Gwenfar's Garden and other musings
Notes on growing ornamentals and edibles, and musings on other matters that interest me.
Gwenfar We often make journeys between Sheffield and Cambridge to visit Kevin’s mum. It just so happens that along this route, the A1, sits Easton Walled Garden. We had visited in late Spring 2013, so this was our second visit to …
At the beginning of last July, 2013 that is, I mentioned that I was going to experiment with trying to grow an Alpine Wall. After recently purchasing some more alpines for my wall and having planted them out, I realised …
Hot and dry for much of the month, July saw the perennials and kitchen garden really take off. My Solanum crispum ‘Glasnevin’ (green leaves starting to take over the fence on the right) went mad and Kevin thankfully added more wire …
It’s hard to resist a walled garden. Well, I cannot, anyway. Just the idea of a walled garden, a place of adventure and beauty. All very ‘Secret Garden‘. Kevin & I wanted a day out, Kevin wanted to visit the …
Last week we visited Clumber Park Walled Kitchen Garden, which happens to be not far from us here in Sheffield, being on the edge of Nottinghamshire & South Yorkshire near Worksop. I’ll let the pictures to the talking. Well, mainly, a …
The garden at the end of June June saw the garden mostly get along without me, as I had other things that took up my time for much of the month. I guess the attention in previous months helped as …