year ago, I planted some strawberry plants in a basket and forgot all about them. Around came 2020 and I, like a lot of people, became obsessed with planting vegetables and baking banana bread.  I found the bedraggled strawberry plants...

Winter Interest

All Posts, December

Winter Interest During the unpredictable challenges of 2020, the inevitability of the changing seasons provided me with a great deal of comfort. However, as the darker nights cut short the time that I could normally spend in the garden, I have to admit a sense of...

Planting Tulips

All Posts, November

Planting Tulips As November comes around and the days become shorter, I start longing for Spring and for the garden to come back to life.  Planting spring flowering bulbs is the perfect antidote to those winter blues that can creep up on all of us, giving us a sense...