Notes on growing ornamentals and edibles, and musings on other matters that interest me.
March has been a month full of quiet growth in the garden. Not much in the way of drama, just a gentle unfolding of new buds, leaves and early Spring flowers. Overview of the garden, including new mini-greenhouse Flowering and …
Spring is full of promises of things to come. In the garden now, lots of plants are budding; here are a few of them. I love the marbling on the leaves of Erythronium Pagoda, and the flower itself will soon …
On my recent visit to RHS Harlow Carr, as well as some beautiful alpines and winter flower plantings, they also had a wonderful selection of plant supports in their kitchen garden. Here is a few that I loved for being …
It’s probably not the best way to start a blogpost, being negative, but here I go… When I visited RHS Harlow Carr several years ago (possibly more than 10 years ago), I remember coming away disappointed. It was mid-April and …
It’s amazing what a difference 28 days makes in the garden. Since the end of January the amount of light coming into the garden has doubled, and the middle veg bed is now getting full light during part of the …
Now that we have moved ‘up North’, we are in the process of discovering our new annual flower pilgrimages. In Oxfordshire, each year we would see the snowdrops at Kingston Bagpuize Gardens in February, the fritillaries at Iffley Meadows in …