End of month view: July 2014
Hot and dry for much of the month, July saw the perennials and kitchen garden really take off. My Solanum crispum ‘Glasnevin’ (green leaves starting to take over the fence on the right) went mad and Kevin thankfully added more wire …
Garden visit: Burton Agnes Walled Garden
It’s hard to resist a walled garden. Well, I cannot, anyway. Just the idea of a walled garden, a place of adventure and beauty. All very ‘Secret Garden‘. Kevin & I wanted a day out, Kevin wanted to visit the …
Garden visit: Clumber Park Walled Kitchen Garden
Last week we visited Clumber Park Walled Kitchen Garden, which happens to be not far from us here in Sheffield, being on the edge of Nottinghamshire & South Yorkshire near Worksop. I’ll let the pictures to the talking. Well, mainly, a …
End of Month View: June 2014
The garden at the end of June June saw the garden mostly get along without me, as I had other things that took up my time for much of the month. I guess the attention in previous months helped as …
Remembering Merlyn
Merlyn, our beautiful cat of 14 years, sadly died on Wednesday. He had been unwell for a while, but in the last few weeks the condition (FIV), got so bad that he was no longer eating, and in the Vet’s …