Gardening with ME: a review of 2015
As 2015 draws to a close, like many garden bloggers I have been reflecting on the past year in the garden. As a garden blogger who gardens with a chronic illness, ME, it could be easy to focus upon all …
Gardening with ME: pressed flowers & foliage – the first results
This is a follow-up of my post at the end of November, on my new hobby of pressing flowers and foliage. I checked how the pressings were going a week ago (all fine) and yesterday I completed process of adding …
Gardening with ME: pressed flowers & foliage – a new gardening-related hobby?
It started with a Tweet. The above tweet in fact from Caro Shrives @UrbanVegPatch, last Saturday. Actually, it started before that even. In my last post I talked about having to face some hard facts about how much more I …
Photo essay: Sheffield Botanical Gardens – late October autumn visit
After visiting at the beginning of October, we returned to the Sheffield Botanical Gardens at the end of October to have a wander and see how some of the autumn colours were coming along. It was a very cloudy day, …
Autumn colours in a young garden
My garden is just under two years old and for the first time, I’m enjoying autumn colours in the garden. Last year autumn seemed to pass the garden by. I think that was because the high winds blew leaves off …
Gardening with ME: facing some hard facts
Helianthus ‘Velvet Queen’ It’s never easy when something is staring you in the face that you are doing your best to ignore. It doesn’t matter where you turn, it’s there telling you it’s time to face some hard facts. The …
Photo essay: Sheffield Botanical Gardens in Autumn 2015
The clear blue skies and warm autumn sun called to us and it said: visit the Sheffield Botanical Gardens, have lunch and walk around and enjoy the sun and changing seasons. Well, when you put it like that… The …
Heather on the moors
It’s that time of the year again and the heather is in full flower in the Peak District. What is different this year is that this was the first time we also was able to experience the fragrance of the …