I hate the fact that Valentine’s Day falls in the middle of February. For an event centred on giving flowers (and chocolates), why on earth couldn’t it be in any …

In the last post, we left a front bay window border all newly rejuvenated, dug, levelled and poked with canes to mark out where the roses were going to go; …

I’m completely disorganised when it comes to Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day and have missed all but two since I started this blog but as luck would have it, I had …

I’ve been somewhat out of the habit of writing during this winter season; with not much going on in the garden there hasn’t been a great deal to report. Seed and …

I’ve never been a bedding fan and always turned my sophisticated nose up at gaudy displays of pansies and begonias planted en-mass in usually hideous patterns. However, with the six …

Well, the big move happened just over three weeks ago. We just got our internet connection at the new house five days ago. I managed to have a moment to …

Gosh, well, hasn’t it been a long time? Since the last post way back in September 2013, which talked about our relocation and leaving the garden I’ve been blogging about …

Although there is at least something in flower for eleven months out of twelve in the garden, in recent years, I’ve come to see a pattern in the flowering that …