My new book, Sweet Peas for Summer is in the SHOPS, so I thought I’d do a little recipe in its honour I’ve been wanting arches in my garden for quite some time now, (for sweet pea frolics and in order to satisfy my climbing rose fetish) and I’ve been holding back mainly because I [...]
Category Archives: Recipes
An Easter Nest
March 21, 2012 – 8:43 pm
I love nests I am the nesting type. Around this time of year I can usually be found fashioning things to hold eggs…chocolate or otherwise. I recently spied this lovely thing on the Marfa Stewart website. I had pussy willow (because I always end up buying it at this time of year)…and my old, dried, [...]
Something to soothe
March 1, 2012 – 11:05 am
February bells
February 22, 2012 – 1:02 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 [...]
Honeysuckle, but not as you know it
December 7, 2011 – 7:00 pm
Plant eulogy alert: This is Lonicera x purpusii ‘Winter beauty’ (Winter honeysuckle). It’s flowering right now, and has been since the middle of November. Last year it came out at the beginning of January #weirdweather It is quite the most exquisite thing when it’s flowering…these fairy pale cream flowers (usually covered with frost) and the [...]
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
