Over the last five years, as I’ve gotten to know the garden a little bit and gained confidence, there are a few plants that are rock stars. These are the ‘good doers.’ The ones that keep coming back. The ones you can move and they couldn’t care less. The ones that produce a tonne of…
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This page is my best attempt at a sketch of the whole garden. I find having this pretty helpful now. If I compartmentalise each section I can get around it all in endless happy loops. When we first moved in I took a tour with the owner we were buying the house from. A fantastic…
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This is the first year in the garden when I’ve truly wondered what clematis I have. It sounds a bit mad, but there are maybe half a dozen clematis here and I don’t know what most of them are. This leads to pruning quandaries and for the first time looking back through dozens of pictures…
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This made me chuckle this morning. I think next year I will plant tulip bulbs in a less windy spot. Maybe something a little more hunkered down for these tubs… any suggestions?
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A note on how robust nature can be: I’m so happy this little Witch Hazel was looking so bonny this Winter. The image below is from about a year ago. He’s in there, but you can’t see him, just a twig. He was squashed completely flat when this wall tumbled. These ancient dry stone walls…
Read MoreHave you mulched yet? The only time you can throw around a load of muck and everything looks better afterwards!
Any shrubs keeled over this Winter? It’s time for boggle eyed bush man!
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It was so windy last weekend and freezing cold. We didn’t get up to much in the garden aside from a bit of weeding. Instead we turned to indoor projects, which includes sewing seeds that don’t germinate, murdering houseplants and now a new hobby: orchid flasking! Since I started writing this I’ve realised that the…
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Last year I really got into the swing of moving things around and dividing plants. Only the easier stuff of course, but it paid dividends and although I wasn’t terribly confident it did seem very easy and it worked. I would love to trot down to the garden centre every other week, but once I…
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No, no, no it will be -4 overnight apparently and I went and put all the Dhalia tubers in. The ones that don’t like cold and you are supposed to dig up every year and wrap in little blankets and keep in the potting shed. I always do this. I have no patience and just…
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We have two really well established Nepeta (Cat Mint) plants either side of our front door that go wild every year and cover everything within a meter radius. The problem is Spring in this garden border. Once the Nepeta is cut back, there’s just a messy bald patch that was a mass of flowers for…
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