Yesterday was a beautiful day. Yesterday The Babety woke at 6.30am rather than 5am. Yesterday I was not giving a ‘talk’.* Yesterday my Rosa ‘Scentimental’ came out. Yesterday I went to this seriously yummy NGS garden opening. I’m going to declare and interest here. Jenny and Ricky Raworth’s garden is one of my favourite gardens [...]
Everybody! – how beautiful is this tree? I know the roses sort of don’t look real but I promise you it’s a genuWINE photo. Someone has let this gorgeous bright scarlet rambler rose romp up their tree, and it looks like the whole plant IS a rose. One of those serendipitous things that happen, because [...]
It’s hard not to notice those tumbling racemes all over the place right now. Of course I MUST have one instantly, and it must be like this one above which happens to be at Hermannshof in Germany. Unfortunately I don’t have this kind of meandering woodland walk experience, so I decided (in my infinite silliness) [...]
I always love seeing things like this, because I AM this person – …someone who starts something and then looses her oomph… My life used to be littered with the remnants of Grand-Plans-Begun-But-Not-Finished. Then someone very clever and wise told me that it’s not the finishing that counts, it’s the having fun doing it, and [...]
I’ve been thinking about bergenias (above) a lot lately because certain people have been debating them on twitter (Helen Johnstone and Anne Wareham in particular). They’ve never been a must-have plant for me, but then today I was walking home from the tube with the pram (not something I attempt every day, a trip on [...]
An early morning walk yesterday..and three hanging baskets. Look familiar? – I’ve had quite a few that looked like this over the years. The thing about hanging baskets, and the reason they so often end up like these ones, is that they’re really hard to water. Even if you water them every other day say [...]
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HAPPY EASTER! It’s a jungle in there…. It’s still raining (yawn) but our house is still so full of boxes from the move, that we get cabin fever and have to get out. The babety wakes between 5am and 6.30am, and this morning the three of us were trudging the streets looking for somewhere to [...]
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