Have you mulched yet? The only time you can throw around a load of muck and everything looks better afterwards!
Garden Heroes
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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The Garden
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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Bushman
Any shrubs keeled over this Winter? It’s time for boggle eyed bush man!
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Orchid Flasking
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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Divide and Conquer
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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Freeze
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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Hellebores
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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I’m making this a ‘no dig’ garden, because every time I do any digging I have to go to the chiropractor!
Bareroot Planting
The latest thing to have a go at on my list of gardening projects. I like the idea of bareroot season. The plants are so much cheaper and there are a tonne to pick from. I went for Blackthorn for sloes (and sloe gin obviously) and a wild looking rose called Red Leaf. I bought…
Read MoreA Little Bit Vegan
It’s all going a little bit vegan! Much like lots of other houses up and down the UK we’ve had an almost imperceptible shift leaning towards eating less meat. Once this starts you can’t help but find yourself seeking out veggie recipes and therefore vegan recipes too with never heard of before vegan ingredients like…
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Wellies by the Door 