…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 [...]
Category Archives: One-pot Wonder
Something to soothe
March 1, 2012 – 11:05 am
February bells
February 22, 2012 – 1:02 pm
Desperate measures
February 11, 2012 – 6:10 pm
A swamp for George
January 29, 2012 – 11:09 am
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 [...]
Comforts
January 23, 2012 – 9:41 am
This lovely thing is soothing my heartstrings right now. I made it in October last year, having bought rather too many hellebores. I wish I had made more – it’s one of those all-year-round pots to which you do precisely nothing, and it sits around looking gorgeous in spite of that. Bruised, sober, ever so [...]
Post-party paperwhites
December 6, 2011 – 8:00 am
More bulbs, I know, but hey, this is seasonal stuff…and I’m not going to argue with that. I usually put a load of paperwhites (little daffodils, highly scented and prepared to flower indoors over the winter) into containers in late October for Christmas blooming, but, as with the rest of what I’ve been doing this [...]
Take back your mint…
December 2, 2011 – 2:16 pm
Cyclamen wedding cake
November 18, 2011 – 2:39 pm
