Category: Seeds
Six on Saturday 6th July 2019 – Summer Bulbs
I have a passion for bulbs, as well as ferns and some other groups of plants, but bulbs I really love. I love that there is so much energy and possibility packed into a small bulb, or corm. I love that bulbs send up their flower, like a rocket, and then die down allowing space…
Potted Relief
It’s fair to say that I don’t do well in the heat at the best of times so you can imagine that over the last week or so with temperatures reaching the low 30Cs (high 80Fs) I have been pushed to engage with the garden. I’m coming to the end of a weeks annual leave…
Pacific Coast Surprise
Its funny how things work out. There I was thinking I would write a blog post about the gardens I saw in Austin when something caught my eye in the garden. It was this beauty, a Iris Pacific Coast hybrid. Now my American friends may think, what’s all the fuss about, but here in the…
A New Toy
I have treated myself to a new propagator this time one that is thermostatically controlled. I have a heated tray which I use to help with germination in the greenhouse but I want to try some more exotic plants so I have splashed out on a Premium Propagator from Stewart. Now to splash out on…
Seed Mountain
Back in my early teens there used to be reference on the news to the EU butter mountain which bemused me. I had these quite grotesque images of oozing mountains of butter. I was reminded of these this weekend when I emptied out my seed box. In my last post I wrote about my lack…
My Garden This Weekend – 19th April 2015
I’m struggling a little with life at the moment and to top everything else off my car has died on me so I have the irritation of having the phone the garage tomorrow and no doubt part with large sums of money at some point this week. The only time this past week when I…
The Greenhouse Year – April 2014
Another month has passed and the greenhouse is full to bursting although the winter occupants are beginning to move out and the new spring tenants are starting to move in. There has been a slight swop over with the succulents moving across the greenhouse to the slatted benching and the seedling trays moving to the…
My garden this weekend – 9th March 2014
Yellow describes this weekend – the sun has shone, the daffodils have bloomed and I have had two happy days gardening. Last weekend having only one day’s good weather I charged around the garden and the same was true yesterday but today, being greeted by a second sunny day the sense of panic gardening eased…
My garden this weekend – 22/12/13
As a child I had a proclivity for making mud pies and generally messing around in the garden – as a small child I even came in with a slug in my mouth!! This proclivity has stayed with me through my life, the mud pies not the slug eating, and I am never happier than…
