I love watching the seasons come and go and you can really see this happening quite fast in the garden now as the late summer flowering plants begin to explode into colour – those fantastic eye-catching reds you can’t miss of the Crocosmias and Heleniums. Rudbeckias and Sunflowers are starting to flower too and Sedums […]
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Gardening Tips: July 2015
July casts a magic spell over gardens, so that no matter how neglected or sorry a bit of earth is, it’s sure now to be bursting with poppies and daisies and all kinds of colourful midsummer flowers. I love to see a surprise sunflower shoot up in the borders! As the mad summer growth fills […]
Gardening Tips: June 2015
This last month has been beautiful – I have enjoyed walks in bluebell woods nearby and admired the Rhododendrons at Stody Lodge Gardens, so many amazing colours and scents and so much promise of the season to come. Summer is finally here, bringing with it warmer temperatures and longer evenings. I have enjoyed watching the […]
Gardening Tips: May 2015
Warmer mornings filled with sunshine are what I’ve been longing for and the chorus of lawn mowers is a reminder that the grass cutting season has begun! Walking out into the garden you can find Paeony flower buds the size of golf balls, bleeding hearts shyly flowering away and the beds and borders springing to […]
Gardening Tips: August 2014
As the evenings are now pulling in, there are whispers in the garden of autumn arriving but we still have plenty of daylight and warmth to keep gardening pleasurable in this last month of summer. You will not be short of company either, as the mild winter and the bounteous summer have provided for more […]