Tomato season of 2019 over

As the weather is becoming little colder at ends of the day and damper too – this weekend have emptied our small tunnel and wooden greenhouse of tomato plants and washed down the floor and glass to try and drive away resident small spiders and snails looking for somewhere nice to overwinter. im sure they’ll […]

Happiest

Happiest outside and to be honest, as our garden is a little overgrown, face down – pulling weeds or clipping hedges or bushes into different shapes. One bush resembles a very large chicken and another until we cut it back, the lock ness monster. Most of our vegetables are growing well – experimenting with growing […]

Bumble

Just been raining and this massive bee was visiting the cyclamens. Think later in the year the ants carry the seed away around the garden but the flowers seem to prefer the shady area under pine trees.

Sad story

This is slightly disturbing story. Busy outside yesterday, planting seeds on an unusually warm February afternoon … and went to get the watering can to water them in before bringing inside to help them to germinate. the watering can felt like it was filled with rain water but nothing came out and because thought it […]

Five fox cubs playing in the garden – Ben Clarke

Visiting Bees

Flowering Pumpkins

The temperature dropped from about 27 to 21 degrees overnight and when looked out the window early morning, all the pumpkins were flowering – huge yellow flowers. The sky was cloudy and not many bees around – so pretended to be a large bee and went around transferring pollen. Dont think these flowers will become […]

nighttime garden

Another beautiful day, althou not a heat wave. we tried to add many scented flowers to our garden and at the end of a warm June day the scent is very lovely – honeysuckle, roses – almost over, different lavender, thyme and sweetpea – althou my favorite is the night scented stock. Because it may […]

Red Primroses

the last few days, no cloud in the sky and the light changes everything

World moving on

Just busy outside because the skys are blue, transplanting small plants and taking cuttings and making small dogs for an event involved in later on. Made a small Staffy carrying a stick, a Schnauzer and an Arctic Fox – howling. Constant tapping on a window where a long tailed tit going crazy looking at himself […]

Helen Dillon’s Garden – National Treasure

Monty Don chatting to writer and gardener Helen Dillon in her beautiful abundent Irish walled town garden just before it was sold, commented that.. “Gardening was what grown ups do outside to play” in reponse to her comment that gardening was the only place she felt at peace. Another funny exchange about an orange rose […]

Kew in the Country

Visited this Garden this weekend and it was being set for a Wedding. Took my parents and my dad told us about Sir Henry Price the ’50 Shilling Taylor’ who was the last person to own Wakehurst before it was donated to the National Trust and then leased by Kew to be its Garden in […]

Poppys

Purple Alliums

Poached Egg Plants and visiting Bees

Easter monday sunrise

Just passing by

Longer days and more outside, funny how thou we’ve had a mild wet winter, outside looks likes its waking up from deep sleep. Trying to grow more bedding plants and herbs than usual because hoping might be able to sell them at markets. So we’ve borrowed some metal hoops and buying some plastic to make […]

Bunnys

Went up to look at the bunny den at the top of our garden.. have thrown a few things in to try and deter them, some large clods of earth and a few large rocks. But they have dug them all out and little stranger, where we have planted a few dozen lavender plants in […]

Cyclamen

Cyclamen underneath the pine trees