Remember Chelsea? I’ve been meaning to do a few blogs about doing Chelsea at home but, like the British summer, I am slow at getting into gear this year… A few stand-out things have stayed with me since Chelsea, and they won’t go away. I think this is an excellent marker of VERY GOOD STUFF. [...]
I love slow things. Here’s something I made almost a year ago, when I was rushing around being very un-slow, filming stuff for telly. Succulent off-sets, pinched off and squidged into the gritty-compost-filled frog of a brick. (You can get the recipe here). It was done in haste (and many, many times over, because that’s [...]
I’ve been meaning to do a quick update on the swamp I made for George back in January. Suffice to say, George is comfortable. Here it was in January: Also, late to the billion dollar party, I know, but I am finally having a love affair with Instagram (although I do want [...]
Just a quick one to show you those bunny tails I planted with Babety way back when. …Yet another illustration of the fact that plants will pretty much grow, no matter what you do, or DON’T do to them. ..by which I mean: that the seeds were less scattered than plonked that the watering was [...]
…She hasn’t space for bushes…so instead she wall-trains them. …It takes a while…. These have been here for as long as I can remember – (the pink one was given to my mother at the birth of my older brother)….What I’m trying to say is that they’re older than ME. I don’t remember them ever [...]
Never parTICularly been one for an ‘erbal infusion’ (unless it’s lemon verbena or peppermint) I’m far more likely to munch leaves or a flower in a salad… or cover it with sugar and put it on a cake… … but stuff’s wee bit stressy at the moment, and I went out to pick [...]
Muscari (Grape Hyacinth) are out in the shops right now. You should plant bulbs in autumn and LOTS of them…in which case you could do a lot worse than create a river like this one at Keukenhof (oh to see that one day). But for those of us with a little less space, they are [...]
I don’t tend actively to involve my daughter too much in my gardening – Children command all your attention, and I am not Dawn Isaac…(although I’m trying…very, VERY hard to be). But I had one of those desperate moments the other day – the sort where you have to kill 30 minutes, and every toy [...]
Soleirolia soleirolii – the perfect bathroom plant. I’ve been using these lovely creeping emerald droplet-leaves for years now, both indoors and out. Outside, they do this tight-knit, softening thing – the leaves are slightly tougher and darker, and none the worse for that. I long to take a machete to the cement between my paving [...]
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