This weird warmth highlights the fact that temperature has nothing to do with my feeling iffy at this time of year…it’s all about light levels. So here is another better-making series of things, for when you’re feeling a bit Novemberish. This time I’ll be adding some non-planty stuff to each post…because there are things I [...]
Category Archives: One-pot Wonder
Scent for a rainy day…
November 4, 2011 – 2:02 pm
A big basket of hyacinths, for those prepared to play the long game…Normally you’d be doing this in September for Christmas blooms, but, well, I forgot…and at any rate, who needs MORE stuff at Christmas? – It’s the bleakness of January and February I want hyacinths for. You need: Hyacinth bulbs (available now, but selling [...]
Sexy salad…after.
October 10, 2011 – 8:35 am
My beautiful nasturtiums which I sowed in window boxes back in June and have been glorifying my very boring side return for months now got trampled by something or someone yesterday, and I suddenly realised I hadn’t posted a photo of the ‘finished product’, so to speak. Luckily, I had taken some a few weeks [...]
Sexy salad
June 10, 2011 – 3:35 pm
I’ve got the drabbest, emptiest, saddest side return ever. I was going to make it over for Love Your Garden but stuff happened, and the idea was scrapped. I’ve decided to do it anyway, but not right now….right now I’m going to fill the troughs that I had ready for the transformation, and because I [...]
Something for the weekend
June 3, 2011 – 2:08 pm
Perhaps it’s the weird weather but everything in the garden centres seems so have gone over so badly that it’s beyond useable. Not good news if you want to do something gorgeous to your window-box or terrace this weekend, unless, that is, you go for something that looks fabulous all the time. Sempervivums are just [...]
A promise, kept
May 20, 2011 – 8:25 pm
Back at the beginning of the year, I planted a pot of little alpines to make me feel better, and I promised to post a photo of it when it had flowered…Here it is. Here’s the before shot….no less pretty methinks…. …and the plant list: Jasione laevis ‘Blue Light’ Ajuga reptans ‘Braun Herz’ Sedum ‘Cappa [...]
Better-making things 2: A six-pack in a pot
February 1, 2011 – 2:00 pm
Here’s the perfect pot for January – a little sea of perfection with the promise of tiny blooms. I love picking up an alpine six-pack from the garden centre. Making this pot was the first bit of gardening I did after the horror. It helped, somehow. Gorgeous, even without flowers… To make a little [...]
One-pot-wonder: An October offering (not pansies)
October 10, 2010 – 7:27 pm
A september offering
September 5, 2010 – 6:27 pm
A July pot, made from left-overs
July 14, 2010 – 11:28 am
This was the result of my terrible habit of buying sad-looking plants that nobody wants. The nicotiana was about to flower – the leaves were all torn and it was therefore reduced (I like anything reduced) and the lobelia had suffered from having missed the garden centre spray a few too many times and was [...]
