Gwenfar's Garden and other musings
Notes on growing ornamentals and edibles, and musings on other matters that interest me.
In recent posts I’ve mainly been blogging about gardens to visit and Spoonie Veg, so I thought it was time to do a general update of the garden. Kitchen garden In my small kitchen garden I’ve kept to my decision …
After publishing my introduction to Spoonie Veg post, I received some really interesting and helpful perspectives from readers, both on my blog and in Twitter conversations. One thing that came out of this was that I realised a post on …
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 …
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 …