Three jobs for the Weekend

The great plant out and sowing seeds directly into the warm soil...just watch out for those Ice Saints.

It all starts with a packet of seeds and a long weekend.

Like September, March is another of my pivotal points of the year, the days lengthening, soil beginning to warm and buds swelling.

February in the garden, shoots, scented flowers and planting roses.

My 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...

In the low cool light, I look to evergreens and bright red from berries, shiny honesty paper pods and dried grasses.

It 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...

This month, the gardens are a raft in unpredictable waters.

July is a lovely pause in the year. As if I needed an excuse to spend the month in the hammock....

Midsummer’s night has always been a special magical evening but I do feel a bitter sweet arrival at peak flower.

..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.

...we are waiting for something. But it’s during these days that life is actually happening.

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

So we have rested; truly rested now whilst in the midst of another Lockdown. With frozen or wet ground, we have had little else to do bar...

With winter mists suspended over fields and frosty cobwebs hanging between mournful seed heads and grasses, the ground frozen beneath...

Evergreens bought into the home symbolise light through the darkness and with such in the short days this month, I will ........

November arrives almost with a sigh of relief, a little pause for thought and reflection. By now, almost certainly we will have had a...