Notes on growing ornamentals and edibles, and musings on other matters that interest me.
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 …
Having visited Hodsock Priory on the weekend (mid February), where they not only have a woodland carpeted with snowdrops, but also an ornamental garden, it reminded me of just how many plants are flowering in late winter. So I thought …
At the moment I have two blogs. This is my 10+ year gardening blog but I’ve also set up a permaculture/solarpunk blog on the new blogging site, Plume. Hopefully once Plume develops more features I’ll be able to move off …
Bosco Verticale, Milan. Credit Ale Desiderio. This has been cross-posted from my Plume Solarpunk blog. If you are new to solarpunk as I am, it might help to have some descriptions of what solarpunk means. So here are a few …
L-R: Broad bean, Fennel and Pumpkin seeds Last updated (sources section): 23rd April 2025. It’s the time of year (in the Northern hemisphere) when everyone starts going through the shiny seed catalogues and then get tempted by all the new …
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 …
There hasn’t been a lot of blogging going on recently. Once again, it’s because the ME is bad and most things are a struggle, and unfortunately blogging goes down the bottom of the to do list. However, I have managed …