What a glorious treat, two whole days of gardening, in fact the first real gardening time this year. What with injuring my arm just after Christmas planting a Sorbus in the front garden and the icy or wet weekends January was a very frustrating month. However, it did allow a lot of time to ponder…
Category: Big border
End of Month View – November 2016
I initially started this post by saying that as I have been away most of November very little has happened to Hugh’s Border, the focus of this year’s End of Month View. How very presumptuous of me! Of course things have happened as Nature has no interest in whether or not I am present to…
My Garden This Weekend – 9th October 2016
So its been many weeks, no months, since I wrote a ‘My garden this weekend’ post. I won’t bore you yet again with my emotional struggles with the garden and my lack of enthusiasm. Suffice to say that this weekend I had to really push myself to get on with some of the tasks that…
Plans are afoot
My garden for the last 9 years or so has become my identity to many people particularly as I have been a serial blogger on the subject. Even recently at work people have started to ask about my blog and I’ve heard the expression “Helen writes a gardening blog you know” more and more. Something…
Notes from the Garden – 10th April
I think we have had all four seasons this weekend with wind, rain and heavy sleet yesterday and frost overnight but today spring returned which meant I could get on with my planting plans. The focus today was the long border along the top of the wall. I want it to have a sort of…
From small things
I have been on annual leave this week and as ever had plans to spend time sorting the garden out, as well as redecorating the living room – I am always over ambitious! Firstly, the weather at the start of the week was not very conducive to gardening being dreary and wet and various unexpected…
Notes from the Garden – 13th March 2016
Finally a glorious spring weekend which has seen me bumbling around the garden just like the big lumbering bumble bees that have been visiting the hellebores and primulas. My head has been spinning with ideas and plans over the last few weeks so it was a real relief to start putting some of them into…
Notes from the garden – 6th March
There is nothing quite like a few stolen hours working in the garden on a chilly early Spring Sunday to make you feel heroic and pleased with yourself. The choice of task on such a day needs to be given careful consideration; this is not the time for slow and pondering chores but for those…
Pondering on the Front Garden project
I suspect I was unconsciously thinking about taking up the front lawn when I decided to feature the front garden this year as the End of Month view. It made me smile that I made no reference to lifting the lawn in my post but the view of commentators was unanimous that it should go…
End of Month View September 2015
Whilst the garden might not be as floriferous (there’s that word again) as some at the end of September I am pleased with the range of texture and colour from foliage at the start of Autumn. The borders along the grass path are looking fuller and more established than a year ago I have finally…
My Garden This Weekend – 9th August 2015
It seems as though summer has finally arrived, the temperatures have definitely lifted into the 20Cs and the borders are very dry; not great given the plants I have planted out in the last few weeks such as the Echinacea above. I was lucky to receive a gift of a number of Echinacea from Rob…
End of Month View – July 2015
July has whizzed past in the flash of an eye and here we are at the end and you would be forgiven in thinking that we have gone forward to the end of September it is so cool. It feels as though the garden has slowed down with flowers lasting longer in bloom and the…
