During the spring and summer of this year I have been working on a garden sketchbook, trying to show our garden through these two seasons using a variety of media from photography to pencil crayon sketching. A few weeks back I had to send my completed sketchbook over to Brooklyn, USA. My sketchbook is part […]
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My Garden Journal 2020 October
Back with another look at my garden journal, this time looking at my entries for the autumnal month of October. It is mostly about the effects of autumn on our garden but the first two pages are a continuation of looking at finishing off the hard task of reconstructing our wildlife pond. The set of […]
My Garden Journal 2020 – September
September, the month that is neither summer or autumn is a true one-off special! I always like to think of it as still being in summer, whatever the met office decrees! I began my September journal entries by writing, “September is the month that we hope will give us an Indian Summer, and this year’s […]
Our first post lock down NGS Garden in Shropshire – ‘Offcot’
Opening our own garden along with Vicky, Rosa and Jacob’s next door garden early in July made us one of Shropshire’s first open gardens under the new timed ticket system. The first Shropshire NGS garden we visited was a little later when we visited Offcot, a garden with a younger gardener/owner than is the norm […]
Gardening in Lockdown – Lilies
Mid-June in lock down is a good time to admire lilies flowering throughout our borders and even the first flower of Hemerocalis, the Day Lily. Enjoy my photos of some of our lilies.
Gardening in Lockdown – Aeoniums
Aeonium have been one of my plantaholic obsessions now for several years and I am still slowly adding to my collection. Recently I have managed to acquire a few cuttings of varieties previously unknown to me such as Aeonium ‘Kiwi’ and Aeonium lancerottense. Kiwi is a variegated cultivar with pale greens highlighted with creams and […]
First walk for months! Part 1
After not being allowed out of our own property because of the coronavirus once we heard I was allowed a little freedom we immediately went out for a walk around the village. We set off down our lane which goes through the village and soon turned left into Well Lane where we soon found the […]
Gardening in Lockdown – clematis
At the end of May onwards our larger flowering clematis varieties come into their own producing waterfalls of colour. Their beautiful buds promise delights to come as the flowers themselves. Come with me and my camera for a wander and see which ones are well in flower. To navigate through the gallery simply click […]
My Garden Journal 2020 – April
Back with my garden journal I will now share with you my pages for April, a strange month as we are in total lock down because of the coronavirus problems. The many sunny warm days allowed us the luxury of leisurely time in the garden and even time for lots of sitting on our several […]
Are you sitting comfortably – no 14 in a very occasional series
Back with another set of garden seats for you to enjoy. Imagine yourself taking a seat for a rest, to take in the view and appreciate the comfort of the seats themselves. Firstly let me share a few seats from the gardens at Ivy Croft in Herefordshire, a garden open for its huge snowdrop collection […]
