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.
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...
Dec 6, 20213 minDecember Notes 2021In the low cool light, I look to evergreens and bright red from berries, shiny honesty paper pods and dried grasses.
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...
Jul 21, 20212 minJuly Notes 2021July is a lovely pause in the year. As if I needed an excuse to spend the month in the hammock....
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 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.
Apr 6, 20213 minApril 2021 Column...we are waiting for something. But it’s during these days that life is actually happening.
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
Feb 7, 20213 minFebruary 2021 Column 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...
Jan 6, 20213 minJanuary 2021 ColumnWith winter mists suspended over fields and frosty cobwebs hanging between mournful seed heads and grasses, the ground frozen beneath...
Dec 2, 20203 minDecember 2020 ColumnEvergreens bought into the home symbolise light through the darkness and with such in the short days this month, I will ........
Nov 24, 20203 minNovember 2020 ColumnNovember arrives almost with a sigh of relief, a little pause for thought and reflection. By now, almost certainly we will have had a...