The Patient Gardener
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies - Gertrude Jekyll
It’s been a while since I posted a Garden Bloggers Bloom Day (GBBD) post but with my renewed blogging and a sunny morning I thought I would post away. My approach...
I’ve been moving a lot of plants around over the last couple of weeks partly to clear the Big Border for edibles but also to address some of the plants that...
It is ages since I posted an End of Month View post. I have been hosting this meme for something like 10 years and I think that I just ran out...
Some eight years ago I made the decision to give up on veg growing and gave up my allotment. It had been a love/hate relationship from the start for a whole...
My head is buzzing with ideas, one idea bouncing off another and taking my gardening thoughts in another direction. It takes me back, two, three years ago or even four years...
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...
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 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...
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...
Ben’s Etsy Shop
