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 [...]
Category Archives: Recipes
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 [...]
ravishing….
July 29, 2011 – 9:17 am
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 perfect posy
June 3, 2011 – 12:56 pm
Forgive me…I know I shouldn’t but the babety gave this to me yesterday She chose and picked everything herself and my mother held the tiny bottle so that she could arrange the flowers. It’s quite the most perfect posy I’ve ever received….but then I am a mother, and as a breed, well, we’re utterly blind [...]
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 [...]
A quick spring posy….
April 5, 2011 – 1:47 pm
March Nirvana
March 30, 2011 – 8:32 am
When I saw these, my first snakeshead fritillaries growing in the long grass at the side of my ‘lawn’ (such as it is) I nearly took all my clothes off and ran round the garden screaming. I’d always grown these in pots (because, obviously they are must-have plants) but they’re SUPPOSED to live in the [...]
