When I posted at the end of September I included a photo of the front garden, which I rarely post pictures of. One of my readers suggested that I post more often on the front garden as it looks interesting so here you go. It is timely as the planting in the front garden was…
Category: gardening
A Love Letter to Gardeners
Sometimes the smallest thing can transform your day. Receiving an email from Lawnstarter this morning telling me that I had received a golden trowel award and was in their list of top 70 garden blogs was great but what really made my day was how they described my blog: “The Patient Gardener is a love…
End of Month View – September 2018
I do enjoy this time of year as much as I enjoy Spring. I enjoy tidying up in the garden, because of the sense of achievement you get, and then there is the bulb planting with promise of Spring. I should have taken the photo first thing before the sun came round I realised this…
Safely stored away
A bit of a panic today when I saw that temperatures might go down to 3C tonight and tomorrow night. Whilst I had started to move some of my tender plants under cover a few weeks ago the job was far from complete. I had been putting it off partly due to the hefting of…
Garden Bloggers Bloom Day – Sept 2018
The Tithonia are the stars of the Big Border at the moment. I am really pleased with them having grown them from seed. They were planting out just before the heat wave and then just sat there until the heatwave broke. They have quickly put on growth and are now flowering their socks off. I…
A good clean up
I generally have little interest in gardening in August, its normally too hot for me and I think I’m just waiting for Autumn to start appearing round the corner, one of my two favourite months. This year I’ve been even worse given the heat wave we have endured since May. However, apart from a bit…
Yeo Valley Organic Garden
The other week I spent lovely 4 days with a group of friends exploring the gardens of Somerset and Wiltshire. One of the gardens I was quietly looking forward to seeing was the Yeo Valley Organic Garden which we were due to see on our way home. I’ve been aware of this garden for some…
The front garden two years on
Its been two years, and a couple of weeks, since I, well my youngest son, dug up our front lawn. It was decision I laboured over for more than a year – what would I put in its place? Well plants obviously, but what? What theme would I have? Did I need a focal point?…
A garden of inspiration
The trouble I find with spending a number of days visiting gardens is the sensory overload. So many gardens, plants, owners, ideas and experiences and when you then start to try and think about how to distil your experience into a blog post; well sometimes it seems to be a challenge too far. I have…
GBBD May 2018
Whilst I was away having a jolly time in Austin the garden was busy getting on with life and a new cast was waiting to surprise me. The first Aquilegia flowers definitely signify the imminent arrival of summer. Sadly over the years the number of long spurred Aquilegias seem to have diminished, something I must…
