... sits at the highest point of the garden (if there's a strong north wind and I stand on tiptoe, I can get mobile reception up here. Sometimes). It is here that I run to when the weather is inclement. It is here that I take my breaks - if it's too hot inside, I'll … Continue reading The Greenhouse …
English Country Garden
The Rock Border
In the long borders, alliums have taken over mass-flowering duty from the tulips; and fine and dandy they look too. They have multiplied tremendously in the two and a half years since I planted them. Fine by me - I shall lift some and use elsewhere. But the long borders are in need of a … Continue reading The Rock Border
Sheesh. I Don’t Know Why I Bother
I was delighted to read on the excellent Hazeltree blog recently that a pair of robins were nesting on a shelf, in a shed. Behind a couple of pots of paint. Actually, no I wasn't. I wasn't delighted at all. I was spitting tacks. Would you credit it? A couple of years ago, I made … Continue reading Sheesh. I Don’t Know Why I Bother
"I’m So Excited ….
and I just can't hide it, I'm about to lose control and I think I like it" So now I know what the Pointer Sisters were so excited about. Like me, they'd obviously realised that their Crambe cordifolia was about to flower for the first time. I planted mine out last year, hoping against … Continue reading "I’m So Excited ….
Priory Beauties
Over in the meadow, the first Camassia quamash has flowered. I planted 200 of these small bulbs last autumn so this better not be the only one. (Or else there'll be trouble). Very pretty, I think and a little startling when I first saw it. I really like Aquilegia. Does anyone not? A few years … Continue reading Priory Beauties
Tomatoes and Tree Peonies
I've been spending so much time mowing, edging and weeding that it was satisfying to do some planting the other day and tick off a job on my ever-growing To-Do-List. It's been unseasonably hot and after mid-morning it's been difficult to work in the greenhouse without melting into a little puddle. However, having put up … Continue reading Tomatoes and Tree Peonies
It Blooms and It Blooms
Years ago, my partner Jim (his real name) and I went to Northumberland and stayed in a very, very remote cottage for a week. We took with us our young weimaraner, Hobbes. She was in doggy heaven; tremendously long walks over the hills, snoozes by the aga and haring around the large garden flushing out … Continue reading It Blooms and It Blooms
The Anxious Gardener 