Now I’m a bit hopeless at taking good photos. I take pictures that usually end up blurred, have bad composition or have my thumb in the corner etc. I blame …

In the front garden along the fence grows a dense mass of something called “three cornered garlic”. I only recently found out that this is what it is called after …

Several of my favourite plants are now in flower (they become my favourites when plants flower, then drop off the list after) just as the weather has taken a turn for the …

The Dicentra Spectabilis or “Bleeding Hearts” that I divided into three about a month ago now have all come up and are beginning to flower. Mother and clone and other …

We have a “Blue Spirea” (Caryopteris x Clandonensis) as well as a white Spirea in the garden. The white is “Spiral x Arguta” and is also known as “Foam of …

The people who lived in the house before us had planted Bergenias (affectionately known as “Elephant Ears”) in the border by the house in the front garden. The soil here …

This is the third year we’ve had daffodils in the lawn. The first year they were amazing, the second year was abysmal with virtually all of them coming up blind …

As a “thank-you” for buying 1000 snowdrops, the place that I ordered them from thought that after I had planted all those, I wouldn’t mind planting a few more bulbs …