Gwenfar's Garden and other musings
Notes on growing ornamentals and edibles, and musings on other matters that interest me.
Cornus alba ‘Elegantissima’ each end, with the darker Cornus alba ‘Kesselringii’ in the middle I am making a gentle start to the gardening year with pruning my Cornus (dogwood). Noticing yesterday that the new leaves on my Cornus was already …
As 2015 draws to a close, like many garden bloggers I have been reflecting on the past year in the garden. As a garden blogger who gardens with a chronic illness, ME, it could be easy to focus upon all …
This is a follow-up of my post at the end of November, on my new hobby of pressing flowers and foliage. I checked how the pressings were going a week ago (all fine) and yesterday I completed process of adding …
It started with a Tweet. The above tweet in fact from Caro Shrives @UrbanVegPatch, last Saturday. Actually, it started before that even. In my last post I talked about having to face some hard facts about how much more I …
Helianthus ‘Velvet Queen’ It’s never easy when something is staring you in the face that you are doing your best to ignore. It doesn’t matter where you turn, it’s there telling you it’s time to face some hard facts. The …
There are times when having ME can really get me down. Lately not only have I not been blogging much, I’m not gardening much, and I’ve even had to hire someone to help out in the garden a bit. I …
The eagle-eyed among you may have noticed that there wasn’t a June #GardeningWithME post, and that in general, I’ve not been blogging quite so much. Geranium Ann Folkard next to my garlic crop When you garden with ME or another …
The strawberries are flowering well Back in January I talked about planning the kitchen garden year. I thought that it would be good for me to do an update, looking at what I said then and how things have panned …
May is ME Awareness Month with a particular focus on Sunday 10 to Saturday 16 May being ME Awareness Week. I blog occasionally about Gardening with ME and this week I have been tweeting some of the impacts having ME has …
New outdoor chair Last October, as I was contemplating the impact weather has on my energy levels, blogger VP, over at Veg Plotting, suggested having somewhere close to the house to sit where I could look at the garden even …