Notes on growing ornamentals and edibles, and musings on other matters that interest me.
Even on an overcast day, the Peak District never disappoints. We decided to venture further south into the White Peak part of the District to explore part of the Dovedale area. It’s an area that’s decidedly peaky with it’s pointy …
Our annual snowdrop pilgrimage saw us to return to Hodsock Priory this year (last year we visited Colesbourne Park), bringing our friends J-P and Kate with us. Although it was a rather cloudy overcast day and bitterly cold, this didn’t …
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 …
I faced a choice today. I could be taken on a drive through the Peak District in the sun, or I could go to the Hardy Plant Society (HPS) talk tonight. I didn’t have enough spoons to do both. I …
In the last few weeks I’ve ignored the blog, because I’ve been working on a permaculture garden design for my friends J-P and Kate. I completed my Certificate in Permaculture Design back in 2010. I undertook a couple of small …
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 …