Building a show garden – the Colour Box experience!
For the last few days I’ve had the absolute pleasure of working as a volunteer on the build stage of a show garden at RHS Hampton Court Flower Show. First […]
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Typical
I spent 2 hours carefully watering and feeding everything on the plots Tuesday morning, even getting up at 5am to make sure I wasn’t hogging the tap. It persisted down […]
Prepping for RHS Hampton Court – Hortus Loci
Yesterday was a fabulous day. A training day with Perennial, the charity for whom I’m volunteering at RHS Hampton Court in July. I will be very hard to miss – […]
The Mulberry Experience – Charlotte Russe
Before Fran moved to a Bedfordshire village I’d never eaten a mulberry. Not an unusual thing, I don’t know many people who have. But she has a beautiful specimen in […]
Thwarting greedy beaks
There have been unmistakeable signs – berries on the ground and then the surreptitious waddle-past, eyeing up the potential for another raid. Word was going back to Pigeon HQ that […]
Birds do it, bees do it…
But right now and most visibly, it’s the ladybirds. Everywhere. And it’s a welcome sight – I have red blister mite on the redcurrants, black aphids on black currants and […]
Clad all in gladness
I had a LOT of fun on the weekend – Catherine’s bought a house with a garden so overgrown that you couldn’t see it has a (knackered) Datsun parked in […]
It starts with seeds: it ends with trees
I was warned. I was told in no uncertain terms at the beginning of my seedaholism that ‘It starts with seeds, and it ends with trees’. And so it has […]
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