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Mr Pug and cobaea
Mr Pug sunbathing with cobaea I’ve been asked for a puggy picture…so here you go. Yesterday was so warm and delicious that I put my little baby cup and saucer vines (Cobaea scandens) out for the first...
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The Apple Garden
My Apple Garden (or as I like to call it, my ‘APPLEYDAPPLEY garden’) has had a bit of a bad deal so far. I’ve only just begun to tackle this part of my space – it’s the bit closest to the house and...
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The prettiest bit of my patch…
Beauty that did it all by itself I write after two solid days of preparing my soil… For What?…(i hear you cry) Well: here’s the thing – I’ve kind of haemorrhaged money on this garden already and...
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Nosy corner: Bergenias on a busy road
Bergenia magic I’ve been thinking about bergenias (above) a lot lately because certain people have been debating them on twitter (Helen Johnstone and Anne Wareham in particular). They’ve never been a...
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Basil smugness
basil (not faulty) The Hunk decided we had to christen his new barbecue tonight. Please note that I had no part in the barbecue buying bonanza…it just arrived at the door one day, in a huge hulking...
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Pug and poshness
If in doubt, use a picture of the pug Sorry, no photos of where I went today, but I’m telling you, the Queen’s garden at Buckingham Palace is one vast sward on top of which (if one is lucky enough)...
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Look what I found!
I’ve been wanting to do a post on found objects since I got here, but today was the day it felt right to do so, because today (oh joy of joys!) I found this: Hi! Who did you belong to, un-loved...
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Sweet Lilacs
I’ve been totally inspired by all the lilacs bursting open this week - Gorgeous lilac loveliness …like so many silky pompoms opening up to scent my never-ending ‘pram outings’… My own recently planted...
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Nosy Corner: Projects begun…and not quite completed
I always love seeing things like this, because I AM this person - …someone who starts something and then looses her oomph… My life used to be littered with the remnants of...
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In my garden this week:
Tulips bursting open A few goings-on…..There’s no text here (but nobody ever reads the words anyway do they?)…just click on the first picture and keep clicking on the arrows….enjoy x Christmas hanging...
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The story so far….
A quick round-up of progress (because I so easily forget) At the end of February we had this: Then after lots of digging with the help of my friend James at Indigo Gardens, my dad and The Hunk, this:...
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Foxy
I spent a couple of hours last week tidying up the front of the house, which hadn’t been touched since we arrived. It’s a funny, triangular-shaped bed, enclosed with very new, very orange brick. I...
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Plant gorgeosity:
Epimedium x youngianum ‘Niveum’ …a little darling and a complete impulse buy the other day, when I was only supposed to be window shopping….makes my heart sing: Epimedium x youngianum 'Niveum'...
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Summer relish
Another rather late post, because your gooseberries will be gone by now, but I wanted to share the gooseberry love, and also the glory of my garden to which I have done precisely NOTHING, and which...
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A Holiday: Part 1
We stayed at Swiss Cottage, Chatsworth. It is idyllic, in every single way. There is a tame duck who likes to be fed very expensive food from Chatsworth Farm Shop. Her name is ‘The Duchess’. There is...
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A Holiday, part 2
We went to Renishaw Hall, home to the Sitwells – a truly fabulous family, with names like Raresby and Sacheverell. I am quite undone by these names and now want to re-name my own boy….I...
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A Holiday, part 3
The perfect sunny day with friends, surrounded by late summer splendour… We went to Haddon Hall, Chatsworth’s enchanting neighbour. The inside is delectable, particularly the Long Gallery, which is...
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September…
When we all suddenly sober up and get organised… My small child has started ‘big school’. She went off without a backward glance and pronounces it ‘good’. She won’t tell me anything else, except what...
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A January Mess…
January is here and I feel like bursting into song. January holds everything for me, that December seems to for the rest of the world; excitement, merriment and good cheer. January is when you can...
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Hippeastrum, up-close
Gratuitous pictures of Hippeastrum…just because. These were planted end of December, and are now doing this, unbelievable stuff in my bedroom…you can find out how to have your own here
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