May 43 minMay Fool's Day, Ice Saints & Frankie Says....The great plant out and sowing seeds directly into the warm soil...just watch out for those Ice Saints.
Apr 93 minApril Notes on Bare Bottoms and Bank Holiday Gardening.It all starts with a packet of seeds and a long weekend.
Apr 33 minGrow, nurture, cut, create, compost and repeat..Spring has Sprung: we’ve had a whiff of a summer’s promise with a spell of warm weather, the polytunnel is filling up with seedlings and...
Mar 12 minMarch Notes on Lions, Lambs and daffodils.Like September, March is another of my pivotal points of the year, the days lengthening, soil beginning to warm and buds swelling.
Jan 173 minJanuary NotesMy top 5 resolves for success on the plots in 2022 This year I am banking on the energy of that optimism and awe, starting the year with...
Nov 5, 20213 minNovember Notes 2021It might not come as much of a surprise to those that know me, that I don’t much hang about to ‘smell the roses’. Rather I am thinking...
Oct 20, 20214 minAugust & September Journal (and a little bit of October...) 2021Happy new gardening year, disappointments, highs of mulching, gardening together and a narcissus obsession.
Oct 17, 20213 minOctober Notes 2021Mulching in the gardens and making life more beautiful in October, inspired by Kettles Yard and natural decorations.
Sep 6, 20213 minSeptember Notes 2021 September musings on the season in the gardens written for Cambridge Edition magazines monthly column.
Aug 11, 20212 minFlower Club - Cutting Dahlias Sessions 2021Flower Club - picking your own dahlias to take home
Jun 7, 20213 minJune 2021 ColumnMidsummer’s night has always been a special magical evening but I do feel a bitter sweet arrival at peak flower.
May 31, 20214 minMay Garden Journal....a change in the wind direction was palpable. We felt the warmth in the air that says ‘summer’.
May 12, 20213 minMay 2021 Column..the task list is not causing palpitations. I have a new regime. Reader, let me share with you the benefit of my new found wisdom.
Mar 5, 20213 minMarch 2021 Column After 20 years of growing plants from seed, I am still really thrilled to see seeds emerge with so much potential and awe. It’s so simple an