First glimpse of the new garden
As you can imagine, a combination of moving from Sheffield to Penarth, along with managing my health, has meant blogging has been low down on the list of things to do. I’m going to focus on short and sweet blogs …
back garden
Happy ramblings: Rosa ‘Seagull’
When we were leaving our previous house and garden, I took 10 cuttings of my rambling rose, Rosa Seagull. Roses aren’t exactly known for being easy growing plants, and I’d never taken rose cuttings before and wasn’t that hopeful that …
Autumn: Prunus mume ‘Beni-chidori’
The second in my Autumn series, is Prunus mume ‘Beni-chidori’. This is a small (up to 2.5m) upright tree which I’ve planted in a pot. Whilst it’s only about 3 years old now, the idea is that, along with the …
Autumn: Acer palmatum ‘Sango-kaku’
As Autumn is now in full swing, I thought I’d do a short series on some of the plants that I think really shine at this time of the year. First up, Acer palmatum ‘Sango-kaku’, and it most certainly shines! …
Wisteria border: before and after
A year ago, this is what the Wisteria border looked like. What is a Wisteria border you ask… Well, this is now. It’s always good to take before and after photos. You often get caught up in what work you …
Creating a mini forest garden border
For some years I’ve been enamoured of the idea to create a forest garden, an edible and fairly low maintenance way to grow food. It’s only with this garden that I realised that I had the right conditions to finally …
Back garden – the first six months
Back in June I introduced the interim design for the back garden, but I haven’t yet got around to showing you how it looked during the rest of the year. Now it’s the end of the year, it seems like …
An interim design for the new back garden
Work has completed on the back garden and I thought I should introduce the design and how it all looks now. The design for the back garden is not yet fully formed, but like with the front garden, I’d really like …
The new garden
At the end of March, Kevin & I finally moved into our new, and hopefully long-term, home and garden. Yay! So this is a bit of an introduction to the new garden. It isn’t much now, but it has potential. …
Crop rotations for the vegetable beds
It’s February, it’s sunny, at the moment anyway, and I finally feel like the growing season has begun. So I thought it was time to work out what vegetables I plan on growing, and plan the vegetable bed rotations. Garden …