Notes on growing ornamentals and edibles, and musings on other matters that interest me.
This is a rather strange apple tree. I know it’s an apple tree, because it had a couple of apples on it when we viewed the house we now live in, last November. Unless the sellers managed to glue a …
At the end of March, Kevin & I finally moved into our new, and hopefully long-term, home and garden. Yay! So this is a bit of an introduction to the new garden. It isn’t much now, but it has potential. …
Checking out my plants today, I made a discovery of seedlings. Pulsatilla vulgaris Why is this so exciting? Because all I did was chuck (I mean it, chuck) a few of the fluffy seeds last summer into a container with …
Much of the UK is under snow at the moment, and in the tradition of whenever it snows in the UK, this is my obligatory snow blogpost. It’s short, coz you know, I’m not actually going outside in it! This …
Yes, I know it’s still late winter, but look, Spring is on it’s way in the garden. I have the Sarcococca confusa by the front door and the fragrance is divine. I have a few snowdrops in pots. The first here …
I’m feeling rather seedy. No, not that type of seedy. The growing seeds type of seedy. This week the seeds I ordered from the annual Hardy Plant Society (HPS) Seed Distribution Scheme, arrived. As a member, for only £5 (to cover …