I spent most of last week trundling around Yorkshire with a large group of friends indulging in visiting gardens, plant buying and eating cake – what’s not to love. I have been on this holiday for four years now, to different parts of the UK, and this year for some reason I was acutely aware…
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Six on Saturday 20/7/19 – A Soggy Interlude
I’ve been away for a week visiting gardens in Yorkshire, very inspiring and I will probably share my thoughts and images with you soon. I only had time on arriving home to unload my plant acquisitions so I didn’t have a chance to walk round the garden until Friday morning when it was absolutely pouring. …
Take one Aeonium….
Take one group of overgrown leggy aeoniums add… a pile of old terracotta pots and a few trugs of sandy gritty compost and you get a whole load of aeoniums which I am now wondering what I will do with if they take. When I got my first aeonium it took me some time before…
A new kind of madness
I was reading the introduction of an embroidery book yesterday morning which really spoke to my inner gardener, as much as my embroidery self. The book, Needlework Antique Flowers by Elizabeth Bradley is from the early 1990s and belonged to a former member of my Embroiderers Guild who sadly died earlier this year. I love…
Six on Saturday – 25th May 2019
Every so often there are unexpected delights in the garden and this week seems to have delivered more than its fair share. I have grown Tragopodon crocifolius for years, well I have I have grown it, what I actually mean is that I grew it from seed probably around 8 years ago and it has…
Six on Saturday – Returning from Sicily
I’ve been away for just over a week touring Sicily. The weather was very much as we have had in the last few days – low 20s but for Sicily this is much cooler than normal. However, for me, considering we were sightseeing and walking lots the temperature was just about right and I avoided…
Garden Bloggers Bloom Day – May 2019
This month the stars of the garden are the various irises and aquilegias. I have always loved Irises of all sorts. My love affair started with bearded irises such as Langport Wren above. Over the years various varieties have come and gone from the garden, mainly due to too much shade, but Langport Wren has…
Six on Saturday – 27 April 2019
I had such good intentions of posting my six on Saturday post yesterday. I took the photos in the morning despite Storm Hannah gusting her way across the garden sending my neighbours fence off down his garden. But then it all went pear shaped and I caught my foot in a pile of bed linen…
Six on Saturday – 13/4/19
A gorgeous day in the garden here in Malvern. Whilst there has been a cool wind, when the sun shone it was almost t-shirt warm. Especially when you are rapidly going up and down a sloping garden moving pots around. As I hope to do Garden Bloggers Bloom Day post on Monday I thought I…
Six on Saturday – 30th March 2019
Like the host of this meme I find myself resenting time away from the garden at the moment. Today I would normally go to an HPS meeting but it was either sit in a village hall discussing plants or actually be outside in the garden getting on with sorting out my garden – I chose…
