Like most of us I haven’t been able to get out lately, let alone onto the garden, but what I have been doing is thinking about extending the layers of planting in the one garden I have been able to do some work in. Wet days in winter are a good opportunity to look around [...]
Every time we have a hot dry spell am reminded how fast plants flower and give up displaying just for us, the job of making seeds having been accomplished in double quick time,the seed cases browning and ready to disperse their bounty. I am not a particularly neurotic person but the thought of ‘Oh my- [...]
In late July rather later than I might have preferred I trimmed our topiary hornbeam hedge. The long new season growths had increased the size of the hedge by about 2 feet. I like my hedge to have a formal shape although one of the glories of the Hornbeam is that it becomes very informal [...]
Kate has been busy developing her skills with roses for a few years now which has given our garden a good show of them, I took these photo’s of one group in our garden from buds to full flower. They start with pictures in June with Hesperis which is an excellent combination to my mind, [...]
It has only just become possible to imagine that we will have roses and stuff this year what with the weather and all (I am writing this 26th april and again we have a north east wind and a frost forecast for tonight). It seems unlikely but when you are reading this your roses should [...]