I absolutely, utterly, totally and categorically hate anything above a breeze. Today much of the UK has been battered by gale-force gusts of wind, it still continues as I write …

It’s getting towards the end of May and the April showers have finally finished. It’s been warm for a few days and the warm sunny weather is set to continue. …

At the corner of the garden is a sizeable ornamental cherry blossom and it has beautiful double-flowers of the most delicate soft pink. It comes out rather late in terms …

Well, this is the 100th Post. It’s kind of crept up on me. I haven’t really been keeping track of the numbers. This garden blog is still more about how …

I spent a lot of time in February and March defining and properly edging the lawn to set the borders for this year. So a few days ago, when I …

Though the rain hasn’t moved, the gardening year has. Several of the early spring flowering shrubs and plants such as the Skimmia and Spirea have finished. The ornamental red-currant is …

As the (still daily) showers continue and the garden further saturates with water, a set of plants enjoying all the moisture are the ferns. We have a few different types …

Well we’re in the Easter holidays now and I am taking a well-earned break from the garden and the only way to safely be sure of that is to go …