Gwenfar's Garden and other musings
Notes on growing ornamentals and edibles, and musings on other matters that interest me.
Now we’ve had some proper Spring weather, with warmer temperatures and sunny days, the colour is taking off. First up is my favourite crocus, C. tommasinianus ‘Whitewell Purple’. In the sun it shimmers, and attracts the bees who feast on …
Spectacular sunset from our front garden As you can see, we experienced a pretty amazing sunset on the evening of 29th December. Going by the ‘red sky at night’ maxim, we were hoping for a good day the next day. …
June saw my BFF from Melbourne, Kerri, over in the UK with her sister Sharon. They hired a cottage in Broadway, the Cotswolds for three weeks, and we joined them for part of that time. In between ME resting, and …
Purple. It’s my favourite colour. And I love it’s different shades, from lilac to aubergine, blue-purple, pink purple and deep purple. Here are some of the many purples reigning in my garden from Spring to early Summer. Allium hollandicum ‘Purple …
The head of the harbour at Solva We recently spent about 9 days down in Solva, Pembrokeshire. Solva is only a few miles away from St David’s and it’s a quiet and sweet little village. We stayed at Caswell House, …
Our recent holiday was in Pembrokeshire, but on the way there we stopped at one of my favourite places, Llanthony Priory (Welsh: Priordy Llanddewi Nant Hodni), in the Black Mountains, between Hay-on-Wye and Abergavenny. It was a day with really …
Earlier in September we visited Trentham Gardens in Staffordshire. I didn’t get around to blogging about it due to lack of energy. Since then, Jessica over at Rusty Duck has also visited the gardens, and blogged! As her blog is …
In the now 5 years I’ve lived in Sheffield, somehow I’ve managed to not visit the Sheffield Botanical Gardens in early summer before. Quite remiss of me, and clearly, quite a lot I’ve been missing. Always, my favourite part of …
The last few evenings have been quite beautiful here in Sheffield; summer at the edge of the Peak District. I’ve found the way the evening sun lit up some of my plants to have been quite breathtaking. I’m not sure …
Winter garden In the past I’ve only ever visited Anglesey Abbey in winter. In my opinion, it has the best winter garden I’ve ever seen; I’ve blogged about this previously. On a trip to Cambridge last weekend to visit Kevin’s …