Hi,
I sometimes feel I should have one leg longer than the other as my garden on the side of the Malvern Hills slopes so much.
I’m an amateur gardener with a thirst for knowledge particularly horticultural. I started my blog in 2008 initially as a way of recording the progress on the garden which was more or less a blank canvas but also to try and meet other like minded people. The blog has been a real boon. I have made lots of gardening friends and not just virtually. I have met up with loads of them and continue to have a full diary with various get togethers around the country.
Through the blog my horticultural knowledge has expanded as have my horizons. I write twice a week for the YELL.com know how pages on gardening which is a real challenge as I have to come up with informative articles that will draw readers in. I have also recently started to write occasionally for the Guardian Gardening blog which again is another learning curve but fascinating.
I have also discovered the WFGA and am now on their waiting list for a training place but in the meantime I attend as many of their workshops and study days as I can. I also regularly review books for Timberpress and other publishing houses.
This blog has lead me to go places and do things I wouldn’t have dreamt of back in 2008. The highlight so far for 2011 was helping plant a showgarden at Chelsea.
Despite all this activity I still find time, surprisingly if not more time, to garden. My passion for plants is evolving. I have moved on from a mania to grow everything I can from seed and am now, I hope, a more considered gardener who is more interested in the whole ‘right plant, right place’ concept and see how plants work together. And then there is the allotment which I took on in November 2010…..
However, despite exciting opportunities and new things and places to go I plan to continue to update this blog on a regular basis simply because I enjoy keeping a record of the garden and other things that occur around it.
Helen
Hi, nice to meet you !
Hello
I think you left a message on my answer machine yesterday about Zanthoxylum schinifoliuim. I managed to delete my messages!! If it is you perhaps you could email me with your question.
thanks. Sue
Hi Patient Gardener,
BBC Hereford & Worcester would like to meet you! Please send email me to find out more.
Thanks,
Julia.
Heard you on Mike & Reg (BBC H&W) today Helen.
Well done. You’re now on the road to superstardom. I’ll be listening out for more from you in future weeks.
Phil…
Hi Patient Gardener
I would love to speak to you about the Aspects of Gardens Series of Talks i put on, i’minterested in you coming and talking. Please email me
Thanks
Wendy
Hi Patient Gardener
I am contacting you as an employee of Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust. We are a leading conversation charity. I came across your blog for research and wanted to contact you to ask if you will be interested in writing an article for our “Festival of Garden” which will launch in March. We are trying to make people aware of the use of water butts and highlight how important and useful it is. We have a press release all ready and waiting to be screened and written. Please let me know and I’ll be happy to answer any questions.
Email if you’re interested.
Kind Regards
Laura WWT
Hi Patient Gardener,
I’m on Blotanical but I can’t work out how to get the Blotanical logo on my blog. I notice you have it on yours and was hoping you could guide me through the process of how to do it (I’m on wordpress too)????
Thanks,
Jason.
I am the author of a number of gardening books and have recently started a blog about garden design and in particular perennial meadows.
The site is http://www.perennialmeadows.com
My aim is to encourage others to think about planting in the broader context of garden design. To this end, I have written a number of posts about my ideas for the creation of perennial meadows. Additionally, I will be launching a series of eBooks through the site.
I am busily searching the web for good gardening sites to follow which is why I am contacting you. Your content is professional, intelligent and well above the average run of gardening blogs and is very relevant to my own areas of interest.
If you have time, please take a look at my new blog – any points of advice would be most appreciated as this is a new project for me.
I will continue to follow your blog and should there be any way I can help you now or in the future please do feel free to make contact.
Very best wishes,
Michael King
info@perennialmeadows.com
http://www.perennialmeadows.com
Hello, Patient Gardener! I have to laugh, as I’m new to blogging and just spent the better part of Friday and Saturday trying to figure out how to set up a blog so I could launch it on the first day of spring. Now that it’s live, I’m cruising through the blogosphere to see what’s out there, and I came upon your blog. I used a picture of mini daffs on my post, and then I see your lovely daff picture as well, and I thought, ah ha, a kindred spirit! You’ve obviously been doing this a while, and I really enjoyed looking at your blog. Then I realized you’re way across the pond, and I realized what a small world we live in. Happy first day of spring!
How lovely to find such an inspirational blog. I’ve recently moved into a house with a long, narrow, steep garden with a clay soil and an ample crop of ground elder. I neeed all the patience I can get….keep going! Jane
Gardening keeps me sane, and well…. grounded.
Thank you so much for your blog. I have mentioned you on my blog in the context of the Leibster award ~ and am passing it along to you. Feel free to accept or not. I am just happy to have found you!
http://radicalamazement.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/sharing-the-liebe/
Congratulations! You have been nominated for the Versatile Blogger Award by Cathy from http://wordsandherbs.wordpress.com. For details see Cathy’s post on 26th January:
http://wordsandherbs.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/versatile-blogger-award/
I’m really enjoying reading your blog, so played along with this award thing… feel free to do with it what you will!
Hi Helen, I have just discovered your blog. I am not a regular blogger but my daughter asked if I could grow some flowers for her wedding which is in September this year. I start blogging just to keep a diary of what was happening in my garden last summer.I found it a bit indulgant to begin with but soon realised it was a great way of keeping a record of what is growing well. I became a regular slug baiter by using Tesco Valu beer. It works a treat. I look forward to following your blog.