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 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...
Oct 25, 20212 minEarly Autumn and celebrations 2021.A wonderful month of classes and work in the gardens with events all over Cambridge.
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.
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 3, 20213 minApril Garden JournalPosing in the propagating tunnel, my favourite office. As I write this a few weeks later, there is standing room only as we juggle the...
Mar 24, 20212 minMarch Garden Journal The soil is warming up and growth is rapid but still the garden is only just waking from the winter slumber...
Jan 31, 20211 minWinter JournalA season of two parts. Cissy of Wildstems and I had a fantastic festive frenzy of collecting foliage, packing up kits, and running...
Oct 31, 20204 minOctober Garden JournalIntense and record breaking rain fall aside, it’s been a great month here on the plots. I have been looking forward to the time when we...
Sep 29, 20202 minSeptember Garden JournalThe gardens really peak in September and I love all the different materials I can work with. Our ‘Flower Therapy’ Buckets and Bouquets...