After not being able to visit any gardens during the lockdown period, due to government guidelines, it was great when some lifting of the lockdown rules allowed gardens using a timed pre-booked ticket only system to open. The RHS, NT and our very own NGS (Yellow Book Gardens) all made plans to make this safe. […]
Tag Archives: succulents
Succulents in Flower
We grow dozens of succulents especially aeoniums and echeverias. We love them because they give us wonderful variations in foliage, texture, colour, pattern and shape, but they all will throw up a flower spike on occasion. This week we suddenly had a few flowering all at once, so enjoy my photos!
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 […]
Gardening in lockdown – new Sempervivum
Each spring I try to buy some new House Leeks, Sempervivum. This year though we couldn’t go out and choose some from nurseries due to “lockdown” so it was a case of ordering online. But it was exciting opening the packaging! Here are some of my new acquisitions – enjoy! The beauty is in the […]
My Garden Journal 2020 – June
Back to my garden journal for 2020 again and we are into the last month of the first half of the year, June, the month that sees the longest day and shortest night. I began by sharing some of our rose bushes and climbing varieties that we grow throughout our garden in mixed borders and […]
Gardening in lockdown – Succulents in Containers
Once it is warm enough day and especially night time for plants to be hardened off out of the greenhouse I always enjoy smartening up my succulent containers and perhaps create a few new ones. Even within lock down I still enjoyed this activity, especially as I had a few new aeonium and echeveria cuttings […]
Gardening in lockdown – Jude’s micro-nursery plants sort out
We sell lots of plants mostly perennials and shrubs when we open our garden and when we give talks to clubs and societies. I take the shrub cuttings and Jude deals with seed sowing and looking after plant divisions and self seeded perennials. The greenhouse is almost exclusively used to sow and then grow on […]
My Garden Journal 2019 – July
We move into the second half of the year with this visit to my 2019 garden journal, where we shall see what the garden has to offer and take a look at some of our gardening tasks for the month. The first double page spread featured borders in our front garden, beginning with a follow […]
My Garden Journal 2017 – November
The penultimate visit to my garden journal for 2017 is here – hope you enjoy it. I began by referring back to a development we started in the garden back in September which we finished off in November. We are very pleased with how it has turned out and look forward to seeing the new […]
Westgate Villa, a Japanese garden in Shropshire
Jude and I have a soft spot for gardens with a Japanese feel to them, and we are lucky to have an excellent example in our home county of Shropshire and just a short drive away. We had heard of the garden at Westgate in Bridgnorth and always intended to pay a visit but circumstances […]
