The Patient Gardener
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies - Gertrude Jekyll
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Ben’s Etsy Shop
