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 [...]
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 pearls…. It just turned chilly enough for me to wish I was on the beach wearing a bikini. …and mint is THE thing to evoke the freshness of summer. Here’s how to have it over the winter. You need: 1 mint plant (do you already have one? You probably think it’s died…It [...]
All of us…(oh, not you then…?) okay, but MOST of us have one of these thingys lying around…. a wire cake stand, that is… After the initial ‘ooooh, that’s purdy, I’ll so USE that for all the, CUPCAKES I make!’, mine ended up in a cupboard just TAKING UP SPACE. So I thought I’d [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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