Gwenfar's Garden and other musings
Notes on growing ornamentals and edibles, and musings on other matters that interest me.
Is this the year when I will finally have my first, edible fruits, from my Quince tree? Now that it has finally flowered, Quince watch has officially begun. My Cydonia oblonga ‘Serbian’ (also known as ‘Leskovac’) is now about 6 years …
Now that a majority of the boxes have been unpacked and we can now effectively cook in the kitchen, I thought it was time to introduce the new garden here in Sheffield… Front garden Back garden As you can see, …
This is the final post in this series of blogs on the front garden. I started the series in January and am now almost full circle. It’s been interesting experience photographing and blogging about the front garden throughout the year …
The front garden definitely has an autumn-winter feel. Mainly winter, since autumn passed us by. Though so did summer, and much of spring. Maybe it’s just been one long winter for the last year?! The garden hasn’t had much attention …
2nd August 2012 So, anyone notice the slight change to the title of these posts? I’m clearly struggling to always publish on the 1st day of the month, so decided changing the title was better than apologising yet again, for …
1st July 2012 The front garden has grown up a lot since we last visited it, back at the beginning of May. June was missed as I was on holidays then and when I got back, work rather took over. …
Yes. I know. It’s not the 1st of the month. It’s not even the 2nd or 3rd. In fact, it’s a month since I last blogged. Mmmm. Well, you see… Actually, you don’t want to read about me being very …
March was such a warm month and subsequently plants really started taking off so that by the first of April, the front garden is much more lush than that of March. The broad beans have taken off fantastically, and in …
The first of March. February, gosh, February, what a month. The weather went from deep freeze to being almost able to wear t-shirts. Only almost. I’ve never become quite British enough that I start stripping the moment the sun comes …
For 2012 I am going to blog about my front garden on the 1st day of each month. I’ll follow how it changes over the year, how much food I can produce from the space, and how my development plans …